Axi-centrifugal compressor with variable outlet guide vanes
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsDavid Vickery PARKER, Wilhelm Ramon HERNANDEZ, Basuki SRIVASTAVA, Paul TRIMBY
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Abstract
A compressor apparatus includes: an upstream portion comprising an axial-flow compressor; a downstream portion comprising a centrifugal-flow compressor; and a row of variable-stagger-angle outlet guide vanes disposed between the upstream and downstream portions.
Claims15
A compressor apparatus comprising:
- an upstream portion comprising an axial-flow compressor;
- a downstream portion comprising a centrifugal-flow compressor;
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- a row of variable-stagger-angle outlet guide vanes disposed between the upstream and downstream portions.
A method of operating a compressor apparatus that includes an upstream portion comprising an axial-flow compressor, and a downstream portion comprising a centrifugal-flow compressor, the method comprising selectively varying a stagger angle of a row of outlet guide vanes disposed between the upstream and downstream portions, so as to balance a mass flow rate of fluid passing from the upstream portion to the downstream portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.