Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Rotating combustion products generator and turbine
Patent
1979-01-15
1980-12-30
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Rotating combustion products generator and turbine
60 3978, 60247, F02C 502
Patent
active
042415764
ABSTRACT:
The gas turbine engine includes a centrifugal fan having radial blades for receiving inlet air through inner entrance openings to spaces between adjacent blades. The air passes through outer exit openings from the spaces between the blades. Stationary inner and outer circumferential segments define closure members which successively eclipse the inner entrance and outer exit openings of the centrifugal fan blades when the fan rotates to position adjacent blades between the closure members. The closure members and space between the blades thus define closed combustion chambers. Fuel is injected and ignited so that continuous combustion takes place at constant volume, the exhaust gases escaping through the outer exit openings when rotation of the fan positions these openings beyond the outer closure members. This continuous combustion at constant volume provides for increased efficiency in the gas turbine engine over the Brayton cycle constant pressure type turbine engine.
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patent: 2612022 (1952-09-01), Keys
patent: 3005311 (1961-10-01), Ross
patent: 3417564 (1968-12-01), Call
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