General Electric Company

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Jeffrey Douglas Rambo

Brandon Wayne Miller

Arthur William Sibbach

Scott Alan Schimmels

Daniel Alan Niergarth

William Dwight Gerstler

Thomas Kupiszewski

Bhaskar Nanda Mondal

Robert Proctor

Nicolas Kristopher Sabo

Jared Matthew Wolfe

Scott Gregory Edens

Rajesh Kumar

Arnab Sen

Timothy Richard DePuy

Steven B Morris

Gregory Michael Petrasko

Daniel Jason Erno

Steven Douglas Johnson

Michael Thomas Kenworthy

Kirk Douglas Gallier

Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock

Ramon Martinez

Paul Alexander Intemann

Robert R Rachedi

Christopher Charles Glynn

Alan Roy Stuart

Aaron Michael Dziech

Craig Alan Gonyou

Kevin Robert Feldmann

David Alan Frey

William Joseph Bowden

Alexander Martin Sener

Nicholas Taylor Moore

Arvind Namadevan

James Fitzgerald Bonar

Matthew Thomas Beyer

Emily Rosette Clark

Victor Moreno Patan

Vaibhav M Deshmukh

Sushilkumar Shevakari

Michael John Simonetti

Eric Barre

Rakshit Tirumala

Leonardo Aguilar Willys

Curt Edward Hogan

Michael Stephen Popp

Ravindra Shankar Ganiger

David Raju Yamarthi

Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun

Donald Michael Corsmeier

John Alan Manteiga

Patrick Michael Marrinan

Scott Hunter

Brian Gene Brzek

Nathan Evan McCurdy Gibson

Erich Alois Krammer

Narendra Anand Hardikar

John Carl Glessner

David Marion Ostdiek

Curtis Walton Stover

Raymond Floyd Martell

Brian Lewis Devendorf

James Michael Kostka

Mark David Durbin

Justin Paul Smith

Matthew Robert Cerny

Neil Richard Garrigan

Andrew J Martin

Vinod Shashikant Chaudhari

Michael Joseph Murray

Pradeep Hemant Sangli

Robert Jon McQuiston

Joel Francis Kirk

Kevin Edward Hinderliter

David Perveiler

Julius John Montgomery

Santosh Kumar Potnuru

Bradley Willis Fintel

Erich R Fitzpatrick

John William Moores

Tarun Sharma

Hari Shanker Thakur

Brian Gregg Feie

Alex William Ariapad

Ryan T Roehm

Efren Souza Chavez

Tajinder Singh

Matthew Ryan Johns

Nicholas Allan Wilson

Bryan Jung Woo Hong

Sridhara Rao Venkata Mittapalli

Michal Starzynski

Yu-Liang Lin

Ryan James Matthys

Sarah Anne Edwards

Siddhartha Pal

An electric propulsion system includes a fan rotor assembly having a first fan portion and a second fan portion. A fan cowling defines a first flow passage and a second flow passage. An electric drive mechanism drives the fan rotor assembly. An electric drive cooling system includes a liquid coolant that provides cooling to at least a part of the electric drive mechanism, and a heat exchanger through which the liquid coolant flows is arranged within the second flow passage. The first fan portion provides a first flow of air through the first flow passage to provide at least one of a lifting force or a thrust force to the electric propulsion system, and the second fan portion provides a second flow of air through the second flow passage to provide a flow of cooling air therethrough that is in thermal communication with the heat exchanger.

Electric propulsion system for a flight vehicle

A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (L), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.

Gas turbine engine having a heat exchanger located in an annular duct

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan and a turbo-engine having a combustor that combusts compressed air and fuel to generate combustion gases and a power turbine coupled to a shaft for driving the fan. The gas turbine engine includes a direct contact condenser for condensing steam in a first flow into liquid water droplets and to generate a second flow including the liquid water droplets, a water tank for collecting the liquid water droplets of the second flow, and a water pump for introducing the liquid water droplets from the water tank into the direct contact condenser to act as condensation nuclei for the steam in the first flow. The first flow is an exhaust-vapor flow extracted from the combustion gases and the second flow is an exhaust-condensate flow from the direct contact condenser.

Turbine engine including a condenser system

A turbine engine for an aircraft including a turbo-engine, a fan having a fan shaft coupled to the turbo-engine, and a steam system. The steam system is fluidly coupled to a core air flow path at a plurality of steam injection locations to selectively inject steam into the core air flow path at each of the plurality of steam injection locations, using a steam flow control valve. The plurality of steam injection locations include (i) an upstream steam injection location located to inject steam into the core air flow path at a primary combustion zone of a combustor or upstream thereof and (ii) a downstream steam injection location located to inject steam into the core air flow path downstream of the primary combustion zone.

Turbine engine including a steam system

A method of detecting an airflow fault condition in a gas turbine engine, the method including: operating the gas turbine engine with a thermal transport bus having an intermediary heat exchange fluid flowing therethrough; determining a performance characteristic of the intermediary heat exchange fluid in the thermal transport bus is outside of a predetermined range, wherein the performance characteristic includes a temperature, a pressure, a flowrate, or a combination thereof; and indicating an airflow fault condition in response to determining the performance characteristic is outside of the predetermined range.

