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US 2026/0177009 A1Published application
Reheater interface
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsAshley J. POWELL, Eduardo ROMERO, Andrew WILKINSON
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Abstract
A turbine exit diffuser for a gas turbine engine, the turbine exit diffuser comprising: an exhaust duct arranged to receive flow from a turbine; and a plurality of fingers extending axially downstream and radially away from the exhaust duct, each finger of the plurality being circumferentially spaced apart from an adjacent finger of the plurality, wherein the fingers are arranged to contact a reheater during attachment of the reheater to the turbine exit diffuser.
Claims11
A reheater to gas turbine interface comprising:
- a turbine exit diffuser comprising:
- an exhaust duct arranged to receive flow from a turbine;
- and
- a plurality of fingers extending axially downstream and radially away from the exhaust duct, each finger of the plurality being circumferentially spaced apart from an adjacent finger of the plurality,
- wherein the fingers are arranged to contact a reheater during attachment of the reheater to the turbine exit diffuser;
- and
- the reheater duct comprising:
- a reheater duct body arranged to allow a core gas flow therethrough and to separate the core gas flow from a bypass gas flow outside the reheater duct body;
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- a plurality of first leaves extending axially upstream from the reheater duct body, each first leaf being separated from an adjacent first leaf by a first slit that extends axially downstream from an upstream end of the first leaves,
- wherein the first leaves are arranged to abut an exhaust duct of a gas turbine engine to form a seal between the reheater duct body and the exhaust duct,
- wherein an axially upstream end of the reheater duct is received in or receives the exhaust duct such that the reheater duct and the exhaust duct form a sealed interface.
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