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US 11,448,132 B2Granted
Aircraft bypass duct heat exchanger
AssigneeRaytheon Technologies Corporation
InventorsJames F. Wiedenhoefer, Russell J. Bergman, William P. Stillman, Patrick M. Hart
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Abstract
A turbine engine heat exchanger has an array of heat exchanger plates mounted to an inner case wall for providing heat transfer from a bleed flowpath to a bypass flowpath. Each plate has: first and second faces along the bypass flowpath; a proximal edge mounted to the inner case wall; an inlet along the proximal edge; an outlet along the proximal edge; and a branch segment of the bleed flowpath passing from the inlet to the outlet.
Claims20
A turbine engine comprising:
- one or more fan sections;
- one or more compressor sections aft and downstream of the one or more fan sections along a core flowpath;
- a combustor section downstream of the one or more compressor sections along the core flowpath;
- one or more turbine sections downstream of the combustor section along the core flowpath;
- a bypass flowpath;
- an inner case wall along the bypass flowpath and having a plurality of first ports and a plurality of second ports;
- an array of heat exchanger plates mounted to the inner case wall for providing heat transfer from a first flowpath to the bypass flowpath, wherein each plate has:
- first and second faces along the bypass flowpath;
- a proximal edge mounted to the inner case wall;
- an inlet along the proximal edge and mated to a respective one of the first ports;
- an outlet along the proximal edge and mated to a respective one of the second ports;
- and
- a branch segment of the first flowpath passing from the inlet to the outlet;
- and
- an outlet plenum, the inner case wall second ports open to the outlet plenum wherein:
- the first flowpath is a bleed flowpath branching from the core flowpath and rejoining the core flowpath after passing through the array of heat exchanger plates.
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