Pulse detonation assembly with cooling enhancements

• US 20060260291A1
• Filed: 05/20/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Rasheed, Adam, Wiedenhoefer, James Fredric, Tangirala, Venkat Eswarlu, Dean, Anthony John, Vandervort, Christian Lee, Pinard, Pierre Francois
• Application Number:
  US11/135,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20060260291A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 60/39.760
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 5/00 Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion
• CPC Class Codes: F02K 7/02 the jet being intermittent, i.e. pulse-jet
• CPC Class Codes: F02K 7/06 with combustion chambers having valves
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/202 by film cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 15/00 Apparatus in which combustion takes place in pulses influenced by acoustic resonance in a gas mass for generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R7/00; starting devices F23D11/42
• CPC Class Codes: F23R 7/00 Intermittent or explosive combustion chambers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Abstract

A pulse detonation (PD) assembly includes at least one PD chamber having a wall, which defines cooling holes arranged along at least a portion of the PD chamber. A manifold extends around the PD chamber. The manifold and PD chamber are separated by a bypass region. A PD assembly with reverse flow cooling includes at least one PD chamber. A sleeve extends around the PD chamber. The sleeve and PD chamber are separated by a reverse flow cooling passage configured to receive a flow of air and to flow the air in a reverse direction to supply the PD chamber. A PD assembly with bypass flow cooling includes at least one PD chamber and a manifold extending around the PD chamber(s), which are separated by a bypass region. The PD assembly further includes a mixing plenum configured to receive and mix the bypass flow from the bypass region and the detonation by-products from the PD chamber(s).

Claims

1. A pulse detonation (PD) assembly comprising:

at least one PD chamber comprising a wall which defines a plurality of cooling holes, wherein said cooling holes are arranged along at least a portion of said PD chamber; and

a manifold extending around said at least one PD chamber, wherein said manifold and said PD chamber are separated by a bypass region.

2. The PD engine assembly of claim 1, wherein said cooling holes comprise film cooling holes configured for film cooling said PD chamber.

3. The PD assembly of claim 2, wherein said film cooling holes are arranged at an angle in a range of about zero to about forty-five degrees relative to said wall.

4. The PD assembly of claim 2, wherein at least one of said film cooling holes has a chamfered opening.

5. The PD assembly of claim 1, wherein said at least one PD chamber is configured to receive a primary air flow and a fuel flow, said PD assembly further comprising:

an air source configured to supply a secondary air flow to said bypass region, and wherein said cooling holes are configured to receive at least a portion of the secondary air flow from said bypass region and to convey the respective portion of the secondary air flow into the PD chamber to cool the PD chamber.

6. The PD assembly of claim 5, further comprising a mixing plenum configured to receive excess secondary air flow from said bypass region and a plurality of detonation by-products from said PD chamber.

7. The PD assembly of claim 5, further comprising a sleeve disposed between said at least one PD chamber and said manifold, wherein said sleeve extends around said at least one PD chamber, wherein said manifold and said sleeve are separated by the bypass region, wherein said sleeve and said PD chamber are separated by an impingement cooling discharge reservoir, wherein said sleeve defines a plurality of slots, and wherein said slots are arranged along at least a portion of said sleeve.

8. The PD assembly of claim 7, wherein said slots comprise impingement cooling slots configured to receive at least a portion of said secondary air flow from said bypass region, wherein said slots are arranged along an upstream portion of said sleeve, and wherein said cooling holes are arranged along a downstream portion of said PD chamber and are configured to receive a portion of the secondary air flow from said impingement cooling discharge reservoir.

9. The PD assembly of claim 8, wherein said sleeve is attached to said manifold, wherein said impingement cooling slots are configured to convey the secondary air flow from said bypass region to said impingement cooling discharge reservoir, said PD assembly further comprising a mixing plenum configured to receive an impingement cooling discharge flow from said impingement cooling discharge reservoir and a plurality of detonation by-products from said PD chamber.

10. A pulse detonation (PD) assembly with reverse flow cooling, said PD assembly comprising:

at least one PD chamber comprising a wall; and

a sleeve extending around said at least one PD chamber, wherein said sleeve and said PD chamber are separated by a reverse flow cooling passage configured to receive a flow of air and to flow the air in a reverse direction to supply said PD chamber.

