General Electric Company

Ge Infrastructure Technology, LLC

Kyle Eric Benson

Patrick Benedict Melton

Lucas John Stoia

Richard Martin DiCintio

Kenneth Damon Black

Keith Cletus Belsom

Ronnie Ray Pentecost

Radu Ioan Danescu

Richard William Johnson

Brandon Taylor Overby

Xiaoqiang Zeng

Jonathan Kay Allen

Brian Patrick Hansen

Jeffery Craig Moree

Brian David Moran

Mithun Raj K K

Chandresh R Shah

Kyle Safford

Joseph M Harvey

Kyle Vanceton Mote

Zachary James Taylor

Maruthi Prasad Manchikanti

Richard Martin Dicintio

A system includes a casing alignment system configured to align an inner wall with an outer wall of a multi-wall casing of a turbomachine having a rotor. The casing alignment system includes a first alignment positioner configured to bias a first lip of the inner wall in a direction of rotation of the rotor disposed within the multi-wall casing. The alignment positioner may include a spring, a fluid-driven alignment positioner, an electric-driven alignment positioner, or a combination thereof. The alignment positioner may be configured to bias the first lip within a first recess adjacent a first flanged coupling between first and second wall sections of the outer wall.

System and method for aligning casing wall of turbomachine

This application provides a temperature gradient control system for a double wall casing of a compressor. The double wall casing may include an inner casing and an outer casing such that a flow of air is pulled through the double wall casing. The temperature gradient control system may include upper discharge piping with an upper modulation valve and a lower discharge piping with a lower modulation valve. The upper modulation valve and/or the lower modulation valve modulate the flow air pulled through the double wall casing to reduce a temperature gradient across the outer casing.

Temperature gradient control system for a compressor casing

A system includes a turbine casing assembly that includes an outer shell and an inner shell positioned substantially concentrically within the outer shell. The inner shell includes an inner surface facing away from the outer shell and an outer surface facing toward the outer shell, and the outer surface has one or more false flanges. At least one of the one or more false flanges includes a first surface protruding from the outer surface and facing the outer shell, and a flow diverting portion extending between the first surface and the outer surface of the inner shell. The flow diverting portion includes a first portion that diverges in a first circumferential direction between the first surface and the outer surface.

Turbine casing false flange flow diverter

A crossfire tube assembly between adjacent combustors includes a first sleeve adapted to provide fluid communication from a first combustor and a second sleeve adapted to connect to provide fluid communication from a second combustor. The second sleeve extends at least partially inside the first sleeve. A bias is between the first and second sleeves.

Crossfire tube assembly with tube bias between adjacent combustors

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