Gas turbine system and moving unit including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11713691-B2
Application number	US-202017625249-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2020
Priority date	Jul 12, 2019
Publication date	Aug 1, 2023
Grant date	Aug 1, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a gas turbine system that is used for a moving body including a thrust generator configured to generate thrust from electric power and includes: a compressor that compresses external air to generate compressed air; a combustor that burns the compressed air generated by the compressor together with fuel to generate a combustion gas; a turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor; a first generator that is coupled to the turbine to generate electric power by driving of the turbine and supplies electric power to the thrust generator; and a second generator that is arranged downstream of the turbine in a flow direction of a combustion gas and converts kinetic energy and/or thermal energy of a combustion gas that passed through the turbine into electric power.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gas turbine system used for a moving body comprising a thrust generator configured to generate thrust from electric power, the gas turbine system comprising:
a compressor that compresses external air to generate a compressed air;
a combustor that burns the compressed air generated by the compressor together with fuel to generate a combustion gas;
a turbine driven by the combustion gas generated by the combustor;
a first generator that is coupled to the turbine to generate electric power by driving of the turbine and supplies electric power to the thrust generator;
at least one second generator that is arranged downstream of the turbine in a flow direction of the combustion gas and converts kinetic energy and/or thermal energy of the combustion gas that passed through the turbine into electric power; and
an exhaust unit that guides the combustion gas that passed through the turbine to outside,
wherein the exhaust unit has an inner wall member formed in a cylindrical shape and extending along an axis line about which the turbine rotates and an outer wall member formed in a cylindrical shape and extending along the axis line and arranged so as to surround an outer circumference side of the inner wall member, and
wherein the inner wall member and the outer wall member cause the combustion gas discharged from the turbine to flow and form an annular channel about the axis line, and
the gas turbine system further comprising a distribution unit that distributes the combustion gas flowing into the annular channel to a plurality of separation channels arranged in a plurality of portions in a circumferential direction about the axis line,
wherein the first generator is arranged in an accommodation space formed on an inner circumference side of the inner wall member, and
wherein the second generator is arranged in each of the plurality of separation channels.

2. The gas turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the separation channels has a diffuser-like shape whose cross-sectional area gradually increases toward downstream in the flow direction of the combustion gas from a position at which the second generator is arranged.

3. A moving body comprising:
the gas turbine system according to claim 1 ; and
a thrust generator that generates thrust from electric power generated by the gas turbine system.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Nakatani Yuichi
• Morisaki Yuki

Classifications

• B64D27/33

  Hybrid electric aircraft · CPC title

• F01D15/10 Primary

  Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, electric generators · CPC title

• B64D41/00

  Power installations for auxiliary purposes · CPC title

• F02C3/04

  having a turbine driving a compressor (power transmission arrangements F02C7/36; control of working fluid flow F02C9/16) · CPC title

• F02C6/00

  Plural gas-turbine plants; Combinations of gas-turbine plants with other apparatus; Adaptations of gas-turbine plants for special use · CPC title