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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerard McQuiggan, Orlando, FL (US);
Raymond Scott Nordlund, Orlando, FL (US);
Leslie Roy Southall, Longwood, FL (US);
William Edward North, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Zachary Sinnott, Winter Park, FL (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
60 3975 ; 415114 ; 415115 ;
Abstract
A gas turbine that has turbine vanes that can be cooled with either steam or air includes a compressor that compresses air, a combustor enclosed within a shell and in flow communication with the compressor, a turbine in flow communication with the combustor and receiving hot gas from the combustor and turbine vanes. The turbine vanes having an airfoil, a shroud and a cooling circuit that cools the airfoil and the shrouds with either steam or air.