INDUCER ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE

Organization Name

General Electric Company

Inventor(s)

Timothy Deryck Stone of Liberty Township OH (US)

Gregory Michael Laskowski of Rowley MA (US)

Robert Proctor of West Chester OH (US)

Curtis Stover of Mason OH (US)

Robert Francis Manning of Newburyport MA (US)

Victor Hugo Silva Correia of Milton Mills NH (US)

Jared Peter Buhler of Tewksbury MA (US)

Robert Carl Murray of Rotterdam NY (US)

Corey Bourassa of Mechanicville NY (US)

Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr. of Loveland OH (US)

Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff of Loveland OH (US)

INDUCER ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18442719 titled 'INDUCER ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE

Original Abstract Submitted

A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section. At least one centrifugal separator is fluidly coupled to the bypass stream, where the at least one centrifugal separator includes a body, a center body, a separator inlet, and a separator outlet fluidly coupled with the turbine section to output a reduced-particle stream that is provided to the turbine section for cooling. The centrifugal separator includes an angular velocity increaser, a flow splitter, a first outlet passage defined by an inner annular wall that receives the reduced-particle stream, and an angular velocity decreaser located downstream of the flow splitter. A second outlet passage receives the concentrated-particle stream.