Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Daryl Rufus Collins

Eric Steven Buskirk

Benjamin Alber Mancuso

Peter John Eisenzopf

James Royce Howes

Chad Duncan Munkres

Jeffrey James Andritz

Eric Paul Knopf

Mateusz Wojciech Golebiowski

The disclosure provides an apparatus including a temperature sensor configured to monitor a temperature of a generator component of a power train assembly. The power train assembly includes a power train component in thermal communication with a cooling fluid and mounted on a same shaft as the generator component. A controller is coupled to the temperature sensor and a heat exchange circuit for adjusting a temperature of the cooling fluid. The controller calculates a target temperature for the generator component based on a target thrust bearing parameter or a target vibration parameter for the power train assembly and adjusts a delivery of the cooling fluid to the power train component based on a difference between the monitored temperature and the target temperature.

Active temperature control for generator in power train

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Simpsonville, SC, United States of America

Daryl Rufus Collins