Abstract: A fuel system includes a fuel supply system. A plurality of fuel nozzles are connected in fluid communication with the fuel supply system to supply fuel from a fuel source to be issued for combustion from the fuel nozzles. A cooling system is included, wherein at least one of the fuel nozzles includes a cooling circuit in addition to a fuel circuit for issuing fuel from the fuel supply system for combustion. The cooling circuit includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in fluid communication with the cooling system for circulation of coolant through the cooling circuit and back to the cooling system out the outlet of the cooling circuit for cooling the fuel circuit with the fuel circuit staged off.

Abstract: A micro-mixer includes a plurality of fuel tubes through which air and fuel flow, a casing accommodating the plurality of fuel tubes therein, and a plurality of injection parts each formed as a pyramidal protrusion on one side of the casing and connected to a front end of the fuel tube to inject the air and the fuel, wherein each of the plurality of injection parts has an inclined injection hole formed obliquely with respect to an extension direction of the plurality of fuel tubes on at least one side of the pyramidal protrusion.

Abstract: A combustor for use in a gas turbine engine including a heat shield panel having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface of the heat shield panel and a combustor shell having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface. The inner surface of the combustor shell and the second surface of the heat shield panel being in a facing spaced relationship defining an impingement cavity therebetween. The combustor shell further includes an impingement aperture that has a nonaxisymmetric shape. The impingement aperture extending from the outer surface to the inner surface through the combustor shell.

Abstract: Assemblies and methods for directing a flow of air through a compressor section of a gas turbine engine are disclosed. A method includes receiving the flow of air over a strut extending radially across a substantially annular gas path of the gas turbine engine, and at least partially confining and modifying a strut wake generated in the flow of air by the strut using one or more variable orientation guide vanes.

Abstract: A combustion-gas supply system and a combustion-gas supply method thereof, a device equipped with a turbine engine, and a fracturing system are provided. The combustion-gas supply system includes a main pipeline and a multi-functional pipeline; the main pipeline includes a first sub-pipeline and a second sub-pipeline; the first sub-pipeline includes a first gas intake pipe, a first gas supply valve and a first gas outlet pipe arranged in sequence; the second sub-pipeline includes a combustion-gas supply valve and a gas supply pipe, the first gas outlet pipe is connected with the combustion-gas supply valve, the gas supply pipe is configured to be connected with a turbine engine, the multi-functional pipeline includes a second gas intake pipe, a second gas supply valve and a second gas outlet pipe arranged in sequence, and the second gas outlet pipe is communicated with the first gas outlet pipe.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air outlet of a nacelle for an aircraft turbojet engine, the nacelle forming a solid of revolution about a longitudinal axis, the air outlet having a straightening device having a plurality of flaps mounted circumferentially and protruding, each flap being mounted pivoting around a pivot axis, forming, with respect to the longitudinal axis, an angle of convergence in a radial plane, between a closed position, in which each flap extends along the pivot axis in the aerodynamic prolongation of the trailing edge in order to support a thrust phase and a deployed position, in which each flap extends in a deployed plane forming an angle of deployment with respect to the closed position about the pivot axis, so as to support a reverse thrust phase.

Abstract: A cabin blower for an aircraft, the system comprising: a cabin blower compressor; an electric machine; and a controller configured to control the cabin blower system so that: in a cabin blower mode of operation, the cabin blower compressor is driven by power extracted from one or more spools of a gas turbine engine of the aircraft and provides a flow of air to a cabin of the aircraft. The controller may be further configured to control the system so that: in a rotor bow mitigation mode of operation, the cabin blower compressor is driven by the electric machine using electrical power from an electrical power source and provides a flow of air through a core of the gas turbine engine to remove heat from the core. A method of operating a cabin blower system of an aircraft is also provided.

Abstract: A thrust reverser including a stationary structure, a lower door and an upper door. This reverser includes at least one deflector configured to be able to redirect forward from the stationary structure a portion of fluid exiting the reverser according to a trajectory oriented towards a lateral opening extending between the stationary structure and the upper door. Such a deflector makes it possible to improve the control of the air current lines acting on a tail unit and in particular on a control surface of an aircraft equipped with such a reverser when the latter is in thrust reversal configuration, thereby making it possible to improve the controllability of this aircraft.

Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine; an environmental control system (ECS); and a bleed flowpath from the gas turbine engine through the ECS. A turbine is along the bleed flowpath and a propulsion fan is mechanically coupled to the turbine to be driven by the turbine.

Abstract: A combined power generation system includes a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) configured to heat feedwater using combustion gases discharged from the gas turbine and having a high-pressure section, a medium-pressure section, and a low-pressure section having different pressure levels, an ammonia decomposer decomposing ammonia with the combustion gases discharged from the gas turbine, a first exhaust gas line through which the exhaust gases discharged from the gas turbine are transferred to the HRSG, a second exhaust gas line through which the exhaust gases discharged from the gas turbine are transferred to the ammonia decomposer, a third exhaust gas line through which the exhaust gases discharged from the ammonia decomposer are transferred to the HRSG, and a decomposed gas transfer tube connecting the ammonia decomposer and the combustor to transfer decomposed gases generated with the decomposition of ammonia to the combustor.

