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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2010
Ross Hartley Kenyon, Waterford, NY (US);
Adam Rasheed, Glenville, NY (US);
Paul Whitson Dom, Jr., Hamilton, OH (US);
Mark Joseph Pombles, Highland Heights, KY (US);
Ross Hartley Kenyon, Waterford, NY (US);
Adam Rasheed, Glenville, NY (US);
Paul Whitson Dom, Jr., Hamilton, OH (US);
Mark Joseph Pombles, Highland Heights, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A pulse detonation combustor including a plurality of nozzles engaged with one another via mating surfaces to support a gas discharge annulus in a circumferential direction. The pulse detonation combustor also including multiple pulse detonation tubes extending for the nozzles and a plurality of thermal expansion control joints coupled to the plurality of pulse detonation tubes. Each of the plurality of thermal expansion control joints is configured to facilitate independent thermal growth of each of the plurality of pulse detonation tubes. The thermal expansion control joints may be configured as a bellows expansion joint or a sliding expansion joint.