General Electric Company

Charles Alexander Smith

Tushar Sharadchandra Desai

John Herbert Dimmick

Eric David Roush

Andrew Clifford Hart

Matthew Paul Forcier

Chunlian Han

A compressor having a purge circuit. In one embodiment, the compressor includes: a rotor having a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a set of radially extending rotor wheels; a working fluid supply path for providing working fluid to each of the plurality of stages for compression by each set of radially extending rotor wheels; a purge circuit for diverting a first portion of the working fluid from an upstream portion of the working fluid supply path to at least one downstream stage of the plurality of stages; and a substantially axial bypass path bypassing the at least one downstream stage, the substantially axial bypass path for diverting a second portion of the working fluid around the at least one downstream stage.

Compressor having purge circuit and method of purging

An attenuation bracket is provided and includes an annular body having an annular attenuation arm defining first through-holes and an annular base defining second through-holes. A cross-section of the attenuation arm includes a flange, a connector opposite the flange and a curvilinear section extending between the flange and the connector. A cross-section of the base includes a first side corresponding with the flange and a second side opposite the first side and corresponding with the connector. The second side is connectable with the connector such that each of the first through-holes is defined in positional alignment with a corresponding one of the second through-holes.

Impeller tube assembly

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Greenville, SC, United States of America

Charles Alexander Smith