General Electric Company

Xiaoyue Liu

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Stefan Herr

Aspi Rustom Wadia

Guanghua Wang

Biao Fang

Kevin Richard Kirtley

Syed Arif Khalid

Peter Nicholas Szucs

Peter John Wood

Jason Paul Mortzheim

Roointon Erach Pavri

Herman Weigman

Shixiao Wang

A gas turbine engine includes a core engine having a casing, a cowl disposed annularly around the casing such that a gap is formed between the casing and the cowl, and a thermal monitoring system having at least one camera positioned within the gap, wherein the at least one camera is configured to detect thermal radiation from at least one turbine component within the gap.

Turbine thermal monitoring systems and methods

A wind turbine blade had a suction side surface and a pressure side surface. A plurality of vortex elements are formed on at least one of the suction side or the pressure side surfaces. The vortex elements have an upwardly inclined wind face and a downwardly inclined slip face, with the wind face and slip face meeting at a generally open-ended U-shaped ridge that defines side horns. The side horns decrease in height from a forward most portion of the ridge to the suction side surface or pressure side surface.

Wind turbine blades with aerodynamic vortex elements

An airfoil having a root, a tip, and an outer surface for pressuring air flowable thereover. The outer surface includes one or more slots elongate in a direction selected to preclude or reduce circulation within the slots, and the one or more slots are configured to bleed a boundary layer from the outer surface to the tip utilizing one or more passageways within the airfoil.

Methods and apparatus for aerodynamically self-enhancing rotor blades

An integrated centrifugal blower wheel for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) blower unit includes a first blade support, a second blade support, and a plurality of S-shaped blades disposed between the first and second blade supports, wherein each of the S-shaped blades has a trailing edge bent in a forward direction with respect to a defined direction of rotation of the wheel.

Integrated high efficiency blower apparatus for HVAC systems

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

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