General Electric Company

Wayne R Oliver

Kevin Richard Kirtley

Walter Jackson Tingle

Roy E Moyer

Chester J Lamando, Jr

Dennis R Girardin

A particle separator which broadly includes: an inner wall, an outer wall and a splitter, wherein the inner and outer walls define an air intake passageway, and wherein the splitter is positioned between the inner and outer walls so as to define a scavenge air flow passageway connected to the intake passageway and a main air flow passageway connected to the intake passageway; the inner wall having a humped-shaped portion between the intake passageway and the main air flow passageway; the humped-shaped portion having a peak and a radius of curvature at any point on the hump-shaped portion of the inner wall after the peak corresponding to a degree of curvature of from about 30 to about 60 degrees; and a boundary layer control mechanism for providing active boundary layer control along the inner wall after the peak and within the main air flow passageway. Also provided is a method for providing active boundary layer flow control along the inner wall after the peak and within the main air flow passageway.

Particle separator using boundary layer control

A turbojet engine includes a compressor and turbine, with a combustor disposed therebetween for generating exhaust gas. An afterburner includes an annular casing and liner spaced radially inwardly therefrom to define a cooling duct therebetween. A recoup duct is disposed in flow communication with the compressor for receiving a portion of compressed air therefrom as recoup air. A plenum is disposed at an upstream end of the afterburner casing, and includes an inlet disposed in flow communication with the recoup duct for receiving the recoup air, and an outlet disposed in flow communication with the afterburner cooling duct for discharging the recoup air therein.

Recoup turbojet engine

A gas turbine engine utilizes a main and at least one auxiliary particle separator for enhancing the separation of foreign particles from a stream of air entering the engine. The engine includes interior walls which collectively define an engine intake passageway and a compressor inlet passageway in flow communication with the intake passageway so as to provide a primary flowpath for air traveling through the engine to the engine compressor. The main and auxiliary particle separators each include a passageway associated with a corresponding interior wall of the engine. Each separator passageway has an inlet opening to one side of the main flowpath and directed generally upstream of the primary flowpath so as not to appreciably effect the pressure loss through the engine. Furthermore, each separator passageway includes a section adjacent its inlet which is arranged relative to the primary flow path extending thereacross so as to facilitate the acceptance of an amount of air flowing along and adjacent the corresponding wall by the separators and thereby facilitate the acceptance of foreign particles entrained within the amount of air.

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Peabody, MA, United States of America

Wayne R Oliver