Environmental control system with adaptive turbine arrangement

Abstract

A method of operating an environmental control system pack of a vehicle includes providing a thermodynamic device including a compressor and a plurality of turbines including a first turbine and a second turbine mounted to a shaft and a plurality of valves fluidly coupled to the thermodynamic device, operating at least one of the plurality of valves to supply a medium to the first turbine and the second turbine in series during a mode of operation, and operating at least one of the plurality of valves to supply a first portion of the medium to the first turbine and to supply a second portion of the medium to the second turbine independently from the first portion of the medium in location another mode of operation.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.