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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Scott Edmond Ellis, Easley, SC (US);
John Wesley Harris, Jr., Taylors, SC (US);
Adrian Lional Scott, Greer, SC (US);
Scott Edmond Ellis, Easley, SC (US);
John Wesley Harris, Jr., Taylors, SC (US);
Adrian Lional Scott, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A platform cooling arrangement in a turbine rotor blade having a platform, wherein the rotor blade includes an interior cooling passage, and wherein, in operation, the interior cooling passage comprises a high-pressure coolant region and a low-pressure coolant region, and wherein the platform includes a platform underside. The platform cooling arrangement may include: a first plate that resides inboard and in spaced relation to the platform underside and forming a first plenum; a second plate that resides inboard and in spaced relation to the first plate, the second plate forming a second plenum. The second plenum includes an inlet channel that connects to the high-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage, and the first plenum includes an outlet channel that connects to the low-pressure coolant region of the interior cooling passage.