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High efficiency split flow turbine for compressible fluids

US4165949A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 4, 1977
Grant dateAug 28, 1979
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Expiry dateAug 4, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S415/914
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a turbine for a compressible fluid in which the fluid flow leaving the tepenultimate stage is separated into two coaxial flows, the inner flow passes through both the penultimate and the final stages of the turbine while the outer flow passes through the final stage only. This high efficiency arrangement for the last stages of a high power turbine exploits the advantages made available by using titanium as the blade material.

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