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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Omprakash Samudrala, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Edip Sevincer, Watervliet, NY (US);
Jonathan Michael Webster, Travelers Rest, SC (US);
Fernando Jorge Casanova, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A sealing system for a multi-stage turbine includes multiple first interstage seal subsystems disposed circumferentially about a rotor wheel shaft of the multi-stage turbine and extending axially between a first turbine stage and a second turbine stage of the multi-stage turbine. Each of the first interstage seal subsystems includes multiple near flow path seal segments. The first interstage seal subsystem also includes a forward coverplate disposed axially between a first turbine wheel of the first turbine stage and the near flow path seal segment and an aft coverplate disposed axially between the near flow path seal segment and a second turbine wheel of the second turbine stag. Further, each of the forward coverplate and the aft coverplate extends radially to a first stage bucket and a second stage bucket respectively.