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Starting means for a gas turbine engine

US4417439A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 29, 1981
Grant dateNov 29, 1983
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Expiry dateJul 29, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02C7/26
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Improvement to the starting characteristics of an annular combustor for a gas turbine engine that employs dual fuel nozzles (primary and secondary fuel flow systems) by redistributing the total fuel admitted to the nozzles in an asymmetrical pattern to deliver the requisite amount of fuel to the igniter by the primary flow system feeding fuel to that igniter.

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