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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2023
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Raju Yamarthi, Bengaluru, IN;
David Justin Brady, Lynn, MA (US);
Adam Joseph Wangler, Evendale, OH (US);
Santosh Kumar Pattnaik, Bengaluru, IN;
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to provide vortex cooled secondary flow for a supercritical carbon dioxide pump are disclosed herein. An example thermal management system includes a hot secondary flow extract section fluidly coupled to an outlet of a pump system, a cooled secondary flow section fluidly coupled to the hot secondary flow extract section, the hot secondary flow extract section including a vortex tube to generate cooled secondary air flow from hot secondary flow extract air of the hot secondary flow extract section, and a bearing inlet fluidly coupled to the cooled secondary flow section, the bearing inlet positioned to route the cooled secondary flow to bearings of the pump system.