Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – With safety device
Patent
1992-10-28
1994-02-15
Bertsch, Richard A.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
With safety device
F02G 300
Patent
active
052856364
ABSTRACT:
An improved drain mast assembly for a gas turbine engine is connected to an outer surface of a nacelle of the engine and has a plurality of liquid drain lines terminating within the assembly. The assembly comprises a plurality of liquid collection chambers installed within the drain mast assembly with each of the chambers coupled in liquid receiving relationship with a respective one of the liquid drain lines. Each of the chambers collect drain liquid from a respective one of the drain lines. A valve extends from each chamber for selectively draining the collected liquid from each of the chambers for identifying drain lines having relatively high drain-rates. Each of the chambers is separately removable from the drain mast assembly in one form or all chambers may be simultaneously removed in another form of the invention. Each chamber further includes a transparent view window for visually determining a volume of liquid collected by the chamber. The valve in each chamber preferably includes a standpipe extending a preselected distance into the chamber for overflow draining of the chamber when the collected liquid exceeds a predetermined volume.
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Janes Ronald A.
Mayo Dennis D.
Miller Franklin E.
Bertsch Richard A.
General Electric Company
Rafter John R.
Richman Howard R.
Squillaro Jerome C.
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