Patent ID: 7434400

Claim:
A gas turbine power plant, said power plant comprising: (a) a compressor section, said compressor section comprising (1) an inlet for supply of gas to be compressed; (2) a rotor, said rotor having a central axis and adapted for rotary motion thereabout, said rotor extending radially outward from said central axis to an outer surface portion having an outer extremity; (3) one or more supersonic shock compression ramps, each one of said supersonic shock compression ramps forming a features on said outer surface portion of said rotor; (4) a stationary peripheral wall, said stationary peripheral wall (i) positioned radially outward from said central axis, and (ii) positioned very slightly radially outward from said outer extremity of said rotor; and (iii) having an interior surface portion; (5) said one or more supersonic shock compression ramps and said stationary peripheral wall cooperating to compress said gas therebetween; (6) one or more strakes, each of said one or more strakes provided adjacent to one of said or more supersonic compression ramps, and at least a portion of each of said one or more strakes extending outward from at least a portion of said outer surface portion of said rotor to a point adjacent said interior surface portion of said peripheral wall, and wherein said one or more strakes effectively separate said inlet gas from compressed gas downstream of each one of said supersonic gas compression ramps; and (b) a gas turbine section, said gas turbine section comprising (1) a combustor, said combustor including (i) a high pressure combustion air chamber receiving combustion air from said compressor section, (ii) a burner section receiving fuel from a fuel supply source and air from said combustion air chamber to burn said fuel and to create energetic combustion gases exiting therefrom, (2) one or more gas turbines, said gas turbines operatively affixed to said shaft, said gas turbines adapted to receiving hot pressurized combustion gases from said combustor and to expand said hot pressurized combustion gases outward therethrough by reacting said gases with said one ore more gas turbines, to produce shaft power; (3) an exhaust gas outlet, said exhaust gas outlet adapted to receive said hot pressurized combustion gases after passage through said one or more gas turbines.