General Electric Company

Ge Vernova Technology Gmbh

Karol Filip Leszczynski

Gregory Allan Crum

Brad Wilson Vantassel

Ajay Gangadhar Patil

Przemyslaw Michal Jakubczak

Michael Todd Summers

Christopher Warren Childs

Tomasz Maranski

Damian Wolff

David Matthew Clarida

Mitchel Merck

Alexander Maxim Libers

Daniel Ozga

A flow mixing lobe for an exhaust diffuser includes a first flange member having a first leading end, a first trailing end, and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. A second flange member includes a second leading end, a second trailing end, and an intermediate section extending therebetween. A first leg portion includes a first end extending from the first flange member, and a second end. A second leg portion has a first end portion extending from the second flange member, and a second end portion. A wing member is arranged between the first and second leg portions at respective ones of the second end and second end portions. The wing member includes a flow conditioning surface having a non-linear profile extending between the second end and the second end portion.

Manufacture and installation of diffuser flow mixing lobes

This disclosure provides assemblies for providing a bumper between an exhaust frame and a bearing housing in a gas turbine. The bumper or bumpers have an attachment surface for attaching to the exhaust frame and a bearing contact surface that engages the bearing housing during a blade out event.

Bearing bumper for blade out events

A seal retaining assembly includes a first segment coupled to a first structure. Also included is a recess of the first segment, the recess defined by a first and second wall, the first wall defining a first wall aperture, the second wall defining a second wall aperture. Further included is a second segment having a tab disposed within the recess in fitted contact with the first and second wall to retain the second segment to the first segment in a radial direction, the tab defining a tab aperture, the first and second segment defining an axial gap therebetween, the first wall aperture, the second wall aperture and the tab aperture are aligned to form a passage. Yet further included is a flex seal within the axial gap. Also included is a pin in the passage to fix the second segment to the first segment in axial and circumferential directions.

Seal retaining assembly

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Warsaw, Poland

Karol Filip Leszczynski