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US 12,662,968 B2Granted
Turbine engine having an engine core and a bleed air conduit
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsCesar Antonio Labastida Ponce, Apolinario Barra Ruiz
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Abstract
A turbine engine has an engine core, a fan section, a bleed air conduit, and a drain assembly. The engine core has a compressor section, combustor section, and turbine section in serial flow arrangement and defining a stator, rotor, and a fire zone. The fan section is rotationally coupled to the rotor. The bleed air conduit is fluidly coupled to at least one of the fan section or the compressor section and having a gravitational low point within the fire zone. The drain assembly is provided along the bleed air conduit.
Claims20
A turbine engine comprising:
- an engine core comprising
- a compressor section,
- a combustor section, and
- a turbine section in serial flow arrangement and defining a stator, a rotor, and a fire zone;
- a fan section rotationally coupled to the rotor;
- a bleed air conduit fluidly coupled to at least one of the fan section or the compressor section and having a gravitational low point within the fire zone;
- and
- a drain assembly provided along the bleed air conduit at a junction, the drain assembly including
- a weep hole fluidly coupled to the gravitational low point,
- an area between the junction and the weep hole in which condensation is configured to pool, and
- a drain conduit fluidly coupled to the weep hole and having a drain conduit outlet exterior the fire zone;
- wherein the weep hole comprises a funnel at an inlet of the weep hole and an expander at an outlet of the weep hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.