United Technologies Corporation

Gknaerospace Sweden Ab

Daryl B Mountz

Glenn Levasseur

Theodore W Kapustka

Johan Ockborn

Joakim Berglund

Bengt Pettersson

Marcus Borg

Anders Svahn

James B Hoke

Robert M Sonntag

Howard Olsen

A turbine exhaust case has an outer housing to be secured within a gas turbine engine and a central hub. Struts extend between the outer housing and the central hub. The struts are formed at least in part of a first material. The central hub is formed at least in part of a second material.

High durability turbine exhaust case

A low emissions combustor can 18 for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a louvered combustor liner 24 with three arrays of dilution holes 52, 54, 56. The first hole array comprises twelve equally sized, equiangularly distributed holes that penetrates the liner about midway along its axial length. The second hole array comprises twelve equally sized holes, smaller than the holes of the first array, that penetrate the liner a predetermined distance aft of the first hole array. The holes of the second array are equiangularly distributed and each second hole is circumferentially aligned with a first hole. A third hole array penetrates the liner a predefined distance aft of the first array. The third holes are nonuniformly sized and nonequiangularly distributed to regulate the spatial temperature profile of combustion gases exiting the combustor can. The quantity, size, distribution and location of the holes mitigates undesirable exhaust emissions without affecting the performance or durability of the engine. Accordingly, the combustor can may be used to replace an existing combustor can in an older generation gas turbine engine.

Low emissions can combustor with dilution hole arrangement for a turbine

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Daryl B Mountz