A turbocharger variable geometry turbine of the type which includes nozzle vanes displaceable across the turbine inlet flow path into slots. The vanes have cut-outs which reduce the vane cord and permit peak turbine efficiency over a range of geometries.

Variable geometry turbine

A turbine includes a plurality of inner shell sections mounting first and second stage nozzle and shroud portions. The inner shell sections are pinned to an outer containment shell formed of sections to preclude circumferential movement of the inner shell relative to the outer shell and enable thermal expansion and contraction of the inner shell relative to the outer shell. Positive bucket tip clearance control is afforded by passing a thermal medium about the inner shell in heat transfer relation with the shrouds about the first and second stage bucket tips, the thermal medium being provided from a source of heating/cooling fluid independent of the turbine. Access is provided to the rotor and turbine buckets by removing the outer and inner shell sections.

Removable inner turbine shell with bucket tip clearance control

A turbine engine blade outer air seal segment has a body having a base portion. The base portion has a transversely concave ID face, a forward end, an aft end, and first and second circumferential edges. The body has at least one mounting hook. At least one cover plate is secured to the body to define at least one cavity. The cover plate has a plurality of feed holes. A plurality of outlet holes extend through the base portion to the ID face. At least one of the base portion and cover plate comprises a protruding portion protruding into the cavity to form a partial restriction separating circumferentially and fore-aft offset cavity portions.

Blade outer air seal

A gas turbine engine (10) includes a compressor (18), combustor (20), and turbine (22) having a row of blades (40) mounted inside a surrounding turbine shroud (44). A heat exchanger (56) is used for cooling pressurized air bled from the compressor (18). A distribution network (60-66) joins the heat exchanger (56) to the turbine (22) for selectively channeling air from the heat exchanger (56) below the blades (40) and above the shroud (44) for controlling blade tip clearance.

Compound clearance control engine

A casing for the fan section of an aircraft gas turbine engine of the turbofan type. The casing includes an inner filler material and is defined by an outer shell and an inner liner that is spaced radially inwardly from the outer shell. The inner liner is held in position relative to the outer shell by a plurality of radially-inwardly-extending support pins. The pins are carried by the outer shell and are slidably received in and extend at least partially into the inner liner. The support pins retain the inner liner against axial and rotational movement relative to the outer shell, while allowing relative radial movement therebetween in response to thermal expansion and contraction, as well as in response to aircraft maneuver loads imposed on the engine.

Fan casing liner support

Improved operation can be achieved from an enhanced gas turbine engine having a segmented annular shroud which radially expands and contracts to match the expansion and contraction of engine rotor blades. The segmented annular shroud is supported by a structure which includes an annular ring having two radially outwardly extending flanges, and forward and aft annular segmented brackets which attach the segmented shroud to the forward and aft side of the ring respectively. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, two circumferentially extending separate and distinct air impingement manifolds surrounds each of the outwardly extending flanges. Each manifold is provided with a valve for controlling the amount and temperature of the airflow entering each manifold. The air from each manifold then impinges upon each of the outwardly extending flanges, thereby controlling the radial movement of the corresponding shroud segments and the associated clearances with the rotor blade tips. The use of separate and distinct manifolds and the corresponding values which regulate the amount and temperature of airflow to each manifold allows individual shroud portions to be separately expanded or contracted.

Clearance control system for separately expanding or contracting individual portions of an annular shroud

Clearance control is provided by a shaped, integral environmental shield and circumferentially segmented cooling manifold. Each manifold has impingement rails located radially outside selected components of the stator casing. Cooling air is directed onto stator components and returns immediately through circuitous paths to improve uniformity of cooling. The structure incorporates the environmental shield into a two piece bonded structure to facilitate construction and assembly.

Integral clearance control impingement manifold and environmental shield

A tube fitting for use with a flammable fluid is disposed in an auto-ignition zone of a gas turbine engine. The tube fitting has a pair of separable casings defining a passage to accommodate flow therethrough of the flammable fluid, and the casings have a pair of seals associated in sealing engagement with each other to seal about the passage. A restriction is arranged in one of the casings for limiting at least to a preselected flow rate any leakage flow of the flammable fluid from the passage past the seals upon an interruption in the sealing engagement thereof in the event of the occurrence of the separation of the casing.

Tube fitting for a gas turbine engine

A flammable fluid-carrying tube coupling assembly for use in a gas turbine engine includes a pair of fitting members each having an inner hub portion and an outer flange portion, a seal and drain arrangement defined within an annular interface region between the fitting members, and an arrangement for releasably clamping the fitting members to one another. The inner hub portions are attachable to ends of fluid-carrying hollow tubes and disposed relative to one another so as to define a flow passage for fluid communication between the hollow tubes. The outer flange portions are attached to and extend radially outwardly from the inner hub portions and are disposed relative to one another so as to define the annular interface region between the fitting members which provides a path of potential fluid leakage from the flow passage to the exterior of the fitting members. The seal and drain arrangement includes an inner annular primary seal encircling the flow passage so as to obstruct the path of potential fluid leakage therefrom to the exterior of the fitting members, a drain channel encircling the inner annular primary seal so as to intersect the path of potential fluid leakage therefrom to the exterior of the fitting members in the event the primary seal should fail, and an outer annular secondary seal encircling the drain channel so as to obstruct the path of potential fluid leakage therefrom to the exterior of the fitting members in the event both the primary seal and the drain channel should fail.

Fluid-carrying tube coupling assembly with internal seal and drain arrangement

In a gas turbine engine, conduit delivers pressurized cooling air to a selected group of hollow struts at a temperature sufficient to induce thermal contraction of the selected group of hollow struts, thereby opposing a downward shift in the rotor axis during high power engine operation, and maintaining a circumferentially uniform tip clearance. Air baffles disposed in the cooled struts ensure radially uniform thermal contraction and efficient heat transfer.

Jeffrey Glover

Papers

Clearance control system for separately expanding or contracting individual portions of an annular shroud

Integral clearance control impingement manifold and environmental shield

Tube fitting for a gas turbine engine

Fluid-carrying tube coupling assembly with internal seal and drain arrangement

Tip clearance control apparatus and method