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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2023
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Stephen K. Kramer, Cromwell, CT (US);
Lance L Smith, West Hartford, CT (US);
Gregory Boardman, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US);
Zhongtao Dai, West Hartford, CT (US);
RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a turbine vane array and a cooling system. The turbine vane array includes an inner platform, an outer platform and a plurality of turbine vanes extending between and connected to the inner platform and the outer platform. The turbine vanes include a first turbine vane, and the first turbine vane includes a first passage and a second passage. The cooling system is configured to direct a first fluid into the first passage and a second fluid into the second passage. The first fluid includes air and steam during a first mode. The second fluid includes the air without the steam during the first mode.