General Electric Company

Andrew James Jenkins

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Nicole Jessica Tibbetts

Evan Jarrett Dolley

Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr

Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni

Stephen Francis Rutkowski

Byron Andrew Pritchard

John Watt

Christopher Perrett

Vincent Gerard Lauria

Mark Alan Rosenzweig

Sean Robert Keith

Keith Anthony Lauria

Michael Robert Millhaem

Brian Kalb

Martin Matthew Morra

Alistair Searing

Timothy Mark Sambor

Anshul Kaushik

Mark Alan Rhoads

Deepika Sachdeva

Mohammad Kashfuddoja

A method of cleaning a component within a turbine that includes disassembling the turbine engine to provide a flow path to an interior passageway of the component from an access point. The component has coked hydrocarbons formed thereon. The method further includes discharging a flow of cleaning solution towards the interior passageway from the access point, wherein the cleaning solution is configured to remove the coked hydrocarbons from the component.

Methods of cleaning a component within a turbine engine

System for selectively contacting a cleaning composition with a surface of a turbine engine component is presented. The system includes a cleaning apparatus and a manifold assembly. The cleaning apparatus includes an upper portion and a lower portion defining a cleaning chamber configured to allow selective contact between the cleaning composition and a surface of the first portion of the turbine engine component. The upper portion includes a plurality of fill holes in fluid communication with the cleaning chamber, and the lower portion includes a plurality of drain holes in fluid communication with the cleaning chamber. The manifold assembly is configured to selectively circulate the cleaning composition from a reservoir to the cleaning chamber via the plurality of fill holes, and recirculate the cleaning composition from the cleaning chamber to the reservoir via the plurality of drain holes. Methods for selectively cleaning a turbine engine component is also presented.

System and methods for selective cleaning of turbine engine components

A fan system of a turbine includes a fan mid shaft made of a coated steel material configured to extend along a center axis of a turbine. The fan mid shaft having an inner diameter surface. The fan system includes a dry film lubricant that is configured to be applied to at least a portion of the inner diameter surface of the fan mid shaft.

Turbine fan system and method

A cleaning system and method uses a tank holding a fluid detergent and an equipment assembly formed from a plurality of discrete components joined together. One or more ultrasound transducers remove one or more deposits on the equipment assembly by generating and propagating high frequency ultrasound waves into the fluid detergent while the equipment assembly is in contact with the fluid detergent.

Equipment cleaning system and method

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Andrew James Jenkins