Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – With addition of steam and/or water
Patent
1988-12-14
1991-01-08
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
With addition of steam and/or water
60 3953, F02C 330, F02C 716
Patent
active
049825640
ABSTRACT:
Component members of a gas turbine engine are cooled by using an engine having a compressor for introducing air into the engine. A combustor is downstream from the compressor which has a casing, and a liner positioned in the casing. The liner is spaced apart from the casing such that a mixing region is positioned between the liner and the casing. The liner has a combustor inlet at the upstream end of the combustor. A turbine, which typically consist of one or more stages having cooling passages therein, is positioned downstream from the combustor. A steam conduit is connected to a steam inlet and the steam inlet is connected to the casing. The inlet has at least one inlet hole which connects the steam inlet with the mixing region and the inlet hole is downstream from the combustor inlet. A passageway is positioned between the mixing region and the turbine cooling passage and the passageway is downstream of the steam inlet hole. In operation steam is introduced into the mixing region downstream of the combustor inlet such as to form an air and steam mixture and then the air and steam mixture is introduced into the cooling passage.
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Casaregola Louis J.
General Electric Company
Squillaro Jerome C.
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