Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation

Maria E Stampahar

Gerald Joseph Bruck

Thomas E Lippert

Mary Anne Alvin

Bernd Prade

Wen-Ching Yang

Dennis M Bachovchin

Donald M Newburry

William E Kepes

Stefan Hoffmann

A detection system for identifying airfoils having a cooling systems with orifices that are plugged with contaminants or with showerheads having a portion burned off. The detection system measures pressures at different locations and calculates or measures a differential pressure. The differential pressure may be compared with a known benchmark value to determine whether the differential pressure has changed. Changes in the differential pressure may indicate that one or more of the orifices in a cooling system of an airfoil are plugged or that portions of, or all of, a showerhead has burned off.

Differential pressure sensing system for airfoils usable in turbine engines

A catalytic section of a combustor is formed from a spaced tandem array of corrugated panels. The exterior top and bottom surfaces of the panels are coated with a catalyst and the space between panels defines a passage for a fuel-rich/air mixture. The interior of the corrugated panels define cooling air passages for maintaining the catalyst and substrate on which it is formed, at acceptable temperatures.

Corrugated catalyst support structure for use within a catalytic reactor

A catalytic combustor includes a plurality of rectangular, tubular subassemblies having the catalyst coating on their outside surfaces. The subassemblies are held in spaced relationship within channels in support walls so that the catalyst coated surfaces of adjacent subassemblies define a catalyst-coated channel, and the interior of the tubular subassemblies defines uncoated channels. This structure permits precise location and support for the various subassemblies, provides wide flexibility in selecting the number and size of catalyst coated subassemblies, and provides for multiple possible flow paths for cooling air and fuel-air mixture through the catalytic combustor.

Catalyst support structure for use within catalytic combustors

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Maria E Stampahar