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US 10,794,221 B2Granted
Gas turbine engine with geopolymer seal element
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsKevin Seymour, Christopher W. Strock
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Abstract
A gas turbine engine includes a rotatable component and a non-rotatable component. A seal is carried on one of the rotatable component or the non-rotatable component to provide sealing there between. The seal includes a geopolymer seal element.
Claims20
A gas turbine engine comprising:
- a rotatable component and a non-rotatable component;
- a seal carried on one of the rotatable component or the non-rotatable component to provide sealing there between, the seal including a geopolymer seal element that is an inorganic material that has a covalently bonded, amorphous network produced by condensation of tetrahedral aluminosilicate units, with alkali metal ions balancing the charge associated with tetrahedral aluminum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.