3528results about "Jet propulsion plants" patented technology

A power turbine blade for a gas turbine engine includes at least one of a third-stage blade, a fourth-stage blade, or a fifth-stage blade. The power turbine blade includes a platform and an airfoil that extends in a spanwise direction from the platform to a tip shroud. The airfoil has an external airfoil surface formed in conformance with multiple cross-section airfoil profiles described by a set of Cartesian coordinates.

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a combustor with a combustion chamber and fuel spray nozzles to inject fuel into the chamber. The nozzles include a first and second subset. The combustor is operable so each of the first subset is supplied with fuel at a greater rate than each of the second subset. A ratio of nozzles in the first subset to the second subset is 1:3 to 1:6. A fuel-flow nvPM emissions index ratio isEIidle × Wf,idleEImaxTO × Wf,maxTO.EIidle is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the engine at around 7% available thrust. EImaxTO is the index at around 100% available thrust. Wf,idle is the rate of fuel to the nozzles in kg / s at around 7% available thrust. Wf,maxTO is the rate of fuel to the nozzles in kg / s at around 100% available thrust. The index ratio is between 0.357 and 8.

A gas turbine engine has a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles. A combustor is operable with the first subset of fuel spray nozzles supplied with fuel at a greater fuel flow rate than each the second subset of fuel spray nozzles. A a ratio of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is 1:2 to 1:5. A first idle-MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is:EIidleEImaxTOwhere: EIidle is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg operating at around 7% available thrust; and EImaxTO is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg operating at around 100% available thrust; and the first idle-MTO nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 60. A sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can be provided to the fuel spray nozzles.

This invention discloses an adaptive wave-absorbing and flow-guiding device for aero-engines, comprising a casing made of wave-absorbing composite material, a wave-absorbing inner ring concentrically arranged with the casing, multiple adjustable wave-absorbing blades distributed circumferentially along the casing, a conical fairing disposed at the leading edge of the wave-absorbing inner ring, and an actuation mechanism. The adjustable wave-absorbing blades include an adjustable leading edge made of metal and an adjustable trailing portion made of wave-absorbing composite material. The leading edge of the adjustable wave-absorbing blade is fixedly disposed between the casing and the wave-absorbing inner ring, while the trailing portion is movably disposed between the casing and the wave-absorbing inner ring. The actuation mechanism is used to adjust the angle between the trailing portion of the adjustable wave-absorbing blade and the incoming flow. This adaptive wave-absorbing and flow-guiding device for aero-engines achieves the dual functions of regulating the inlet airflow and wave-absorbing efficiency, reducing the complexity of the aero-engine system and thus improving its operational reliability.

The invention provides a turbine engine starting processing method and system and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the rotating speed of a high-pressure rotor, and dividing the high-pressure rotor into a cold operation stage, an ignition stage, an acceleration stage and a slow transition stage which are executed in sequence according to the rotating speed of the high-pressure rotor; a corresponding self-adaptive control process is executed in each stage of the ignition stage, the acceleration stage and the slow transition stage, the self-adaptive control process comprises the steps that environment parameters and stage identification are obtained, and the environment parameters comprise the environment temperature, the flight height and the flight Mach number; processing the environment parameters by using the comprehensive correction logic to obtain a comprehensive environment correction coefficient; determining a target fuel control quantity based on the stage identifier and the comprehensive environment correction coefficient; target fuel injection pressure and target ignition parameters are determined based on the stage identifier, the environment temperature and the flight height; and starting control is executed based on the target fuel control quantity, the target fuel injection pressure and the target ignition parameters. The starting success rate and reliability of the engine can be improved.

A system for providing mobile electric power includes a first transport including a gas turbine and a generator and a second transport including an air inlet filter housing and an exhaust stack. The two transports are connectable to each other at an intake connection and an exhaust connection between facing sides of the two transports. The first transport includes first and second inlet ports, and first, second, and third outlet ports on the facing side of the first transport. The intake connection provides filtered air from the air inlet filter housing to the first inlet port as combustion air for the gas turbine, and the second inlet port as cooling air to cool an enclosure of the gas turbine. The exhaust connection exhausts air to the exhaust stack from the first, second and third outlet ports.

