Patent ID: 7721555

Claim:
A gas turbine comprising: at least one compressor; at least one combustion chamber; at least one turbine; and at least one generator for generating electrical energy, the at least one generator including at least one rotor and at least one corresponding stator, the at least one rotor being a free-running generator turbine which, driven by a gas flow, rotates relative to its corresponding stator and generates electrical energy from the kinetic energy of the gas flow; and a fan module having at least one fan and a fan flow channel, a part of the gas flow from the fan module passing to the at least one compressor and another part of the pass flow passing to the fan flow channel and bypassing the at least one compressor to define a bypass gas flow, the at least one generator being positioned downstream from the at least one fan such that the at least one generator is driven by the bypass gas flow.