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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsNeil Roger Brookes, Martin George Ray, Joseph David Cohen, Thomas Joseph McCarey
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In a gas turbine engine of the type which includes an inlet particle separator, there is provided apparatus for measuring the temperature of the air entering the engine compressor. A remote temperature probe is disposed in a feed duct having an inlet in flow communication with the engine inlet upstream of the particle separator and an outlet disposed intermediate the particle separator and inlet to the engine compressor. Airflow through the feed duct is generated by the pressure drop across the particle separator without the use of compressor bleed or other air sources which result in performance degradation of the engine. Temperature measurement errors during engine anti-icing are reduced by selectively cross-bleeding a predetermined quantity of anti-icing air into the feed duct during activation of the engine's anti-icing system. The response rate of the probe is significantly improved by enclosing the probe in an impingement heat transfer blanket.
In a gas turbine engine of the type which includes an inlet supplying air to a compressor, a combustor and turbine in serial flow relation and a particle separator disposed intermediate the inlet, and compressor and wherein a pressure drop is created across the particle separator by air flowing therethrough, there is provided apparatus for measuring the temperature of the air entering the compressor comprising:
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