There is provided a flameholder 370 for a reheat assembly 300, 300A of a gas turbine engine 10. The flameholder comprises an internal flow passageway 376 extending from an inlet aperture 374 and defining a flow direction F for flow through the flameholder 370. The internal flow passageway 376 is defined by an internal surface 34 of the flameholder 370. A grid of recesses 31 is formed in the internal surface 34 of the flameholder 370.

Fuel thermal management systems and related methods are disclosed. An example system includes a flowline to carry a fluid, a waste heat recovery heat exchanger coupled to the flowline, the waste heat recovery heat exchanger to heat the fluid to a first temperature, and a feed tank coupled to the flowline, the feed tank including a first inlet and a second inlet, the first inlet to receive a first portion of the fluid from the waste heat recovery heat exchanger at the first temperature, the second inlet to receive a second portion of the fluid at a second temperature less than the first temperature, wherein the first portion of the fluid and the second portion of the fluid mixes in the feed tank to form a third portion having a third temperature between the first temperature and the second temperature.

A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a combustor positioned in a core air flowpath that generates combustion gases, a steam system that extracts water from the combustion gases and generates steam, and a gearbox assembly. The steam system includes water storage devices that store the water therein. The water storage devices include a first state in which a level of the water increases or is maintained and a second state in which the level of the water decreases as the water flows through the water storage devices. The gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extraction volume ratio between 0.01 and 0.3, inclusive of the endpoints. The lubricant extraction volume ratio defined by:VGVG⁢B·VGis a gutter volume of the gutter and VGB is a gearbox volume.

A gas turbine engine includes a fan assembly, a turbo-engine encased within a turbo-engine cowl structure, a nacelle, and a thrust reverser system arranged, at least in part, in the nacelle. The turbo-engine includes a low-pressure compressor, a high-pressure compressor, an inter-compressor frame structure between the low-pressure compressor and the high-pressure compressor and including an outer frame portion having a cowl door engagement member on an upstream side of the outer frame portion, and a plurality of cowl doors defining the turbo-engine cowl structure. Each cowl door includes an inter-compressor frame engagement portion that engages with the cowl door engagement member of the inter-compressor frame structure, and a plurality of thrust reverser drag link connectors arranged on an outer side of the cowl door and arranged between the upstream side of the inter-compressor frame structure and a downstream side of the inter-compressor frame structure.

A gas turbine engine is provided that includes a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, an annular fan bypass air path, a bleed air structure, an annular compartment, and an anti-icing system. The compressor section has a low and high pressure compressor sections. The fan bypass air path is defined by inner and outer bypass wall structures. An outer radial boundary structure defines an outer radial boundary of a core gas path within the low pressure compressor section. The bleed air structure is disposable in an open state or in a closed state. The annular compartment is defined by the inner bypass wall structure, the outer radial boundary structure, and a firewall. The anti-icing system is disposable in an activated state or in a deactivated state. In the activated state the anti-icing system is configured to mitigate ice accumulation within the annular compartment.

An assembly is provided for an aircraft powerplant. This assembly includes an electric machine, an electric machine controller, an electric cable, a conduit and an air circuit. The electric machine controller is configured to control operation of the electric machine. The electric cable electrically couples the electric machine controller to the electric machine. The conduit extends longitudinally from a first end of the conduit to a second end of the conduit. The electric cable extends longitudinally through a bore of the conduit. The air circuit is configured to cool the electric cable within the conduit using a flow of air. The air circuit includes the bore of the conduit.

