Gas separation – Aircraft anti-ingestion means
Patent
1981-01-14
1983-06-21
Nozick, Bernard
Gas separation
Aircraft anti-ingestion means
60 39092, 55463, 244 53B, B01D 3900
Patent
active
043892272
ABSTRACT:
An air intake structure for a gas turbine engine comprising a duct having an air inlet at its upstream end for the engine and a generally mushroom-shaped center body. The duct and the center body have circular cross-sections throughout their lengths and are coaxial. The center body has a first stem portion extending into the duct and a second mushroom-shaped portion upstream of the air inlet of the duct, the mushroom-shaped portion having a maximum diameter greater than the diameter of the air inlet. An apertured wall circumferentially extends around the maximum diameter of the second portion of the center body, the apertures of the wall being so dimensioned as to cause any small liquid droplets flowing over the upstream face thereof to coalesce into larger liquid droplets. A step immediately downstream of the apertured wall causes the formed larger droplets to be launched from the center body in a trajectory which avoids the air inlet of the duct. The apertures are dimensioned so that each launched liquid droplet is of a mass sufficient to provide the desired trajectory.
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Nozick Bernard
Rolls-Royce Limited
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