Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Combined with regulation of power output feature
Patent
1989-07-13
1990-12-25
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Combined with regulation of power output feature
60751, F02C 304
Patent
active
049793616
ABSTRACT:
The diffuser for delivering compressor discharge air to the combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a prediffuser mounted ahead of a dump diffuser which includes step changes in the flow path at its inlet and adjacent the cowl of the combustor in the passageway of the dump diffuser for providing at least two sudden expansions of the diffuser flow.
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Clark Jim A.
Field Barton R.
Shadowen James H.
Casaregola Louis J.
Thorpe Timothy S.
United Technologies Corporation
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