Patent ID: 9541003
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: F01D,F02C,F04D

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a gas turbine engine having an inlet structured to capture an inlet flow stream and deliver it to rotating turbomachinery components of the gas turbine engine; a particle separator having a dirty flow path and a clean flow path, the dirty flow path oriented to withdraw particles from the inlet flow stream, the clean flow path in flow communication with the rotating turbomachinery components; a pressure source separate from the rotating turbomachinery components of the gas turbine engine and capable of producing a flow of pressurized fluid, the pressure source in flow communication with a conduit; and an ejector structured to receive the conduit and the dirty flow path, wherein the pressurized fluid flowing in the conduit is entrained with a dirty flow conveyed in the dirty flow path.