Turbine engine incorporating thermoelectric generators
AssigneesHispano Suiza, Snecma
InventorsJean-Jacques Charrier, Moez Bensaied, Marc Missout, Francis Pottier, Stephane Ribeiro, Romain Tabart
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Abstract
A front-fan turbojet engine including at least one fluid circuit and an air/fluid heat exchanger by which the fluid is cooled by air external to the turbojet engine and a splitter for splitting a flow downstream of the fan between a primary flow and a secondary flow. The heat exchanger is associated with a thermoelectric generator including a first and a second thermal exchange surface, of which the first surface is in thermal contact with the airflow and the second surface is in thermal contact with the fluid to be cooled in the exchanger.
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A front-fan turbojet engine comprising:
- at least one fluid circuit and an air/fluid heat exchanger by which the fluid is cooled by air external to the turbojet engine;
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- a splitter splitting a flow downstream of the fan between a primary flow and a secondary flow;
- wherein the heat exchanger is associated with a thermoelectric generator comprising a first and a second thermal exchange surface, of which the first surface is in thermal contact with the airflow and the second surface is in thermal contact with the fluid to be cooled in the exchanger, the first surface forming a wall element of the splitter, which wall element is located downstream of a leading edge of the splitter of the airflows, on a side of the secondary flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.