Aircraft nacelle air intake incorporating optimized ice-treatment hot air injection means
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsAlain Porte, Arnaud Hormiere, Alain Dega
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Abstract
An aircraft nacelle air intake includes a duct extending around the circumference of the air intake and elements (24) for the localized injection of hot air into the duct to make the hot air circulate in the duct along its circumference, characterized in that the injection elements (24) include a collector tank in a plane secant with the direction of the stream of air flowing through the duct including at least one hole (44) allowing the air stream flowing in the duct to pass through it and a plurality of injection orifices (46) which are connected to a hot air supply and arranged around the passage hole or around and/or between the passage holes (44).
Claims9
An air intake of an aircraft nacelle, comprising:
- an inlet lip connected to a front frame, thereby forming a channel, wherein the channel extends around a circumference of said inlet lip;
- at least one localized injector located within the channel and configured to provide circulation of hot air in the channel, the injector comprising:
- a toroidal pipe having a hollow interior;
- a tube connected to the toroidal pipe interior at one end, passing through or attached to the front frame, and configured to be connected to a hot air supply at an opposite end;
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- at least one injection opening arranged on the toroidal pipe;
- wherein the toroidal pipe surrounds/forms a boundary for at least one passage hole;
- wherein the hot air supply is configured to send heated air through the tube into the interior of the toroidal pipe, throughout the interior of the pipe, out of the at least one injection opening, and into the inlet channel;
- wherein the heated air exiting the at least one injection opening causes ambient air within the inlet channel to circulate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction;
- wherein the circulating air within the inlet channel passes over an outer circumference of the at least one toroidal pipe and through the at least one passage hole and mixes with the heated air exiting the at least one injection opening.
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