A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine defining an engine inlet to an inlet duct, a fan duct inlet to a fan duct, and a core inlet to a core duct; a primary fan driven by the turbomachine; and a secondary fan located downstream of the primary fan within the inlet duct. The gas turbine engine defines a thrust to power airflow ratio between 3.5 and 100 and a core bypass ratio between 0.1 and 10, wherein the thrust to power airflow ratio is a ratio of an airflow through a bypass passage over the turbomachine plus an airflow through the fan duct to an airflow through the core duct, and wherein the core bypass ratio is a ratio of the airflow through the fan duct to the airflow through the core duct.

An assembly including a nacelle panel of an aircraft engine, the nacelle panel including an outer skin, an inner skin and a central layer interposed between the outer skin and the inner skin, and the nacelle panel having a free inner enclosure contiguous with the outer skin, and a member forming a link including one or more degrees of freedom, the member being attached to the nacelle panel solely by one or both of the outer skin and the inner skin, and the member extending facing the free inner enclosure.

There is provided a propulsion machine 10 comprising a fluid duct defined by a wall 42, 44 and a moveable member 34, 36 with a sealing module 90, 90' therebetween. The moveable member 34, 36 is moveable relative to the wall 42, 44. The sealing module 90, 90' comprises a mounting structure 92 coupled to the moveable member 34, 36 and an extendable structure 94 having a sealing surface 96. A chamber 98 is defined between the mounting structure 92 and the extendable structure 94 throughout a travel of the extendable structure 94 relative to the mounting structure 92. The sealing module 90, 90' is configured to receive a pressurized actuation fluid into the chamber 98 to load the sealing surface 96 against an opposing surface 43 of the wall 42, 44 to provide a seal with the opposing surface 43.

An assembly is provided for an aircraft powerplant. This assembly includes a vane structure and a heat exchanger. The vane structure extends longitudinally to a leading edge of the vane structure. The vane structure includes a translating body, a stationary body and an inlet passage. The translating body is configured to translate longitudinally between a first position and a second position. The translating body is configured to form the leading edge of the vane structure and close an inlet into the inlet passage when in the first position. The translating body is configured to open the inlet into the inlet passage when in the second position. The heat exchanger is disposed within the stationary body. The inlet passage projects into the stationary body from the inlet into the inlet passage to the heat exchanger.

The invention provides a direct ignition baffling combustion chamber and an engine, and belongs to the technical field of aero-engines, the direct ignition baffling combustion chamber comprises a cartridge receiver, an oil supply assembly, an oil flinger and an ignition device, the cartridge receiver comprises an outer cartridge receiver, an inner cartridge receiver, a flame tube outer ring and a flame tube inner ring cavity; an oil supply assembly on the cartridge receiver is provided with an oil spraying hole; the oil flinger is rotationally arranged at the oil spraying hole of the oil supply assembly; the ignition end face of the ignition device extends to the gas side of the flame tube inner ring. Fuel oil is conveyed into the oil flinger through the oil spraying hole of the oil supply assembly, the ignition end face of the ignition device extends to the inner ring gas end of the flame tube, an oil mist cone atomized by the oil flinger can be directly beaten to the position close to the ignition end face, the oil mist cone can be directly ignited, and high-reliability ignition of the combustion chamber can be achieved without additionally arranging an auxiliary ignition device. According to the direct ignition baffling combustion chamber, the problem that an auxiliary ignition device needs to be arranged when an indirect ignition mode is adopted in a baffling combustion chamber in the prior art is solved.

A method of directing particles entrained within an airflow disposed to enter a gas turbine engine of an aircraft is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a nose cone, a fan section, a compressor inlet, a compressor section, and a turbine section. The nose cone is fixed for rotation with the fan section. The method includes: providing an entrained particle removal (EPR) system configured to inject a fluid outward from the nose cone from a plurality of nozzles engaged with the nose cone, wherein the nozzles are spaced apart from one another around a circumference of the nose cone; and controlling the EPR system to inject the fluid from the plurality of nozzles into the airflow. The particles wetted by the injected fluid are subject to centrifugal force in and aft of the fan section and are directed radially outward of the compressor inlet.

