Combustors for use in turbine engine assemblies

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2011-07-26

2011-07-26

Cuff, Michael (Department: 3741)

Power plants

Combustion products used as motive fluid

Combustion products generator

Reexamination Certificate

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07984615

ABSTRACT:
An engine assembly includes a scroll assembly including an inlet, an outlet, an inner section, and an outer section. Each of the inner section and the outer section extend between the inlet and the outlet with the outer section being longer than the inner section. The engine assembly further includes a combustor having an entrance for receiving fuel to be mixed with air and combusted in the combustor, an exit coupled to the inlet of the scroll assembly for delivering the combusted air-fuel mixture, including a hot stream, thereto, and a wall coupled between the entrance and the exit and including a plurality of dilution holes therethrough for deflecting the hot stream toward the outer section of the scroll assembly.

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