F02C3/305

DEVICE FOR TEMPORARILY INCREASING TURBOMACHINE POWER

A device for temporarily increasing power in order to increase the power from at least one first turbine engine and from at least one second turbine engine, the device including a tank of coolant liquid, a first injection circuit connected to the tank and leading to at least one injection nozzle configured to be installed upstream from the first turbine engine, a second injection circuit connected to the tank and leading to at least one injection nozzle configured to be installed upstream from the second turbine engine, each of the first and second injection circuits including at least one first valve and at least one second valve arranged upstream from said at least one first valve, and a bridge pipe connecting together the first injection circuit and the second injection circuit upstream from their respective first valves and downstream from their respective second valves.

EXTENDED GAS TURBINE PROCESS HAVING AN EXPANDER
20210123377 · 2021-04-29 · ·

A power plant including a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine, and a compressor air line, which connects the compressor to the combustion chamber, a first heat exchanger connected into the compressor air line and into an exhaust line branching off the turbine. A first expander is arranged between the first heat exchanger and the combustion chamber in the compressor air line, and the first expander and the compressor are arranged on a common shaft.

Flow multiplier systems for aircraft
10968825 · 2021-04-06 · ·

Flow multiplier systems for aircraft are described herein. A flow multiplier system includes a turbo-compressor having a compressor, a turbine, and a drive shaft coupled between the compressor and the turbine. A compressor outlet of the compressor is fluidly coupled to an ejector in a gas turbine engine. The system also includes a supply line fluidly coupling a compressed air tank and a turbine inlet and a valve coupled to the supply line. The system includes a controller configured to, based on an input signal requesting to increase output power of the gas turbine engine, send a command signal to open the valve to enable a flow of pressurized air from the compressed air tank to the turbine inlet. The turbine drives the compressor to create high pressure air at the compressor outlet, which is provided into the gas turbine engine to increase the output power.

HYDROGEN FUELED TURBINE ENGINE PINCH POINT WATER SEPARATOR
20230407768 · 2023-12-21 ·

A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a gas generating core engine that generates an exhaust gas flow that is expanded through a turbine section. A power turbine engine is forward of the core engine and is coupled to drive a propulsor. A hydrogen fuel system supplies hydrogen fuel to the combustor through a fuel flow path. A condenser extracts water from the exhaust gas flow. A water separator is in communication with the condenser and directs the extracted water to a water storage tank. An evaporator receives a portion of the water that is extracted by the condenser and generates a steam flow. The steam flow is injected into the core flow path upstream of the turbine section.

Supplementary air injection system for gas turbines
11053851 · 2021-07-06 · ·

The present invention discloses embodiments for a power augmentation system of a gas turbine engine resulting in performance improvements while also improving efficiency. The invention provides systems and methods for generating a heated air supply by way of mixing compressed air from an electrically-driven process with air drawn from the engine compressor discharge plenum.

Method of increasing the safety of a power plant, and a power plant suitable for implementing the method

The present invention relates to a method of increasing the safety of a power plant provided with at least one heat engine and a gearbox (BTP), the engine driving the gearbox (BTP), the gearbox (BTP) having a lubrication system implemented using an aqueous medium stored in a reserve, in which method a fluid comprising water is injected into the heat engine to increase the power developed by the heat engine without increasing the temperature of a member of the heat engine or to decrease the temperature without modifying the power developed by the engine, the fluid being taken from the reserve.

Annular injection apparatus for wet compression
10883511 · 2021-01-05 · ·

A technical object of the present invention is to provide an annular injection apparatus for wet compression which enables sprayed droplets to maximally evaporate without being drained as condensate water, thereby reducing compression work of the compressor. To this end, the annular injection apparatus for wet compression according to the present invention is an annular injection apparatus for wet compression which is used for a compressor including a nose cone and a bell mouth in an inlet of a flow path, in which droplets are sprayed to a portion except for portions directed toward the nose cone and the bell mouth.

Reducing the load consumed by gas turbine compressor and maximizing turbine mass flow
10823054 · 2020-11-03 ·

The invention is applicable to industrial gas turbines to reduce the load consumed by the gas turbine compressor and to maximize the turbine mass flow.

JET ENGINE AND METHOD OF OPERATION
20200338494 · 2020-10-29 ·

A jet engine assembly and a method of operation in which nitrogen is removed from air using a nitrogen adsorption system to create an O.sub.2-rich product which adds to the air combusted in the jet engine, thus reducing fuel usage. In addition, a nitrogen product produced by the nitrogen adsorption system is preferably used for producing greater thrust.

Systems and methods for selectively augmenting power output of a gas turbine engine

Systems and methods for augmenting power output when operating a load having relatively brief periods of high energy demand and high heat generation. A system comprises a gas turbine engine including a coolant injection assembly, an electrical generator coupled to the gas turbine engine, a high-energy operating load coupled to the electrical generator, and a cooling system adapted to provide cooling to the high-energy operating load. The cooling system is coupled and adapted to provide coolant to the coolant injection assembly of the gas turbine engine. A method comprises coupling the cooling system to the coolant injection assembly at the inlet of the gas turbine engine, selectively diverting at least a portion of the coolant of the cooling system to the coolant injection assembly, and spraying the diverted coolant into air entering the gas turbine engine.