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US 10,704,425 B2Granted
Assembly for a gas turbine engine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJared Peter Buhler, Christopher Charles Glynn, Corey Bourassa, Monty Lee Shelton, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
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Abstract
An assembly for removing entrained particles from a fluid stream passing through a gas turbine engine includes a first particle remover, a second particle remover fluidly coupled which receives a particle-laden stream from the first particle remover, and a venturi having a fluidly coupled to the second particle remover to increase the pressure differential across the assembly.
Claims17
An assembly for removing entrained particles from a fluid stream passing through a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a first particle remover having a particle separator separating the fluid stream into a first reduced-particle stream and a particle-laden stream, and comprising a main flow outlet emitting the first reduced-particle stream and a scavenge flow outlet emitting the particle-laden stream;
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- a second particle remover fluidly coupled to the scavenge flow outlet and comprising a return outlet emitting a second reduced-particle stream;
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- a venturi formed by a junction of the main flow outlet and the return outlet, where the main flow outlet at the junction has a reduced cross section defining a low pressure area, and the return outlet is fluidly coupled to the low pressure area at the junction, whereby the second reduced-particle stream is drawn by the low pressure area into and mixed with the first reduced particle stream at the junction.
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