Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cooling structure for stationary blade
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Application No.: US14801187Application Date: 2015-07-16
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Publication No.: US09909436B2Publication Date: 2018-03-06
- Inventor: Christopher Lee Golden , Dustin Michael Earnhardt , Michelle Jessica Iduate , Bryan David Lewis , Christopher Donald Porter , David Wayne Weber
- 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: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent Ernest G. Cusick
- Main IPC: F01D9/06
- IPC: F01D9/06

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a cooling structure for a stationary blade, which can include: an endwall coupled to a radial end of an airfoil, relative to a rotor axis of a turbomachine; and a substantially crescent-shaped chamber positioned within the endwall and radially displaced from a trailing edge of the airfoil, the substantially crescent-shaped chamber receiving a cooling fluid from a cooling circuit, wherein the substantially crescent-shaped chamber extends from a fore section positioned proximal to one of a pressure side surface and a suction side surface of the airfoil to an aft section positioned proximal to the trailing edge of the airfoil and the other of the pressure side surface and the suction side surface of the airfoil, wherein the aft section of the substantially crescent-shaped chamber is in fluid communication with the fore section of the substantially crescent-shaped chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170016348A1 COOLING STRUCTURE FOR STATIONARY BLADE Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
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