Safran Helicopter Engines

Bernard Claude Pons

Laurent Pierre Tarnowski

Alphonse Puerto

Loïs Pierre Denis Vive

A turboshaft engine for an air-craft including a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber and an expansion turbine; a power turbine rotating a power take-off by a reduction gear; a heat exchanger including a first circuit and a second circuit. The compressor includes a first shaft rotated by a second shaft of the expansion turbine by a trans-mission mechanism, the transmission mechanism and the reduc-tion gear forming part of a gearbox which is arranged axially at a front end of the turboshaft engine, such that the compressor is arranged axially between the gearbox and the power turbine.

Recovered-cycle turboshaft engine

Aircraft turbomachine including a centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber, the combustion chamber being supplied by the compressor via a diffuser and via a straightener, and a heat exchanger, the exchanger including a first circuit, supplied with exhaust gas from the turbomachine, and a second circuit, which are connected by volutes on the one hand to an outlet of the diffuser and on the other hand to an inlet of the straightener, the volutes having reversed winding directions such that their connection ports to the exchanger are independent of one another and are substantially diametrically opposed, and such that the minimum cross section of each duct is situated at a larger cross section of the other duct.

Recovered-cycle aircraft turbomachine

An aircraft turbomachine having a centrifugal compressor, an annular combustion chamber, an annular casing extending around the chamber and delimiting an annular space (E) in which the chamber is situated, and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can include a first circuit supplied with exhaust gas from the turbomachine, and a second circuit connected by first and second volutes respectively to an outlet of the compressor and to the annular space. The first and second volutes can be positioned at an axial distance from one another, and the second volute can be connected to the annular space by a straightener which is situated at least in part outside the casing and which is integrated into an annular connecting pipe which connects the second volute to this casing.

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MOISSY-CRAMAYEL, France

Bernard Claude Pons