Abstract: A combustor of an embodiment includes: a combustor casing; a combustor liner which is provided in the combustor casing and combusts a fuel and an oxidant to produce a combustion gas; a pipe-shaped member provided to penetrate the combustor casing and the combustor liner; a heat-resistant glass which is provided on the combustor casing side in the pipe-shaped member and closes the pipe-shaped member; a laser light supply mechanism which irradiates an interior of the combustor liner through the heat-resistant glass and an interior of the pipe-shaped member with a laser light; and a contact prevention mechanism which prevents a combustion gas in the combustor liner from coming into contact with the heat-resistant glass.

Abstract: A combustor dome system includes an annular combustor dome defining a main axis therethrough. The combustor dome includes opposed upstream and downstream faces, wherein the upstream face is configured to face upstream toward a compressor discharge space, wherein the downstream face is configured to face downstream toward a combustor space. The downstream face has a curved cross-sectional profile. A plurality of nozzles extends at least partially through the combustor dome from the upstream face to the downstream face for injection of fuel into the combustor space. A fuel manifold is in fluid communication with the plurality of nozzles.

Abstract: A powerplant is provided that includes a pre-burner, a combustor, a power turbine, a mechanical load and a propellant system. The combustor is fluidly coupled with and downstream of the pre-burner. The power turbine is fluidly coupled with and downstream of the combustor. The mechanical load is rotatably driven by the power turbine. The propellant system is configured to direct fluid oxygen and fluid hydrogen to the pre-burner to provide an oxygen rich fuel mixture for combustion within the pre-burner. The propellant system is also configured to direct the fluid hydrogen to the combustor for combustion within the combustor with oxygen within combustion products received from the pre-burner.

Abstract: A hollow plank of a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber including an inner wall having a plurality of inner openings and one or more inner holes, an outer wall having one or more outer openings and a plurality of outer holes, a plurality of lateral walls coupled to the inner wall and the outer wall to define a cavity, and a partition wall connected to the plurality of lateral walls and dividing the cavity into a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity. The one or more outer openings communicate with the first sub-cavity and communicate through a plurality of tubes with the second sub-cavity. The plurality of inner openings communicate with the second sub-cavity and communicate with the first sub-cavity through one or more bypass tubes. The first sub-cavity or the second sub-cavity, or both, are frequency tuned to reduce combustion dynamic frequencies.

Abstract: A powertrain control system is provided for a vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle for urban air mobility. A powertrain of the vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle is a hybrid type powertrain, in which the output shaft of a rotor driving motor is directly connected to a rotor, a battery is connected to the rotor driving motor to supply power thereto, and an engine and a generator are connected to a battery to charge and discharge the battery. The driving of the engine and the generator is controlled based on required power of the motor and the SOC of the battery in each flight step of the vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle, and the SOC of the battery is constantly maintained at a predetermined level or higher.

Abstract: An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This aircraft propulsion system assembly includes a nacelle. The nacelle includes an inlet structure and a cowl. The inlet structure extends axially in a first direction along a centerline to an inlet structure aft end. The inlet structure includes a clip and a hoist bracket integrated with the clip. The clip is at the inlet structure aft end. The clip includes a locator receptacle. The hoist bracket is configured to provide a structural lift point for the inlet structure during assembly and/or disassembly of the nacelle. The cowl extends axially in a second direction along the centerline to a cowl forward end. The cowl includes a locator at the cowl forward end. The locator includes a protrusion received by the locator receptacle.

Abstract: Provided is a transition piece including a first flow path group formed by arraying a plurality of in-wall flow paths that extend inside a plate material forming the transition piece and a second flow path group that is positioned on a side closer to a combustor liner than the first flow path group is. Each in-wall flow path in the first flow path group and the second flow path group has an inlet that is located at one end section in a flow direction of a combustion gas and that faces a compressed air main flow path, and an outlet that is located at the other end section in the flow direction of the combustion gas and that faces a combustion gas flow path.

Abstract: A combustor includes a liner defining a combustion chamber, and receiving an air and fuel mixing body. The mixing body includes a forward face facing into the combustion chamber. A plurality of circumferentially spaced columns about a central axis of the combustor each have at least two fuel supply passages and two air supply passages extending to the forward face. At least one of the two air supply passages and one of the fuel supply passages extending along a direction with a circumferentially extending component in a first circumferential direction. The other of the two air supply passages and the fuel supply passages extend with a circumferential component in a second opposed circumferential direction. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pre-vaporizing pipe (5) for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine, comprising a generally elongate main body (50), comprising a first end portion (51) delimiting an inlet duct (52) in which a fuel injector is to be mounted, the body (50) having an external surface (500) having a first length (L1) that extends from the portion (51) to at least one first fuel outlet end piece (53), and a second length (L2) that extends the first length (L1) from the end piece (53) and that extends from the end piece (53) to a second fuel outlet end piece (54). According to the invention, inside the body (50) there is a first channel (55) connecting the duct (52) to the end piece (53) and a second channel (56) which is distinct from the first channel (55) and which connects the duct (52) to the end piece (54).

Abstract: A combustor includes an inner liner and an outer liner defining a combustion chamber. The inner liner includes an inner mesh structure, and a plurality of inner planks mounted to the inner mesh structure. The outer liner includes an outer mesh structure, and a plurality of outer planks mounted to the outer mesh structure. Each of the plurality of inner planks and outer planks includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and lateral walls defining a cavity to allow circulation of airflow within the cavity to cool down the inner wall.