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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Matthew Troy Hafner, Honea Path, SC (US);
Lyndsay Marie Kibler, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Brad Wilson VanTassel, Easley, SC (US);
Benjamin Paul Lacy, Greer, SC (US);
Zachary John Snider, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Christopher Donald Porter, Greenville, SC (US);
Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of an independent cooling circuit for selectively delivering cooling fluid to a component of a gas turbine system includes: at least one coolant feed channel fluidly coupled to a supply of cooling fluid; and an interconnected circuit of cooling channels, including: an interconnected circuit of cooling channels embedded within an exterior wall of the component; an impingement plate; and a plurality of feed tubes connecting the impingement plate to the exterior wall of the component and fluidly coupling a supply of cooling fluid to the interconnected circuit of cooling channels; wherein the cooling fluid flows through the plurality of feed tubes into the interconnected circuit of cooling channels only in response to a formation of a breach in the exterior wall of the component that exposes at least one of the cooling channels.