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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Brad Wilson VanTassel, Easley, SC (US);
Joseph Anthony Weber, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Bryan David Lewis, Greenville, SC (US);
Travis J Packer, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine that includes an inner shroud segment having a cooling configuration in which interior channels are configured to receive and direct a coolant. The cooling configuration may include a pair of counterflowing crossflow channels in which a first crossflow channel extends side-by-side with a neighboring second crossflow channel; and a feed and outlet channel configuration comprising neighboring feed and outlet channels. The feed channel may connect at a first connection to an upstream end of the first crossflow channel and the outlet channel may connect at a second connection to a downstream end of the second crossflow channel. The feed channel may extend in an inner radial direction from an inlet to the first connection. The outlet channel may extend in an outer radial direction from the second connection to an outlet. The feed channel may include a section that undercuts the outlet channel.