Gas turbine engine

Patent · Tue Nov 04 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5312917

Christ, D

A gas turbine engine is described comprising a housing having two opposing end walls; at least two rotatable circular discs concentrically arranged on a drive shaft and being tightly adjacent to each other, transmission means interconnecting the discs and drive shaft such that the discs are rotatable in counter directions and are adapted to drive the drive shaft in the same direction, each disc tightly engaging an adjacent one of the end walls at an end face thereof; ignition means; an end wall adjacent to a first of the discs having at least one inlet opening periodically connected with a compressor and fuel supply means for supplying an air-fuel mixture. The first disc is formed with first partial combustion chambers arranged over a circumference of the first disc and each having an inlet and an outlet. The outlet is provided at a side of the first disc facing the second disc and inclined in a direction of rotation of the second disc. The second disc is formed with second partial combustion chambers arranged over a circumference of the second disc and each having an inlet adapted to and communicating with an outlet of one of the first partial combustion chambers so that upon rotation of the discs. The inlet of a respective second partial combustion chamber can be aligned flush with the outlet of a respective first partial combustion chamber. Each outlet of each second partial combustion chamber is inclined in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the second disc and is arranged at a side of the disc opposite to that of which the inlet of the second partial combustion chamber is located so that a deflection occurs within each disc between each inlet and each outlet of each partial combustion chamber and such a deflection in the first disc is opposite to the deflection in the second disc.

• Assignee: NOV; EDB-88-073023; NOV-88-001073
• Patent Number(s): US 4620414
• OSTI ID: 5312917
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330103* -- Internal Combustion Engines-- Turbine
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
COMPRESSORS
DESIGN
ENGINES
FUEL SYSTEMS
GAS TURBINE ENGINES
HEAT ENGINES
IGNITION SYSTEMS
INCLINATION
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MACHINE PARTS
MECHANICAL TRANSMISSIONS
MOTION
ROTATION
SHAFTS