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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Nicholas Philip Poccia, Gansevoort, NY (US);
Laurence Ambrose Kenny, III, Rindge, NH (US);
Karl Kurt Rocco Westphal, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Diwakar Balasubramanyam, Niskayuna, NY (US);
William George Carberg, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An inlet bleed heater for flowing heated air to the inlet of a compressor is fabricated wholly at a factory site. The heater interconnects a manifold which receives extraction air from the compressor to down tubes in the inlet air duct to supply heated extraction air to the ambient inlet air via piping with bellows. The bellows accommodate thermal expansion and contraction of the manifold and the down tubes. The pipe and bellows lie within the height envelope of the bleed heater, facilitating transportation of the heater on its side within overall height and width limitations permitted for road travel.