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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2017
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Carey Clum, East Hartford, CT (US);
Timothy S. Snyder, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A combustor may comprise a combustion chamber encapsulated by a combustor casing, wherein the combustor casing comprises a casing forward portion, a casing radially inward portion, a casing radially outward portion, and a casing aft portion. The casing radially inward portion may comprise a dirt collector system comprising a hot panel adjacent to the combustion chamber; a cold shell panel coupled to the hot panel such that the hot panel is between the combustion chamber and the cold shell panel; and a dirt collector panel coupled to the cold shell panel such that the cold shell panel is between the hot panel and the dirt collector panel. The cold shell panel and the dirt collector panel at least partially define a dirt collecting space.