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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1992
Steven G Koff, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Robert S Mazzawy, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
John P Nikkanen, West Hartford, CT (US);
Nick A Nolcheff, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
The outer shroud of an axial flow compressor is treated to remove the low momentum flow adjacent the tips of the compressor blades in a judiciously located and sized passageway that removes the low momentum flow relative to the rotor blades at a location downstream of the blades' leading edge and returned at a location upstream of the point of removal. It being critical that no more than 12% of the total flow in the compressor rotor is removed for treatment. Anti-swirl vanes in the passageway serve to remove or reverse the swirl component from the removed low momentum flow. The intake is so designed that it selectively removes only the weak low momentum flow relative to the rotor and encourages the strong mainstream flow to remain in the main gas stream.