F05D2270/3062

Turbine stage cooling

A turbine injection system for a gas turbine engine includes a first end operable to receive air from a heat exchanger, a second end operable to distribute mixed cooling air to a turbine stage, an opening downstream of said first end and a mixing plenum downstream of said first end and said opening. The opening provides a direct fluid pathway into said turbine injection system.

COOLING OF THE OIL CIRCUIT OF A TURBINE ENGINE
20180094584 · 2018-04-05 · ·

The invention relates to a turbine engine, such as a turbojet engine or a turboprop engine of an aeroplane, including at least one oil circuit (8) and cooling means (16) for cooling the oil of said circuit (8), the cooling means (16) including a refrigerant circuit (17) provided with a first heat exchanger (18) capable of exchanging heat between the refrigerant and the air and forming a condenser, a second heat exchanger (19) capable of exchanging heat between the refrigerant and the oil of the oil circuit and forming an evaporator, a pressure reducer (20), a compressor (21) and first regulator means (31) capable of regulating the pressure of the refrigerant entering the first exchanger (18).

Integral metering feature, systems and methods

A swirler tube is disclosed. A swirler is provided comprising a flange defining a first surface, a tube extending away from the first surface, a flow surface defined by a flange inner surface and a tube inner surface, the flange inner surface having an inlet diameter, and a metering feature disposed on the flow surface, wherein the metering feature is integral to the tube, the metering feature have a metering feature diameter that is less than the inlet diameter.

Method and apparatus for controlling modulated cooling of a gas turbine component

A method of modulating the cooling of a gas turbine component is disclosed. The method includes determining a target component temperature at which the gas turbine component can be maintained without the gas turbine component experiencing a failure over the course of an indicated life of the gas turbine component; scheduling a cooling air value to the target component temperature; and determining one or more of a demanded cooling air temperature and a demanded cooling air mass flow rate based on the scheduled cooling air value.

ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR GENERATOR IN POWER TRAIN

The disclosure provides an apparatus including a temperature sensor configured to monitor a temperature of a generator component of a power train assembly. The power train assembly includes a power train component in thermal communication with a cooling fluid and mounted on a same shaft as the generator component. A controller is coupled to the temperature sensor and a heat exchange circuit for adjusting a temperature of the cooling fluid. The controller calculates a target temperature for the generator component based on a target thrust bearing parameter or a target vibration parameter for the power train assembly and adjusts a delivery of the cooling fluid to the power train component based on a difference between the monitored temperature and the target temperature.

Systems and methods for path optimization
12190267 · 2025-01-07 · ·

A system optimizes data transmission along network paths includes a communications interface; a processor, and a non-transient computer-readable storage medium having machine instructions for path optimizing and sequencing data transmission. The processor is configured to receive a model of a utility of data transmission in the network, receive a job that includes a sequence of data transmission tasks that optimize the utility of the data transmission; determine that a sequencing process represents an intractable problem; identify a best task insertion order for inserting tasks into a sequence, retaining as a current best task insertion order, a task insertion order that produces a current best score of a general utility function, until a stopping condition is reached; and using the current best task insertion order, apply the tasks to optimize the sequence of tasks of the job.

Valve for controlling heat exchanges in an oil circuit
09752704 · 2017-09-05 · ·

A valve for regulating the temperature of an oil flow, includes a first inlet channel, a second inlet channel and an outlet channel, the second inlet channel and the outlet channel being capable of cooperating with a temperature regulator. One of the inlet channels includes an oil flow regulator controlled by a computer by generation of an electrical set value respecting a control law configured within the computer, the control law being slaved by an oil flow temperature sensor, the electrical set value controlling opening and closing of the regulator, the regulation law generating an alternation of open and closed states of the flow regulator so as to achieve a required average temperature of the oil flow over a given period.

Turbine component having surface cooling channels and method of forming same

A component for a turbine engine includes a substrate that includes a first surface, and an insert coupled to the substrate proximate the substrate first surface. The component also includes a channel. The channel is defined by a first channel wall formed in the substrate and a second channel wall formed by at least one coating disposed on the substrate first surface. The component further includes an inlet opening defined in flow communication with the channel. The inlet opening is defined by a first inlet wall formed in the substrate and a second inlet wall defined by the insert.

Power generation system exhaust cooling

An airflow control system for a gas turbine system according to an embodiment includes: a compressor component of a gas turbine system for generating an excess flow of air; a mixing area for receiving an exhaust gas stream produced by the gas turbine system; an air extraction system for extracting at least a portion of the excess flow of air generated by the compressor component of the gas turbine system to provide bypass air; and diverting the bypass air into the mixing area to reduce a temperature of the exhaust gas stream; and an exhaust processing system for processing the reduced temperature exhaust gas stream.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INJECTING TEMPERING AIR FOR HOT SCR CATALYST
20170204786 · 2017-07-20 ·

A gas turbine system includes a gas turbine engine, an exhaust processing system disposed downstream of and fluidly coupled to the gas turbine engine, and an air delivery system that may supply treated air to the gas turbine engine and the exhaust processing system. The air delivery system includes a main air duct fluidly coupled to the gas turbine engine and that may supply a first portion of the treated air to the gas turbine engine, an auxiliary air duct fluidly coupled to the main air duct and the exhaust processing system and that may supply a second portion of the treated air to the exhaust processing system, and an air treatment unit fluidly coupled to the main air duct and that may generate the treated air.