1. An apparatus comprising:
a variable cycle gas turbine engine having a core flow passage, a tan bypass passage, and a third stream bypass passage: and
a nozzle oriented to merge the core flow passage and the third stream bypass passage, the nozzle including a first slideable member and a second slideable member defining a first flow area through which passes flow from the core flow passage, the second slideable member also defining a third stream flow area of the third stream bypass passage. wherein the second slideable member is capable of changing a flow area of both the first flow area and the third stream flow area.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a portion of working fluid traversing the third stream bypass passage is split into a first branch bypass passage and a second branch bypass passage, the first branch bypass passage forming the bypass passage merged with the core flow passage in the nozzle.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle receives a merged flow from the core flow passage and a fan bypass passage the first slideable member and the second slideable member defining a merged flow passage from the core flow passage and the fan bypass passage.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the third stream bypass passage is an annular passage at an upstream portion of the variable cycle gas turbine engine, and wherein the third stream bypass passage is split to transition horn the annular passage to an underslung passage.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4 which further includes a heat exchanger disposed in the Third stream bypass passage.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second slideable member includes a contour that changes as a function of butt line,
7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a trailing edge of the second slideable member includes a first portion at a first angle to a reference line of the gas turbine engine and an opposing second portion at a second angle to the reference line.
8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a throat of the third stream bypass passage is defined by the second slideable member, and wherein the throat has a contour different than a trailing edge of the second slideable member.
9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the throat has a contour different than a trailing edge of an exit of the nozzle.
10. An apparatus comprising:
a gas turbine engine having a core flow passage and a fan bypass passage that together are merged into a merged flow passage;
an annular shaped third stream bypass passage unwrapped from coaxial axis and ducted to an underslung configuration to form a third stream nozzle passage; and
a nozzle that receives the merged flow passage and the third stream nozzle passage, the nozzle having a dual-use moveable member disposed between the merged flow passage and the third stream nozzle passage and structured to dependently change an area of the merged flow passage and the third stream nozzle passage whereby movement of the dual-use moveable member can increase a flew area of the merged flow passage while it decreases a flow area of the third stream nozzle passage.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, which further includes a single-use moveable member that defines the merged flow passage.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the single-use moveable member and the dual-use moveable member can together define a flow are of the merged flow passage, and wherein the dual-use moveable member is translatable along an axis.
13. The apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the single-use moveable member is translatable between a relatively open position and a relatively closed position.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the dual-use moveable member is translatingly moveable along an axis of extension.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the dual-use moveable member includes a cross section that varies with butt-line, and wherein the axis of extension that the dual-use moveable member is translatingly move-able is disposed at an angle to an axis of extension over which the single-use moveable member is translatable.
16. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the single-use moveable member is translatable along a first axis that is oriented at an angle to an axis along which the dual-use moveable member is translatable.
17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the nozzle includes a single expansion ramp nozzle.
18. The apparatus according to claim 10, which further includes a third stream branch that receives wet king fluid from the annular shaped third stream bypass passage separate from the working fluid received in the third stream nozzle passage.
19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the third stream branch delivers its working fluid to the nozzle downstream of the dual-use moveable member.
20. A method comprising:
operating a gas turbine engine having a core flow path, a bypass path, and a third stream bypass path;
dusting the third stream bypass path from an annular-shaped passage to a laterally displaced passage that extends partially around the gas turbine engine; and
moving a first nozzle member to change a first nozzle flow area through which a working fluid from the core flow path traverses; and
adjusting a second nozzle member in a different manner than the moving to alter a third stream area through which a working fluid from the third stream passes; and
merging the working fluid from the core flow path with the working fluid from the third stream.
21. The method according to claim 20 wherein the adjusting includes sliding the second nozzle member to alter the third stream flow area.
22. The method according to claim 21, wherein the first nozzle flow area through which the working fluid from the core flow path traverses is also changed by the adjusting of the second nozzle member.
23. The method according to claim 22, wherein the different manner includes sliding the second nozzle member in a non-coincident manner to the moving the first nozzle member, and wherein the third stream bypass path includes a first branch and a second branch routed to separate locations in a nozzle that includes the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member.
24. The method according to claim 20, which further includes exchanging heat between a working fluid in a branch of the third stream bypass path with a heat exchanger in thermal communication with a component.
25. The method according to claim 20, which further includes moving the first nozzle member from a forward position to a rearward position when the gas turbine engine is transitioned between a cruise mode and a max thrust mode.
26. The method according to claim 20, which further includes actuating the first nozzle member to slide from a rearward position to a forward position when the gas turbine engine requested to from a dry thrust mode to an afterburning mode.
