Patent ID: 7000402
Filing Date: 2006-02-21
Classification: F02C

Abstract:
1. A method of operation of a gas turbine engine ( 10 ) having a compressor ( 12 ) for compressing air, a plurality of combustion chambers ( 22 a–f) in which fuel mixed with the compressed air combusts, and a turbine ( 16 ) which is driven by the products of combustion, wherein: (i) each combustion chamber operates in a cycle comprising the phases of: (ii) the cycles of the combustion chambers are out of phase in a sequence; and (iii) part of the compounded charge (and/or the products of combustion thereof) in each combustion chamber during the combustion phase thereof is transferred before the exhaust phase thereof to the next combustion chamber in the sequence to provide the compounding charge for that next combustion chamber.