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Axial thermal medium delivery tubes and retention plates for a gas turbine rotor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:874729
In a multi-stage turbine rotor, tubes are disposed in openings adjacent the rotor rim for flowing a thermal medium to rotor buckets and returning spent thermal medium. The tubes have axially spaced lands of predetermined wall thickness with thin-walled tube sections between the lands and of increasing thickness from the forward to the aft ends of the tubes. A pair of retention plates are carried on the aft end face of the aft wheel and straddle the tube and engage against a shoulder on the tube to preclude displacement of the tube in an aft direction.
Research Organization:
General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)
DOE Contract Number:
FC21-95MC31176
Assignee:
General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)
Patent Number(s):
US 6450768
OSTI ID:
874729
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Advances in Steam Path Technology journal April 1996
Development Requirements for an Advanced Gas Turbine System journal October 1995