An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system includes an open propulsor rotor and a powertrain configured to receive power from a turbine and drive both the propulsor rotor and a compressor section at the same time in a first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, a brake is applied that stops rotation of the propulsor rotor and the turbine power received by the powertrain drives only the compressor section. In the second mode, the propulsor rotor is stationary or otherwise undriven which effectively prevents rotation of the propulsor rotor. This reduces or eliminates safety risks to ground crews resulting from an open propulsor rotor actively rotating as the aircraft is on the ground.

An oil supply system, has: an oil tank; a closed-loop oil circuit including a component, a pump having a pump inlet and a pump outlet, and a de-aerator; a make-up flow conduit connecting the oil tank to the closed-loop oil circuit; a make-up pump connected to the closed-loop oil circuit; a recirculation conduit in parallel to the make-up pump and bypassing the make-up pump; a fixed orifice fluidly connected to the make-up flow conduit upstream of the closed-loop oil circuit and downstream of the recirculation conduit, the fixed orifice having an area selected to increase a pressure at an outlet of the make-up pump above a pressure at the de-aerator inlet; and a metering orifice connected on the recirculation conduit and having a flow circulating area selected to reduce a flow rate inputted into the closed-loop oil circuit below a flow rate generated by the make-up pump.

A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine defining an engine inlet to an inlet duct, a fan duct inlet to a fan duct, and a core inlet to a core duct; a primary fan driven by the turbomachine; and a secondary fan located downstream of the primary fan within the inlet duct. The gas turbine engine defines a thrust to power airflow ratio between 3.5 and 100 and a core bypass ratio between 0.1 and 10, wherein the thrust to power airflow ratio is a ratio of an airflow through a bypass passage over the turbomachine plus an airflow through the fan duct to an airflow through the core duct, and wherein the core bypass ratio is a ratio of the airflow through the fan duct to the airflow through the core duct.

Hybrid propulsion systems that utilize liquid natural gas solid oxide fuel cells in a manner practical for use in aircraft that avoid the use of heavy batteries, provide transient response times suitable for use in aircraft, and / or simplify reactant pre-conditioning systems using a compressor and turbine pair operatively coupled to the solid oxide fuel cell. Such hybrid propulsion systems for an aircraft may include a liquid natural gas solid oxide fuel cell, a motor driven by electric power from the solid oxide fuel cell, a gearbox operatively coupled to the motor, and a turbofan engine configured to generate thrust for the aircraft. The turbofan engine may be configured to provide electric power and shaft power and may include a duct fan that is operatively coupled to the motor via the gearbox, with the duct fan being driven by mechanical power from the gearbox and by the motor.

An aircraft power plant, has: an air mover for propelling an aircraft; an electric motor drivingly engaged with the air mover; a gas turbine engine having a compressor for pressurizing air, a combustor in which the pressurised air is mixed with fuel and ignited for generating combustion gases, and a turbine for extracting energy from the combustion gases; and a hydrogen fuel cell operatively connected to the electric motor for powering the electric motor with electricity generated by the hydrogen fuel cell, the hydrogen fuel cell operable to generate electricity using the air from the compressor and hydrogen from a source of hydrogen.

The utility model relates to the technical field of pneumatic heatproof ground test equipment for aerospace crafts, in particular to a conical spray pipe which comprises an inner shell, a transition shell layer and an outer shell, the transition shell layer is sleeved on the outer side of the inner shell, and the outer shell is sleeved on the outer side of the transition shell layer. The inner shell is divided into three sections in the axial direction, and a plurality of reinforcing ribs are evenly arranged on the outer side conical surfaces of the first section, the second section and the third section at intervals in the circumferential direction. The number of the reinforcing ribs at the second section is smaller than that of the reinforcing ribs at the first section and the third section, and a cooling liquid channel is formed between every two adjacent reinforcing ribs in the circumferential direction. According to the conical spray pipe, the reinforcing ribs are arranged in the axial direction of the spray pipe in a segmented mode, the number of the reinforcing ribs in the circumferential direction of the throat is smaller than that of the reinforcing ribs arranged on the contraction section and the expansion section, and the reinforcing ribs serve as structural reinforcing structures of the inner shell and serve as wall bodies of the cooling channels at the same time, so that passing of cooling liquid at the throat is guaranteed; the cooling effect at the throat is improved, and sufficient strength of the inner wall of the spray pipe is ensured.

