Particle separators for turbomachines and method of operating the same

US12345200B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Satoshi Atsuchi · Niskayuna, US
• Corey Bourassa · Mechanicville, US
• James R. Noel · Lynn, US
• Erich Alois Krammer · West Chester, US
• Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr. · Loveland, US
• Mehmet Dede · Kyles, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 2023
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2025
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/60
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A turbine engine that includes a compressor section configured to receive particle-laden fluid and to at least partially compress the particle-laden fluid, and a primary fluid passageway fluidly coupled with the compressor section and including opposing first and second walls where the primary fluid passageway receives the particle-laden fluid that is compressed by the compressor section. One or more bleed holes in the first wall or the second wall fluidly couple the primary fluid passageway with an auxiliary flow passageway. At least one separator body is disposed in and extends along the primary fluid passageway. A support device couples to a portion of the at least one separator body.