Patent ID: 8628627

Claim:
An apparatus for cleaning wing mounted gas turbine engines, comprising: means for pressurizing an aqueous wash medium, wherein said means comprises an automated, low-pressure water delivery system operating from about 200 psi to about 725 psi; means for incorporating additives and/or detergents into the wash medium; a manifold and injection nozzle assembly, having a plurality of nozzles mounted on a moveable manifold that is fluidly connected to a source of wash medium, the manifold positionable directly in front of an air inlet of a gas turbine engine for delivering the wash medium into the air inlet of the gas turbine engine and connectable to the gas turbine engine; and means for actively, through suction of the engine exhaust airflow, collecting the aqueous wash medium after said medium transverses the engine, wherein the means for actively collecting the aqueous wash medium includes a vertically extending front face that is positionable at an outlet of the engine to receive a substantially horizontal airflow.