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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2023
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Brandon W. Miller, Middletown, OH (US);
Andrew J. Hank, Maineville, OH (US);
Scott D. Hunter, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey Whitener, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Paul Pezzi, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey D. Clements, Mason, OH (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine includes a high-pressure (HP) compressor and a bleed system. The HP compressor includes an HP compressor flowpath and a plurality of stages of HP compressor rotor blades and HP compressor stator vanes. The bleed system includes a plurality of bleed flowpaths including at least three bleed flowpaths in fluid communication with the HP compressor flowpath. The plurality of bleed flowpaths direct compressed air from the HP compressor flowpath. At least two of the bleed flowpaths are at successive stages of the plurality of stages.