Axial flow turbine

Patent · Tue Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:7093149

Bahniuk, E

An axial flow turbine producing propulsion thrust is described comprising: an engine body; rotor means mounted in the engine body for free rotation about an axis; compression gas passages in the engine body defining a continuous combustion fluid compression path, means for injecting fuel into the compression path following the compression zones; a combustion chamber for receiving the compressed fluid and the fuel; expansion gas passages in the engine body for directing combustion gases from the combustion chamber axially through a portion of the annular path of the blades from the inlet side to the outlet side to impart mechanical energy to rotor means.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-88-026133; EDB-88-169240
• Patent Number(s): US 4757682
• OSTI ID: 7093149
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330103* -- Internal Combustion Engines-- Turbine
AXIAL SYMMETRY
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
COMPRESSED GASES
DESIGN
ENGINES
FLUID FLOW
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUIDS
FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS
FUEL SYSTEMS
GAS FLOW
GAS TURBINE ENGINES
GASES
HEAT ENGINES
HYDRAULICS
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MECHANICS
OPERATION
ROTORS
SYMMETRY
TURBINE BLADES