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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Timothy Deryck Stone, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Gregory Michael Laskowski, Rowley, MA (US);
Robert Proctor, West Chester, OH (US);
Curtis Stover, Mason, OH (US);
Robert Francis Manning, Newburyport, MA (US);
Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Milton Mills, NH (US);
Jared Peter Buhler, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Robert Carl Murray, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Corey Bourassa, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Loveland, OH (US);
Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section. At least one centrifugal separator is fluidly coupled to the bypass stream, where the at least one centrifugal separator includes a body, a center body, a separator inlet, and a separator outlet fluidly coupled with the turbine section to output a reduced-particle stream that is provided to the turbine section for cooling. The centrifugal separator includes an angular velocity increaser, a flow splitter, a first outlet passage defined by an inner annular wall that receives the reduced-particle stream, and an angular velocity decreaser located downstream of the flow splitter. A second outlet passage receives the concentrated-particle stream.