Siemens Energy, Inc.

Siemens Power Generation, Inc.

William Gene Morgan

George F Dailey

Randy Edward Whitener

Benjamin Todd Humphries

Terrell H Yon, Iii

A method of determining an alignment of a floating seal for a turbo machine, including establishing a reference surface on a rotor of the turbomachine that is essentially perpendicular to an instantaneous centerline of the rotor, establishing a control surface that radially aligns a floating seal member that surrounds the rotor, providing an inflatable member arranged between a stationary portion of the turbomachine and a surface of the floating seal, inflating the inflatable member such that the inflatable member urges the floating seal firmly against the control surface, measuring an axial distance between the floating seal and the reference surface at a plurality of locations, determining a parallelism between the facing surfaces of the floating seal and the rotor based upon the plurality of measured axial distances, comparing the determined parallelism with a predetermined threshold, and adjusting an orientation of the control surface based upon the comparison.

Method and system for adjusting a turbomachine gland seal

A flux probe () for measuring the rotor flux of an electric generator (). The probe () is affixed to a probe carrier () and held within a stator coil slot () by affixing the carrier () to two opposing grooves () formed in sidewalls () of the slot (). One or more stator coils () are also disposed in the slot () and retained therein by a wedge () and corresponding spring () that applies an radially outwardly directed force to the coils (). In one embodiment the probe carrier () is affixed to a radially inwardly directed face () of the wedge ().

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Sanford, FL, United States of America

William Gene Morgan