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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
John Wesley Harris, Jr., Taylors, SC (US);
Scott Edmond Ellis, Easley, SC (US);
Xiaoyong Fu, Greer, SC (US);
Adrian Lional Scott, Greer, SC (US);
John Wesley Harris, Jr., Taylors, SC (US);
Scott Edmond Ellis, Easley, SC (US);
Xiaoyong Fu, Greer, SC (US);
Adrian Lional Scott, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A platform cooling configuration in a turbine rotor blade that includes platform slot formed through at least one of the pressure side slashface and the suction side slashface; a removably-engaged impingement insert that separates the platform into two radially stacked plenums, a first plenum that resides inboard of a second plenum; a high-pressure connector that connects the first plenum to the high-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage; a low-pressure connector that connects the second plenum to the low-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage.