Pratt-whitney Canada Corp

Jeremie Barberger

Michel Bousquet

Vincent Savaria

Christopher Gover

Etienne Plamondon

Ninad Joshi

Thomas Trevor Ricci

Josianne Coulombe

Alice Goffin

Mathias Michaud

Raphael Paquet

An aircraft engine oil distribution system includes a system container, an oil reservoir disposed in the system container, the oil reservoir having a plurality of fins protruding from an inner-surface of a wall of the oil reservoir and extending into the oil reservoir, and a heat exchanger disposed in the system container. The heat exchanger includes a cooling fluid passage defined at least between the one or more walls of the system container and the sidewall of the oil reservoir, a matrix disposed in the cooling fluid passage in heat transfer relationship with the plurality of fins of the oil reservoirs.

Aircraft engine oil distribution system

A rotary engine, comprising: housings defining a rotor cavity and respective coolant passages fluidly connected in parallel to a source of coolant; a rotor within the rotor cavity; and a cooling system including: a flow regulating device in fluid communication with the respective coolant passages; a heat exchanger facilitating heat exchange between the coolant and a heat-transfer medium; and a controller operatively connected to the flow regulating device to: determine, based on an engine parameter and an environment parameter of the rotary engine, a flow rate of the coolant to be injected towards the respective coolant passages to maintain the housings within a temperature range, the engine parameter indicative of a quantity of heat generated by the rotary engine, the environment parameter indicative of a quantity of heat the heat exchanger is able to transfer to the heat-transfer medium; and cause the coolant to flow towards at the flow rate.

Rotary engine and cooling systems thereof

A housing assembly for a rotary engine, has: a rotor housing having a peripheral inner face, a first face and a second face; a first side defining a first inner side face; and a second side housing defining a second inner side face, the rotor cavity bounded between the first side housing and the second side housing, one or more of the rotor housing, the first side housing, and the second side housing having: a main body made of a base material; and an external layer made of an external material, the base material and the external material being dissimilar to one another, a wear-resistance of the external material greater than that of the base material, the external layer defining at least a part of one or more of the first face, the second face, the peripheral inner face, the first inner side face, and the second inner side face.

Housing assembly for rotary engine

A rotary engine, has: housings secured to one another, the housings including a first side housing, a second side housing, and a rotor housing disposed between the first side housing and the second side housing; and a rotor rotationally received within a rotor cavity defined by the first side housing, the second side housing, and the rotor housing; wherein the first side housing, the rotor housing, and the second side housing are cooled in parallel via respective coolant passages including: a first side housing coolant passage extending through the first side housing; a second side housing coolant passage extending through the second side housing; and a rotor housing coolant passage extending through the rotor housing, and wherein the coolant passages are free of inter-passage connection between the housings.

A housing assembly for a rotary engine, has: a rotor housing having a peripheral inner face, a first face and a second face; a first side housing secured to the first side and defining a first inner side face fac; and a second side housing secured to the second side and defining a second inner side face, the rotor cavity bounded axially between the first side housing and the second side housing, one or more of the rotor housing, the first side housing, and the second side housing having: a main body made of a base material; and an external layer made of an alloy including the base material, a wear-resistance of the alloy greater than that of the base material, the external layer defining one or more of the first face, the second face, the first inner side face, and the second inner side face.

An engine housing includes a rotor housing and a side housing assembly. The rotor housing extends about an axis to form a rotor cavity of the engine housing. The side housing assembly includes a side housing body, a side plate, and an impingement cooling assembly. The side plate is disposed between the rotor housing and the side housing body. The side plate forms the rotor cavity. The impingement cooling assembly includes a first baffle plate. The first baffle plate is disposed between the side housing body and the side plate. The side housing body, the side plate, and the first baffle plate form a coolant passage. The coolant passage includes an inlet plenum and a plurality of impingement cooling holes. The first baffle plate forms the plurality of impingement cooling holes. Each impingement cooling hole of the plurality of impingement cooling holes is disposed at the inlet plenum.

Impingement cooling assembly for an aircraft rotary engine housing

An apparatus is provided for a powerplant. This apparatus includes a pilot chamber structure formed as a monolithic body. The pilot chamber structure includes an exterior surface, an interior surface, a pilot chamber, a pilot aperture, a fuel aperture and an ignitor aperture. A material property of the monolithic body may change as the pilot chamber structure extends between the exterior surface and the interior surface. The interior surface forms an outer peripheral boundary of the pilot chamber. The pilot chamber is internal to the pilot chamber structure. The pilot aperture projects into the pilot chamber structure to the pilot chamber. The fuel aperture projects into the pilot chamber structure to the pilot chamber. The ignitor aperture projects into the pilot chamber structure to the pilot chamber.

Internal combustion engine with monolithic pilot chamber structure

A secondary air system for an aircraft engine comprises an air flow path communicating between a source of pressurized cooling air and an air consuming component. A filtering baffle is disposed in the air flow path upstream from the air consuming component. The filtering baffle has a monolithic body at least partly made of a cellular material, the cellular material including a non-stochastic lattice structure having a plurality of cells arranged in an ordered, repeating manner for trapping particulate matter contained in a flow of contaminated air.

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Montreal, Canada

Jeremie Barberger