Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Multiple fluid-operated motors
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-25
2009-06-23
Casaregola, Louis J (Department: 3741)
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Multiple fluid-operated motors
C415S117000, C415S914000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07549282
ABSTRACT:
A bypass channel for use in an inter-turbine transition duct assembly of a turbine engine is connected to a suction port disposed upstream of a high-pressure turbine and at least two injection openings disposed downstream of the high-pressure turbine. The flow through the bypass channel is motivated by the natural pressure difference across the high-pressure turbine. The flow out of the at least two injection openings is used to energize the boundary layer flow downstream of the high-pressure turbine in order to allow for the use of a more aggressively expanded inter-turbine duct without boundary layer separation. Methods for optimizing the flow through the turbine engine are also disclosed.
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Graziosi Paolo
Kirtley Kevin Richard
Widenhoefer James Fredric
Casaregola Louis J
Clarke Penny A.
General Electric Company
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