General Electric Company

Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Bradley James Miller

David Martin Johnson

Henry Grady Ballard, Jr

Richard William Johnson

Ian David Wilson

Kenneth Damon Black

Ibrahim Sezer

Bradley Graham Moore

Mitchell Allan Merrill

Daniel Robert Burnos

Andrew Ray Kneeland

Stephen Christopher Chieco

Raymond Henry Goetze

David Ray Hudnall

Eric Scicchitano

Kenneth David Black

Johnathan Ray Wallen

Katherine Courtlyn Macmanus

The present disclosure provides a turbine shroud with a cooling circuit and turbomachine with the subject turbine shroud. The turbine shroud includes a body with a structural member thereon. The body is coupled to a turbomachine casing or an intermediate component for coupling the body to the turbomachine casing. A cooling circuit within the body is in fluid communication with a cooling chamber adjacent the body. The cooling circuit includes an inlet passage extending through the structural member of the body, and an outlet passage fluidly coupled to the inlet passage and extending through an external surface of the body.

Turbine shroud and turbomachine with cooling circuit

A system includes an inducer assembly configured to receive a fluid flow from compressor fluid source and to turn the fluid flow in a substantially circumferential direction into the exit cavity. The inducer assembly includes multiple flow passages. Each flow passage includes an inlet configured to receive the fluid flow and an outlet configured to discharge the fluid flow into the exit cavity, and each flow passage is defined by a first wall portion and a second wall portion extending between the inlet and the outlet. The first wall portion includes a first surface adjacent the outlet that extends into the exit cavity.

Flow inducer for a gas turbine system

According to one embodiment, there is disclosed an inducer assembly for use with a gas turbine engine. The inducer assembly may include a cavity. The inducer assembly may also include an inducer in fluid communication with the cavity. Moreover, the inducer assembly may include at least one guide vane disposed within the cavity.

Inducer guide vanes

An inner shell for a rotating machine including at least one segment; and at least one complementary segment in operable communication with the at least one segment, the segments forming a support structure for a shroud ring; wherein the at least one segment and the at least one complementary segment are individually moved to change a set of dimensions defined by the at least one segment and the at least one complementary segment. A method for controlling a dimension of the shroud ring in a rotating machine is also disclosed.

Apparatus and method for clearance control of turbine blade tip

A method operates a gas turbine that includes a compressor section, a turbine section and an extraction cooling system. The method includes monitoring an operation of the gas turbine, directing a cooling air flow through the extraction cooling system from the compressor section to the turbine section in response to normal operation of the gas turbine, and directing a warming air flow through the extraction cooling system to the compressor section and the turbine section in response to shutdown of the gas turbine.

Systems and methods of reducing heat loss from a gas turbine during shutdown

An actuating device includes: at least one first elongated member having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); and at least one second elongated member having a second CTE different from the first CTE, the second elongated member being nested within the first elongated member, the device being configured to displace a portion of the device a selected distance along a major axis of the device based on a relationship between the first CTE and the second CTE in response to a change in temperature.

Device, system and method for thermally activated displacement

A method and apparatus of turning rotary components of a rotary machine having a brake disc includes providing a turning gear assembly. The turning gear assembly includes a gear plate, a pinion gear and a gear motor coupled to the pinion gear. The method also includes coupling the turning gear assembly within the rotary machine using the gear plate such that the pinion gear engages with the brake disc, detecting a motion of the rotary machine, and rotating the brake disc using the pinion gear based on the detected motion.

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