ENGINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAID ENGINE

摘要

Disclosed is an engine, the engine having a compressor, an expansion machine, and a shaft, the shaft having a direction of rotation. The engine includes a compressed fluid main flow path, a flow divider arranged at and fluidly connected to the compressed fluid main flow path, and a duct fluidly connecting the flow divider and components of the expansion machine. The duct is arranged such that, when the engine is operated, a fluid is guided through the duct from the flow divider towards the expansion machine components. A flow deflector device is arranged within a flow path and configured to deflect and thereby accelerate a flow therethrough directed form the flow divider towards the expansion machine components in a tangential direction, wherein the deflection can be effected into the shaft direction of rotation.

主权项

1. An engine comprising: a compressor, an expansion machine, and a shaft,
the shaft having a direction of rotation, the engine including a compressed fluid main flow path, a flow divider means arranged at and fluidly connected to a compressor main flow path, a duct fluidly connecting the flow divider and expansion machine components and arranged such that, when the engine is operated, a fluid is guided through the duct from the flow divider to said expansion machine components,wherein a flow deflector device is arranged within a flow path provided by any of the flow divider means and said duct, said flow deflector device being arranged and configured to deflect a flow therethrough directed from the flow divider toward the expansion machine components in a tangential direction.