Gas turbine combustor transition

Patent · 31 December 1998

OSTI ID:872296

Coslow, Billy Joe ^[1]; Whidden, Graydon Lane ^[2]

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1. Winter Park, FL
2. Great Blue, CT

A method of converting a steam cooled transition to an air cooled transition in a gas turbine having a compressor in fluid communication with a combustor, a turbine section in fluid communication with the combustor, the transition disposed in a combustor shell and having a cooling circuit connecting a steam outlet and a steam inlet and wherein hot gas flows from the combustor through the transition and to the turbine section, includes forming an air outlet in the transition in fluid communication with the cooling circuit and providing for an air inlet in the transition in fluid communication with the cooling circuit.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp
• DOE Contract Number: FC21-95MC32267
• Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, FL)
• Patent Number(s): US 5906093
• OSTI ID: 872296
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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