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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
Sudhir Ramesh Chaudhari, Karnataka, IN;
Jitendra Harish Bijlani, Karnataka, IN;
Carlos Serafim Fernandes, Taunton, MA (US);
Rahul Jaikaran Chillar, Marietta, GA (US);
Stephen David Hiner, Salisbury, GB;
Sudhir Ramesh Chaudhari, Karnataka, IN;
Jitendra Harish Bijlani, Karnataka, IN;
Carlos Serafim Fernandes, Taunton, MA (US);
Rahul Jaikaran Chillar, Marietta, GA (US);
Stephen David Hiner, Salisbury, GB;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide an inertial filtration system for air-ingesting machines. The inertial filtermay comprise a reducerdownstream of a vortex generator. The reducerdecreases the area that the airstream flows through, which may increase the angular momentum and the centrifugal forces acting on the particles of the ingested airstream. This may increase the cleaning performance and a decrease in the pressure drop across the inertial filter. Generally, the inertial filter functions such that flow components of higher density are separated from the rest of the airstream. The higher density flow components are bled out of the inertial filtervia an outlet. The remaining flow components flow downstream to compressor section