Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Turbine bucket including cooling passage with turn
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Application No.: US14061158Application Date: 2013-10-23
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Publication No.: US09797258B2Publication Date: 2017-10-24
- Inventor: Jason Douglas Herzlinger , Harish Bommanakatte , Anthony Louis Giglio
- 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: F01D5/18
- IPC: F01D5/18

Abstract:
Turbine frequency tuning, fluid dynamic efficiency, and performance can be improved using a particular profile for a turn of a cooling passage in an airfoil. By blending aspects of baseline and bulb contours into a blended turn with a non-uniform profile, mechanical and/or thermal stress can be reduced in the turn and in an airfoil including the turn, particularly on an outflow side of the turn. Stresses on the airfoil can be reduced using a turn profile that is a blend of a baseline profile and a bulb profile and that can be described by the airfoil core profile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150110639A1 TURBINE BUCKET INCLUDING COOLING PASSAGE WITH TURN Public/Granted day:2015-04-23
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