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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jeffrey D. Rambo, Mason, OH (US);
Arthur W. Sibbach, Boxford, MA (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan and a turbo-engine having a combustor that combusts compressed air and fuel to generate combustion gases and a power turbine coupled to a shaft for driving the fan. The gas turbine engine includes a direct contact condenser for condensing steam in a first flow into liquid water droplets and to generate a second flow including the liquid water droplets, a water tank for collecting the liquid water droplets of the second flow, and a water pump for introducing the liquid water droplets from the water tank into the direct contact condenser to act as condensation nuclei for the steam in the first flow. The first flow is an exhaust-vapor flow extracted from the combustion gases and the second flow is an exhaust-condensate flow from the direct contact condenser.