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GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH HEAT PIPE SYSTEM

  • US 20180209342A1
  • Filed: 01/23/2017
  • Published: 07/26/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A gas turbine engine comprising:

  • a rotor section proximate to a combustor section, wherein the rotor section is subject to bowing effects due to thermal differences and heat transfer at engine shutdown; and

    a heat pipe system comprising one or more heat pipes installed between an upper portion of the rotor section and a lower portion of the rotor section, the heat pipe system operable to accept heat at a hot side of the heat pipe system at the upper portion, flow heat from the hot side to a cold side of the heat pipe system, and reject heat from the cold side of the heat pipe system at the lower portion to reduce a thermal differential between the upper portion and the lower portion at engine shutdown.

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