11. The PD assembly of claim 10, further comprising an air source configured to supply primary air to said reverse flow cooling passage, wherein said reverse flow cooling passage is configured to supply the primary air to said at least one PD chamber.

12. The PD assembly of claim 11, further comprising a plurality of heat transfer enhancements formed on an exterior surface of said wall, wherein said heat transfer enhancements are configured to enhance heat transfer from said PD chamber to said reverse flow cooling passage.

13. The PD assembly of claim 11, wherein said wall defines a plurality of film cooling holes arranged along at least a downstream portion of said PD chamber, and wherein said sleeve extends along an upstream portion of said at least one PD chamber, said PD assembly further comprising:

a manifold extending around said sleeve and said at least one PD chamber, wherein said manifold is separated from said sleeve and said PD chamber by a bypass region; and

a secondary air source configured to supply a secondary air flow to said bypass region.

14. The PD assembly of claim 13, wherein said film cooling holes are configured to receive at least a portion of the secondary air flow from said bypass region and to convey the respective portion of the secondary air flow into the PD chamber to cool the PD chamber.

15. The PD assembly of claim 14, further comprising a mixing plenum configured to receive excess secondary air flow from said bypass region and a plurality of detonation by-products from said PD chamber.

16. The PD assembly of claim 14, wherein said sleeve defines a plurality of impingement cooling slots configured to receive a portion of the secondary air flow from said bypass region and arranged along an upstream portion of said sleeve, and wherein said film cooling holes are arranged along the downstream portion of said PD chamber.

17. The PD assembly of claim 11, wherein said sleeve defines a plurality of impingement cooling slots configured to receive a portion of the secondary air flow from said bypass region and arranged along at least a portion of said sleeve.

18. A pulse detonation (PD) assembly with reverse flow cooling, said PD assembly comprising:

at least one PD chamber comprising a wall;

a sleeve extending around said at least one PD chamber, wherein said sleeve and said PD chamber are separated by a reverse flow cooling passage;

an air source configured to supply primary air to said reverse flow cooling passage, wherein said reverse flow cooling passage is configured to receive the primary air and to supply the primary air to said at least one PD chamber; and

a plurality of heat transfer enhancements formed on an exterior surface of said wall, wherein said heat transfer enhancements are configured to enhance heat transfer from said PD chamber to said reverse flow cooling passage.

19. The PD assembly of claim 18, further comprising:

a manifold extending around said sleeve and said at least one PD chamber, wherein said manifold is separated from said sleeve and said PD chamber by a bypass region;

a secondary air source configured to supply a secondary air flow to said bypass region; and

a mixing plenum configured to receive excess secondary air flow from said bypass region and a plurality of detonation by-products from said PD chamber,

wherein said wall defines a plurality of film cooling holes arranged along a downstream portion of said PD chamber,

wherein said sleeve extends along an upstream portion of said at least one PD chamber, and

wherein said film cooling holes are configured to receive at least a portion of the secondary air flow from said bypass region and to convey the respective portion of the secondary air flow into the PD chamber to cool the PD chamber.

20. The PD assembly of claim 19, wherein said sleeve defines a plurality of impingement cooling slots configured to receive a portion of the secondary air flow and arranged along an upstream portion of said sleeve.

21. The PD assembly of claim 18, wherein said heat transfer enhancements comprise turbulators.

22. A pulse detonation (PD) assembly comprising:

at least one PD chamber comprising a wall; and

a manifold extending around said at least one PD chamber, wherein said manifold and said PD chamber are separated by a bypass region configured to receive and conduct a bypass flow.

23. The PD assembly of claim 22, further comprising a mixing plenum configured to receive and mix the bypass flow from said bypass region and a plurality of detonation by-products from said PD chamber.

24. The PD assembly of claim 23, further comprising a plurality of heat transfer enhancements formed on an exterior surface of said wall, wherein said heat transfer enhancements are configured to enhance heat transfer from said PD chamber to said bypass region.

25. The PD assembly of claim 24, wherein said heat transfer enhancements comprise turbulators.