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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2021
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Ivan Sidorovich Paradiso, Toronto, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
A gas turbine engine, has: a compressor; a turbine having a rotor; and an inertial particle separator located upstream of the turbine downstream of the compressor, the inertial particle separator having: an intake conduit in fluid flow communication with the compressor and defining an elbow, a splitter, a leading edge of the splitter located downstream of the elbow, the splitter located to divide a flow into a particle flow and an air flow, and an inlet conduit and a bypass conduit located on respective opposite sides of the splitter, the inlet conduit receiving the air flow, the inlet conduit in fluid flow communication with a cavity containing the rotor for cooling the rotor of the turbine section, the bypass conduit receiving the particle flow, the bypass conduit in fluid flow communication with an environment outside the gas turbine engine while bypassing the cavity containing the rotor.