System and method of detecting an airflow fault condition

A propulsion system includes (a) a turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section, (b) a ramjet engine, and (c) an inlet section including a turbine engine inlet portion and a ramjet inlet portion, the inlet section providing an inlet airflow to the turbine engine and to the ramjet engine. The turbine engine inlet portion includes an expansion turbine arranged upstream of the compressor section.

Aircraft propulsion system

A gas turbine engine is provided, having: a bifurcation; and a turbomachine further including a cooled cooling air (CCA) system, the CCA system having: a cold side bleed assembly defining an inlet positioned to be in fluid communication with an airflow over the bifurcation; a CCA heat exchanger in thermal communication with the cold side bleed assembly downstream of the inlet of the cold side bleed assembly; and a hot side bleed assembly defining an inlet in fluid communication with a working gas flowpath through a compressor section, at a compressor discharge cavity, or both, the hot side bleed assembly in thermal communication with the CCA heat exchanger to cool an airflow through the hot side bleed assembly, the hot side bleed assembly further in thermal communication with a hot component of the turbomachine to cool the hot component of the turbomachine.

Gas turbine engine having cooling systems

A turbine engine includes a cooling air duct for cooling air positioned radially between a core air flow path for core air and a bypass airflow passage for bypass air. A heat exchanger is positioned in the cooling air duct to transfer heat from a heat source from within the turbine engine. The heat exchanger may be a condenser. The turbine engine may further include a steam system that extracts water from the combustion gases, vaporizes the water to generate steam, and injects the steam into the core air flow path, the steam system including the condenser to transfer heat from the combustion gases to the cooling air and to condense the water from the combustion gases. The turbine engine may further include a booster fan to increase the pressure of the cooling air and the core air.

Turbine engine with three air streams

A turbine engine for an aircraft including a combustor, a turbine, and a steam system. The combustor generates combustion gases. The turbine receives the combustion gases and is drivingly coupled to a shaft. The steam system includes a boiler, a superheater, and a steam turbine. The boiler receives water and is fluidly connected to the combustor to receive a first portion of the combustion gases from the combustor and to boil the water to generate steam. The superheater is located downstream of the combustor to receive a second portion of the combustion gases from the combustor and to heat the steam. The steam turbine is fluidly coupled to the superheater to receive the steam from the superheater and to rotate the steam turbine. The steam turbine is drivingly coupled to the shaft.

Aircraft gas turbine engine including a steam system

A turbine engine for an aircraft. The turbine engine includes a combustor fluidly coupled to a fuel delivery assembly to receive fuel from the fuel delivery assembly. The fuel is injected into the combustor and combusted in the combustor to generate combustion gases. A condenser is located downstream of a turbine to receive the combustion gases and to condense water. The fuel heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the condenser to receive heat from the water condensed by the condenser. The fuel heat exchanger is located in the fuel delivery assembly to receive the fuel and to transfer the heat received from the water to the fuel. The boiler is located downstream of the fuel heat exchanger. The boiler receives the water and is fluidly connected to the combustor to receive the combustion gases and to boil the water to generate steam.

A vehicle is provided including a structure including a skin defining an outside surface exposed to ambient cooling flow and an inside surface. The structure includes a first structural member extending from the inside surface of the skin and a second structural member extending from the inside surface of the skin; and a thermal management system including a heat exchanger assembly positioned adjacent to, and in thermal communication with, the inside surface of the skin, the heat exchanger assembly positioned at least partially between the first and second structural members of the structure.

Vehicle heat exchanger system including an inflatable operable with a cooling tube

A propulsion system includes a turbine engine and a ramjet engine. A turbine engine inlet section restriction device permits an inlet airflow to a turbine engine inlet in a first (low speed) operating state of the propulsion system, and restricts the inlet airflow to the turbine engine inlet in a second (high speed) operating state of the propulsion system. A combustor inlet flow control device, in the first operating state, provides an airflow from a compressor to the turbine engine combustor, and restricts an airflow from a ramjet bleed air passage, and, in the second operating state, provides a ramjet inlet bleed airflow to the turbine engine combustor, while restricting airflow from the compressor. In the second operating state, the turbine engine drives at least one accessory gearbox to drive at least one accessory component.

Propulsion system using ramjet bleed air for gas turbine combustion

A turbine engine having a longitudinal centerline axis. The turbine engine including a fan comprising a plurality of fan blades that rotate about the longitudinal centerline axis and a rotational component coupled to the fan. The turbine engine including a fluid circuit for supplying fuel or lubricant to the turbine engine and a hydraulic fan brake coupled to the fluid circuit to prevent rotation of the rotational component, thus preventing rotation of the fan. The hydraulic fan brake including a hydraulic cylinder fluidly coupled to the fluid circuit and a valve coupled to the hydraulic cylinder and having a first valve position that disengages the hydraulic fan brake to allow rotation of the rotational component and a second valve position that engages the hydraulic fan brake to prevent rotation of the rotational component.

Gas turbine engine having a hydraulic fan brake

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