Patent ID: 9347328
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: F01D,F02C,F05D

Claim Text:
1. A compressed air supply system for routing compressed air from a compressor to at least one combustor of a gas turbine engine, comprising: a plurality of plenums, each plenum having an upstream end in fluid communication with an inner chamber of the compressor in which air is compressed and having a downstream end in fluid communication with the at least one combustor; wherein the plurality of plenums comprises a plurality of plenums meshed together such that mouths at the upstream end of the plenums form a continuous ring radially outward from compressor blades; wherein each of the plenums extend downstream from the mouth generally tangential to a flow path of an outermost point on a compressor blade and extends axially, wherein the plenum curves radially outward such that the plenum extends generally radially outward; and a flow conditioner at a downstream end of the at least one plenum that is formed from a cylindrical exhaust opening surrounded by the at least one plenum that is larger than a diameter of the cylindrical exhaust opening.