Patent classifications
F05D2260/20
Pressure gain for cooling flow in aircraft engines
Gas turbine engines and rotor arms thereof are described. The gas turbine engines include a first disk, a second disk, and a rotor arm arranged between and connecting the first disk to the second disk, wherein a cavity is defined at least between the rotor arm and the first disk. The rotor arm includes a radial portion having an inner diameter end and an outer diameter end, an axial portion having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the axial portion is connected to the outer diameter end of the radial portion, at least one entrance flow path defined within the radial portion extending from the inner diameter end to the outer diameter end, and at least one exit aperture arranged proximate the second end of the axial portion.
Oil cooling system for aircraft engine
An oil cooling system for an aircraft engine, a bypass valve and an associate method of cooling aircraft engine oil are provided. The oil cooling system includes a heat exchanger having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in fluid communication with a first oil conduit to receive a first oil flow from the first oil conduit. The heat exchanger facilitates heat transfer from the first oil flow to another fluid. A flow restrictor defining a constriction is operatively disposed to restrict the first oil flow through the heat exchanger. A second oil conduit receives the first oil flow from the heat exchanger. A bypass oil passage provides fluid communication between the first oil conduit and the second oil conduit to allow a second oil flow received from the first oil conduit to flow to the second oil conduit and bypass the heat exchanger.
TURBINE BLADE, TURBINE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TURBINE BLADE
A turbine blade disposed along a radial direction of a turbine includes: an airfoil portion positioned in a fluid flow passage of the turbine; and a shroud portion positioned on an inner side or an outer side of the airfoil portion in the radial direction, and having an opening with which an end portion of the airfoil portion is to be engaged. A clearance is formed between a wall surface forming the opening of the shroud portion and an outer peripheral surface of the end portion of the airfoil portion. The wall surface of the shroud portion and the outer peripheral surface of the airfoil portion are joined to each other. At least one of the shroud portion or the airfoil portion has a cooling hole formed thereon, the cooling hole having an opening into the clearance and being configured to supply the clearance with a cooling fluid.
PRESSURE BALANCED THERMAL ACTUATOR
A pressure balanced thermal actuator includes a flow housing having an inlet and an outlet, with the flow housing being affixed at opposing ends to two bellows housings, each of which contains a bellows. An actuation rod is operably coupled to each bellows and contains a fluid passage therewithin. When the temperature of the area surrounding the actuator increases, the pressure inside the bellows housings increases, and exerts a force on the bellows therein, compressing it. As a result, the actuation rod moves from a first position to a second position to align the fluid passage with the inlet and the outlet, enabling the controlled passage of a first fluid from the inlet, and through the fluid passage, to the outlet, to reduce the temperature of the area surrounding the valve assembly. The actuator is unaffected by changes in the ambient pressure, by working equally on two opposing bellows areas.
Turbine airfoil
Provided is a turbine airfoil including: a cooling passage that allows a cooling medium to move from a base part side to a tip end part side in an airfoil height direction; a lattice structure including rib sets stacked in a lattice pattern in the cooling passage; inverting portions at opposite side edge portions of the lattice structure, each being open at a side edge portion and allowing the cooling medium to be inverted from a lattice flow passage defined between ribs of one rib set to a lattice flow passage defined between ribs of another rib set; and a communication flow passage defined between one side edge portion of the lattice structure and a side wall surface of the cooling passage, the communication flow passage extending in the airfoil height direction to communicate a plurality of lattice flow passages at the one side edge portion.
Rocket engine
A rocket engine having a thrust chamber bounded by a casing construction with a chamber longitudinal axis. The casing construction includes at least one cooling channel in fluidic connection with a source of a cooling medium. The cooling channel is traversed by a plurality of bridge elements around which the cooling medium flows and which each extend only over a part, in particular a minor part, of the length of the cooling channel measured along the chamber longitudinal axis, and which connect two casing wall pieces, bounding the cooling channel on the inside and on the outside of the casing construction, to one another.
COUPON FOR HOT GAS PATH COMPONENT HAVING MANUFACTURING ASSIST FEATURES
A coupon for replacing a cutout in a hot gas path component of a turbomachine is provided. The coupon includes a body having an outer surface; a chamber within the body for receiving a flow of a coolant; and a passage extending from the chamber to the outer surface of the body. The passage includes an internal portion within a wall of the body having a first perpendicular, cross-sectional area and an exit portion at the outer surface of the body having a second perpendicular, cross-sectional area that is greater than the first perpendicular, cross-sectional area.
CANTILEVERED AIRFOILS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME
Cantilevered airfoils and methods of forming the same are disclosed herein. An example airfoil disclosed herein includes an airfoil including an airfoil body including a first face and a second face, a first recessed portion formed in the first face and internal temperature-regulating features and a first insert disposed within the first recessed portion, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a first predefined curvature profile at a first temperature, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a second predefined curvature profile at a second temperature.
Turbine HGP component with stress relieving cooling circuit
A turbine hot gas path (HGP) component includes a body having an exterior surface exposed to a hot gas path, and a cooling circuit defined along an interior surface of the body and fluidly coupled to a coolant source. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of sections spaced from one another but fluidly connected. Each section includes a wall defining at least one cooling passage, and a connector wall coupling between the wall of a first section of the plurality of sections and the wall of an adjacent, second section of the plurality of sections. The wall of the first section and the wall of the adjacent, second section are spaced apart, segregating stress between the sections. The connector wall is more flexible than: the wall of the first section, the wall of the adjacent, second section, and the body, allowing stress relief between the sections.
FUEL TANK HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEM FOR FUEL CELL COOLING
A fuel tank heat dissipation system for fuel cell (FC) cooling is disclosed. in one example, at least one FC is in thermal communication with an intermediary heat exchanger. A fuel tank is also in fluid communication with the intermediary heat exchanger. A fluid is used to receive heat from the intermediary heat exchanger and flow along a first fluid path to the fuel tank. A nozzle is used to spray the fluid about an interior surface of the fuel tank, where the spray of the fluid about the interior of the fuel tank allows the fluid to dissipate the heat. A second fluid path from the fuel tank to the intermediary heat exchanger, the second fluid path to return the fluid that has dissipated the heat to the intermediary heat exchanger.