High pressure cyclonic separator for turbomachinery
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJoshua Tyler MOOK, Christopher Williams
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Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to separating solid particles from an airflow in a gas turbine engine. A separator includes a plurality of vortex chambers arranged about a longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine, each vortex chamber having a clean air outlet at a first end, a dirty outlet at a second end, and an air inlet transverse to the vortex chamber located at the first end. The separator also includes a sealable collection chamber in fluid communication with the dirty outlet of the each of the plurality of vortex chambers.
Claims22
A separator for separating solid particles from an airflow in a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a plurality of vortex chambers arranged about a longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine, each vortex chamber having a clean air outlet at a first end, a dirty outlet at a second end, and an air inlet transverse to the vortex chamber located at the first end;
- and
- a sealable collection chamber in fluid communication with the dirty outlet of the each of the plurality of vortex chambers.
A separator for separating entrained solid particles from an airflow in a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a plurality of vortex chambers arranged about a longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine;
- and
- a sealable collection chamber in communication with a dirty outlet of the each of the plurality of vortex chambers,
- wherein the plurality of vortex chambers separate at least 70 percent of the entrained solid particles from the airflow into the sealable collection chamber.
A method for separating entrained solid particles from a compressed airflow in a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- extracting a secondary airflow from the compressed airflow via a plurality of openings in an impeller shroud surrounding a compressor impeller;
- separating the entrained solid particles from the secondary airflow using a plurality of vortex chambers;
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- collecting the solid particles from a dirty outlet of each of the vortex chambers in a sealed collection chamber during operation of the gas turbine engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.