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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2008
Iain Robertson Kellock, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Charles Alan Bulgrin, Avon, IN (US);
Tagir Robert Nigmatulin, Moscow, RU;
Ralph Chris Bruner, Taylors, SC (US);
Iain Robertson Kellock, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Charles Alan Bulgrin, Avon, IN (US);
Tagir Robert Nigmatulin, Moscow, RU;
Ralph Chris Bruner, Taylors, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a shroud for a turbomachine including at least one support structure and at least one inner shroud disposed at a gas path of a turbomachine. The at least one inner shroud and the at least one support structure have at least one gap therebetween. The at least one gap alternates between at least one restrictive gap and at least one unrestrictive gap and is capable of creating at least one pressure loss mechanism to reduce a hot gas flow in the at least one gap. Further disclosed is a turbomachine and a method for reducing ingestion of hot gas in a turbomachine.