A gas turbine engine has a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles. A combustor is operable with the first subset of fuel spray nozzles supplied with fuel at a greater flow rate than each of the second subset of fuel spray nozzles. A ratio of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is 1:2 to 1:5. A first idle-MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is:EIidleEImax⁢TO,where: EIidle is the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg operating at around 7% available thrust; EImaxTO is the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine operating at around 100% available thrust; and the first idle-MTO nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 60. A sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can be provided to the fuel spray nozzles.

A gas turbine engine is provided having a turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the compressor section having a high pressure compressor defining a high pressure compressor exit area (AHPCExit) in square inches and the turbine section having a drive turbine defining a drive turbine exit area (ADTExit) in square inches, the turbomachine further comprising a drive turbine shaft coupled to the drive turbine; wherein the gas turbine engine defines a maximum exhaust gas temperature (EGT) in degrees Celsius, a maximum drive turbine shaft torque (TOUT) in Newton meters, and a corrected specific power (CSP) in Newtons squared times degrees Celsius over meters squared, wherein the corrected specific power is determined as follows:(TOUTADTExit)2*EGTAHPCExit*1⁢0-1⁢1;wherein CSP is greater than 0.0001194×EGT2−0.103×EGT+22.14 and less than 0.0003294×EGT2−0.306×EGT+77.91; and wherein EGT is greater than 525 degrees Celsius and less than 1250 degrees Celsius.

An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system includes an open propulsor rotor and a powertrain configured to receive power from a turbine and drive both the propulsor rotor and a compressor section at the same time in a first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, a brake is applied that stops rotation of the propulsor rotor and the turbine power received by the powertrain drives only the compressor section. In the second mode, the propulsor rotor is stationary or otherwise undriven which effectively prevents rotation of the propulsor rotor. This reduces or eliminates safety risks to ground crews resulting from an open propulsor rotor actively rotating as the aircraft is on the ground.

A system and a method include a user interface including a display and an input device. The input device is configured to be operated to provide parameters for a flight of an aircraft. A control unit is in communication with the user interface. The control unit is configured to receive the parameters from the user interface, and determine one or both of emissions of the aircraft during phases of the flight of the aircraft, or emissions costs for the flight of the aircraft.

The invention relates to the field of start-stop control, and discloses a one-key start-stop control system of a single-shaft gas turbine, which is used for solving the technical bottlenecks of the traditional control method in the aspects of state perception, service life management and the like. Comprising the steps that a gas turbine state parameter set containing rotor thermal stress, combustion chamber temperature and exhaust temperature distribution is generated; and generating a life loss evaluation result and an operation efficiency evaluation result by adopting the life evaluation model and the efficiency calculation model, and generating a start-stop control prediction sequence through a dynamic programming algorithm. The service life loss and the operation efficiency are quantitatively evaluated in real time, so that the operation cost problem that the service life and the operation efficiency of the equipment are difficult to consider in the existing start-stop technology is solved, and the full-life-cycle operation cost is remarkably reduced while the long-term reliability of the equipment is guaranteed; maintenance cost can be effectively reduced, fuel consumption is saved, and power grid response economy is improved.

A front engine attachment system for an engine having an engine pylon with a nose having a main female clevis and a cylindrical housing, a main rod fastened to the engine by a secondary ball joint connection about a secondary axis, a main shaft realizing a main ball joint connection of the main rod in the main female clevis about a main axis, wherein the main axis and the secondary axis are in the same vertical plane, a hollow outer cylinder with a vertical axis, of which a first end is fastened in the cylindrical housing and of which a second end is mounted so as to be able to move, via an annular linear connection, with respect to the front casing and an inner cylinder threaded and fastened in the outer cylinder.