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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2020
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni, Schenectady, NY (US);
Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Schenectady, NY (US);
Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nicole Jessica Tibbetts, Delanson, NY (US);
Michael Edward Eriksen, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Stephen Wilton, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure include a meta-stable detergent based foam generating device of a turbine cleaning system includes a manifold configured to receive a liquid detergent and an expansion gas, a gas supply source configured to store the expansion gas, and one or more aerators fluidly coupled with, and between, the gas supply source and the manifold. Each aerator of the one or more aerators comprises an orifice through which the expansion gas enters the manifold, and wherein the orifice of each aerator is sized to enable generation of a meta-stable detergent based foam having bubbles with bubble diameters within a range of 10 microns (3.9×10inches inches) and 5 millimeters (0.2 inches), having a half-life within a range of 5 minutes and 180 minutes, or a combination thereof.