27. The method according to claim which further includes opening a second nozzle flow area during the afterburning mode, and wherein the opening of the second nozzle flow area occurs when the second nozzle member slides within a plane oriented at an angle to an axial axis of the gas turbine engine.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A management system comprising:
a plurality of power management sections which manage power information of a facility complex including a plurality of facilities divided into a plurality of management ranges; and
a system controller connected to the plurality of power management sections with communication elements, for obtaining the power information in each of the management ranges and controlling the power information of the whole of the facility complex on the basis of the obtained power information, wherein
the system controller creates a chargingdischarging instruction on the basis of the power information of the whole of the facility complex and transmits the chargingdischarging instruction to a chargingdischarging control section, wherein
the facility complex has a load-type facility consuming power;
a power management section of a load-type facility including the load-type facility in the management range includes:
a consumed power obtaining portion for obtaining actually consumed power of the load in the load-type facility; and
a saved energy amount calculation portion for calculating a saved energy amount on the basis of a power difference which is a difference between the actually consumed power and a reference power consumption determined in advance in accordance with an operating state of the load; and
the system controller produces the chargingdischarging instruction on the basis of the saved energy amount of the whole of the facility complex, and wherein
the system controller includes:
a selection order setting portion for setting a selection order of energy saving in advance in accordance with a size of an energy saving effect with respect to the load in the management range of at least one of the power management sections; and
an energy-saving instruction portion for calculating a power shortage amount of the facility complex in accordance with the power information, and instructing execution of a control method of the energy saving in compliance with the selection order of the energy saving in accordance with the power shortage amount to at least one of the power management sections.
2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein
the facility complex includes:
a solar facility having a photoelectric conversion module and a general facility in which the photoelectric conversion module is not provided;
a power detection unit on an AC power supply line side provided between an AC power supply line connected to an external commercial power supply and a power inputoutput portion on the AC power supply line side of the solar facility, for detecting a bidirectional power value, that is, a feed power value supplied from the AC power supply line side to the solar facility and a backward power value supplied to the AC power supply line side through the solar facility;
a power detection unit on the photoelectric conversion module side provided between a power input portion on the photoelectric conversion module side of the solar facility and an output portion of the photoelectric conversion module, for detecting a power value of solar power generation supplied from the photoelectric conversion module to the solar facility;
a consumed power calculation portion of the solar facility for calculating the actually consumed power of the load in the solar facility on the basis of the feed power value or the backward power value detected by the power detection unit on the AC power supply line side and a power value of the solar power generation detected by the power detection unit on the photoelectric conversion module side; and
a power detection unit of the general facility provided between a power inputoutput portion of the general facility and the AC power supply line, for detecting the feed power value supplied from the AC power supply line side to the general facility; and
a consumed power calculation portion of the general facility for calculating the actually consumed power of the load in the general facility on the basis of the feed power value detected by the power detection unit of the general facility.
3. The management system according to claim 2, wherein said system controller further has:
an overall consumed power calculation portion for calculating a consumed power value of the whole of said facility complex; and
an overall self-supplied power calculation portion for calculating a power value of solar power generation of the whole of the facility complex; and
the calculated consumed power value of the whole of the facility complex and the power value of the solar power generation of the whole of the facility complex are outputted to a display section.
4. The management system according to claim 3, wherein
the facility complex includes a power storage device building having a power storage device connected to the AC power supply line through a bidirectional power converter;
a power management section of a power storage device building including the power storage device building as the management range has a power detection unit of the power storage device building provided between an inputoutput portion on the AC power supply line side of the bidirectional power converter and the AC power supply line and detecting bidirectional power values of a charged power value supplied from the AC power supply line side to the power storage device building and a discharged power value discharged from the power storage device building to the AC power supply line side; and
the system controller has:
an overall consumed power calculation portion for calculating the consumed power value of the entire facility complex on the basis of a detected value of the power detection unit on the AC power supply line side of the solar facility, a detected value of the power detection unit of the general facility, and a detected value of the power detection unit on the photoelectric conversion module side of the solar facility; and
a supplied power calculation portion of an external commercial power supply for calculating a supplied power value from the external commercial power supply on the basis of the detected value of the power detection unit on the AC power supply line side of the solar facility, the detected value of the power detection unit of the general facility, the detected value of the power detection unit on the photoelectric conversion module side of the solar facility, and the discharged power value detected by the power detection unit of the power storage device building.
5. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:
a display section for displaying data of the saved energy amount of the whole of the facility complex.
6. The management system according to claim 3, further comprising:
a display section for displaying data of the consumed power value of the whole of the facility complex and data of a power value of the solar power generation.