US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 13 for "Gas turbine engine with entrained particle agglomerators and method" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,667, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas turbine engine with entrained particle agglomerators and method" was invented by JinQuan Xu (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having an axial centerline is provided that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, an outer casing, an inner diffuser case, a turbine section, a particle separator, and a particle agglomerator. The outer casing is disposed radially outside of and spaced apart from an annular combustor. A diffuser outer diameter (OD) flow path is disposed radially between the outer casing and the outer co...