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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2009
Steven William Tillery, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Steven William Tillery, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system to mitigate thermal lag of start-up operations of a gas turbine is provided and includes a housing which is disposed upstream from and which is fluidly coupled to a compressor of the gas turbine, a first system coupled to an aft portion of the compressor and to the housing which, when activated, receives a first air supply from the compressor and delivers the first air supply to the housing, and a second system, coupled to the first system, which removes a second air supply from an intermediate portion of the compressor and delivers the second air supply to the first system prior to the activation of the first system.