General Electric Company

John Robert Sech

Gary Charles Liotta

John Herbert Dimmick

Eric Richard Bonini

Michael Thomas Hudson

Patrick Shawn Reilly

Kiran Sreeram

John Herbert Iii Dimmick

A rotor wheel for an engine includes a plurality of impeller vanes and a plurality of fluid passages defined by adjacent impeller vanes. The fluid passages are radially disposed across at least a portion of the rotor wheel. One or more impeller inserts may be disposed within one or more of the plurality of fluid passages, respectively. The impeller inserts define an impeller passage with a passage shape that controls a flow of fluid through the one or more of the plurality of fluid passages.

Rotor wheel and impeller inserts

A load pin has an end portion, and a vane has a base with a cutout in the base, wherein the end portion of the load pin engages a wall portion of the cutout in the base of the vane, thereby inhibiting any movement of the vane in a particular direction.

Load pin for compressor square base stator and method of use

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Greenville, SC, United States of America

John Robert Sech