Jet pump for depressurizing lubrication chambers of a turbomachine, having independent double injectors

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9790856-B2
Application number	US-201214435737-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2012
Priority date	Oct 19, 2012
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

Device for depressurizing at least one chamber (E 1 , E 2 ) of a turbomachine ( 1 ) intended to accommodate at least one bearing ( 7, 8 ) of a rotor of said turbomachine, which bearing is supplied with lubricating oil under pressure by a feed pump ( 15 ) and by an oil feed duct ( 16 ), said device comprising at least one breather tube ( 10 ) connected to said chamber in order to extract an oil mist therefrom, an oil separator ( 30 ) able to separate the oil from the air in said mist and a jet pump ( 11 ) pneumatically connected to said chamber by said breather tube and said oil separator, said pump comprising a pump tube ( 17 ) into which there open a primary circuit ( 21 ) supplied with fluid under pressure via a fluid feed duct and a secondary circuit ( 22 ) connected to said oil separator in order to place the chamber under a reduced pressure, characterized in that the primary circuit ( 21 ) comprises at least two pressurized-fluid injectors ( 13, 24 ) positioned in said tube and fed independently of one another.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Device for depressurising at least one chamber of a turbine engine intended to accommodate at least one bearing of a rotor of said turbine engine, said bearing being supplied with lubricating oil under pressure by a supply pump and by an oil supply pipe, and said device comprising at least one breather tube connected to said chamber in order to extract a mist of oil therefrom, an air-oil separator capable of separating the oil from the air in said mist and a jet pump connected pneumatically to said chamber by said breather tube and said air-oil separator, said pump comprising a pump tube into which there open a primary circuit supplied with a fluid under pressure by a fluid supply pipe and a secondary circuit connected to said air-oil separator in order to depressurise the chamber, the primary circuit comprising at least two pressurised-fluid injectors positioned in said pump tube and supplied independently of one another, characterised in that the injectors are rails perforated by injection holes, extending radially across the pump tube.

2. Device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the injectors is supplied by a pipe that has a valve for adjusting the pressure of the flow that passes through it.

3. Device according to claim 2 , wherein each injector is supplied by a pipe that has a valve.

4. Device according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of said valves is a two-position valve.

5. Device according to any of claim 1 , wherein the injection holes of the rails are equal in number.

6. Turbine engine comprising a device for depressurising one of its bearing lubrication chambers according to claim 1 .

7. Device according to any of claim 1 , wherein the total area of the injection holes is different between the rails.

Assignees

• Snecma

Inventors

• Trohel Mathieu

Classifications

• F05D2260/602

  Drainage · CPC title

• F05D2240/50

  Bearings · CPC title

• F04F5/46

  Arrangements of nozzles · CPC title

• F04F5/02

  the inducing fluid being liquid · CPC title

• F01D25/20

  using lubrication pumps · CPC title