Inducer assembly for a turbine engine

• Main Authors: Stover, Curtis, Proctor, Robert, Ratzlaff, Jonathan Russell, Manning, Robert Francis, Correia, Victor Hugo Silva, Stone, Timothy Deryck, Bourassa, Corey, Murray, Robert Carl, Laskowski, Gregory Michael, Buhler, Jared Peter, Pritchard, Jr., Byron Andrew
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.03.2024
• Subjects: AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; APPARATUS USING FREE VORTEX FLOW, e.g. CYCLONES; BLASTING; CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL ORCHEMICAL PROCESSES; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SEPARATION; STEAM ENGINES; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.