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Inlet for annular gas turbine combustor

US4177637A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 19, 1977
Grant dateDec 11, 1979
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Expiry dateDec 19, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T50/60
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Combustion equipment for a gas turbine engine comprises an annular flame tube having a circumferential array of upstream projecting pots or vortex generators at its upstream end, an annular diffusing passageway located upstream of the pots and terminating adjacent the upstream ends of the pots, and a plurality of tubular ducts, one extending from the annular diffusing passageway to the upstream end of each pot.

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