Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flow sleeve for thermal control of a double-walled turbine shell and related method
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Application No.: US15236544Application Date: 2016-08-15
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Publication No.: US10024189B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Radu Ioan Danescu , David Martin Johnson , Kenneth Damon Black , Christopher Paul Cox , Ozgur Bozkurt
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: F01D25/12
- IPC: F01D25/12 ; F01D25/08 ; F01D11/24 ; F01D19/02 ; F01D25/26

Abstract:
A turbine casing includes at least one shell adapted to enclose one or more turbine stages in a gas turbine engine; an air inlet in the at least one shell; a flow sleeve secured to an inside surface of the at least one shell, the flow sleeve comprising at least two arcuate segments. Each arcuate segment includes an arcuate base, a pair of sidewalls extending radially outwardly of the base thereby forming a circumferentially-extending flow channel defined by the base, the sidewalls and the inside surface. The air inlet is aligned with the flow channel and the sleeve is configured to distribute air flowing in the channel into spaces proximate the one or more turbine stages in circumferential, radial and axial directions, including along the inside surface of the at least one shell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160348534A1 FLOW SLEEVE FOR THERMAL CONTROL OF A DOUBLE-WALLED TURBINE SHELL AND RELATED METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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