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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2003
Kattalaicheri Srinivasan Venkataramani, West Chester, OH (US);
Lawrence Butler, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ching-pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Kattalaicheri Srinivasan Venkataramani, West Chester, OH (US);
Lawrence Butler, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ching-Pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method facilitates assembling a turbine engine to facilitate preventing ice accumulation on the turbine engine during engine operation. The method comprises coupling at least one heat pipe to the engine such that a first end of the at least one heat pipe is coupled in thermal communication with a heat source, and coupling a second end of the at least one heat pipe in thermal communication with an outer surface of an engine component that is upstream from the heat source.