Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Combustion products generator
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-30
2011-12-20
Gartenberg, Ehud (Department: 3741)
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Combustion products generator
C060S800000, C060S039370
Reexamination Certificate
active
08079219
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a combustor seal including a seal support locatable at a first combustor component and having a plurality of through impingement holes. A wave-shaped seal located at the seal support and defining at least one seal cavity between the wave-shaped seal and the seal support. A peak of the wave-shaped seal is locatable at a second combustor component. The wave-shaped seal includes at least one through passageway located upstream of the peak capable of flowing cooling fluid therethrough into the at least one seal cavity and through the plurality of impingement holes thereby cooling the first combustor component. Further disclosed is a combustor including a combustor seal and a method for cooling a first combustor component.
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Johnson Thomas Edward
Melton Patrick Benedict
Cantor & Colburn LLP
Gartenberg Ehud
General Electric Company
Mantyla Michael B
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