Gas turbine engine component cooling system

Patent · Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5165525

Colman, M E; Goeller, R E

In a gas turbine engine including a compressor supported in an annular frame, the frame having a front frame portion extending upstream of the compressor, the front frame having radially inner and outer surfaces, the inner surface defining a flowpath to the compressor, a system is described for cooling an engine component which consists of: the front frame including an aperture extending therethrough; a housing for mounting the engine component therein, including a plurality of heat transfer fins extending outwardly therefrom; and the housing being mounted to the radially outer surface of the front frame so that the heat transfer fins extend through the aperture and into the flowpath.

• Assignee: General Electric Co., Lynn, MA
• Patent Number(s): US 4608819
• OSTI ID: 5165525
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 27 Dec 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
GAS TURBINE ENGINES
COOLING SYSTEMS
APERTURES
COMPRESSORS
FINS
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENGINES
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
OPENINGS
330103* - Internal Combustion Engines- Turbine