General Electric Company

Roointon Erach Pavri

Kevin Michael Elward

Bruce Gordon Norman

Jason Paul Mortzheim

Richard Lee Nichols

Alan S Feitelberg

Xiaoyue Liu

Milton Bradford Hilt

John P VanDevelde

Benjamin Rush

Robert Lee Hillis

John Francis Love

Robert Edward Boettner

Richard Benjamin Schiefer

Richard Arthur Symonds

John P Vandevelde

An apparatus for distributing a fluid in a gas flow path inside a turbomachine, comprising: a device for introducing the fluid into the gas flow path; and wherein the device is positioned within the gas flow path. A method for installing an apparatus that will distribute a fluid in a gas flow path inside a turbomachine, the method comprising: machining a casing groove along an inner surface of a casing; machining at least one port into the casing that is in fluid communication with the casing groove; machining an internal cavity in at least one stator blade that is in fluid communication with the casing groove; machining at least one orifice, that is in fluid communication with the internal cavity, on an orifice surface of the stator blade; and coupling a fluid supply to the at least one port.

Method and apparatus for distributing fluid into a turbomachine

A method of operating a combustor in a gas turbine that receives combustion air from a compressor includes a) controlling combustion temperature as a function of compressor discharge air bled from the compressor by determining a minimum amount of compressor discharge air required for maintaining a predetermined minimum combustion temperature; and b) bleeding compressor discharge air in excess of the minimum amount from the compressor via a control valve.

Control of gas turbine combustion temperature by compressor bleed air

An optimized combustor cooperating with a compressor in driving a gas turbine comprises a cylindrical outer combustor wall having an upstream fuel entry region and a downstream turbine entry region. An array of mixing holes are disposed about the periphery of the outer combustor wall adjacent to the fuel entry region so as to lower No,production therein. An array of dilution holes are medially disposed within the outer combustor wall to provide an entry for dilution air to the combustor.

Reduced emissions gas turbine combustor

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