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Maruthi Prasad Manchikanti

Donald Earl Floyd

Kenneth Damon Black

Gregory Allan Crum

Wojciech Grzeszczak

Asish Uppath Naraparambath Ramesh

A gas turbomachine includes a compressor portion, a turbine portion operatively connected to the compressor portion, and a combustor assembly fluidically connected to each of the compressor portion and the turbine portion. A turbine casing includes a body having an outer surface and an inner surface. A clearance control system includes a plurality of fluidically connected fluid channels extending through the turbine casing. The plurality of fluidically connected fluid channels includes a first fluid channel configured to direct a fluid flow in a first axial direction, a circumferential fluid channel configured to direct the fluid flow in a circumferential direction, and a second fluid channel configured to direct the fluid flow in a second axial direction substantially opposite the first axial direction. The first fluid channel includes a first outlet passing through the inner surface, and the second fluid channel including a second outlet passing through the inner surface.

Turbomachine including clearance control system

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a bearing housing of a turbine, wherein the bearing housing is configured to support a shaft of the turbine, and the bearing housing comprises at least one bearing housing ear configured to transfer a load of the bearing housing to an inlet housing of the turbine through a horizontal center line of the bearing housing.

Bearing housing

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