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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Shashwat Swami Jaiswal, Karnataka, IN;
Rohit Chouhan, Karnataka, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine rotor blade that includes an airfoil defined between a concave pressure face and a laterally opposed convex suction face, and a cooling configuration that includes a cooling channel for receiving and directing a coolant through an interior of the rotor blade. The cooling channel may include fluidly connected segments, in which: a supply segment extends radially through the airfoil; an outlet segment discharges the coolant from the rotor blade at a shallow angle relative to a flow direction of a working fluid through the turbine; and an elbow segment connects the supply segment to the outlet segment and is positioned near the outboard tip of the airfoil. The elbow segment may be configured for accommodating a change of direction between the supply segment and the outlet segment.