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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2012
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Doyle Vandale, Greenville, SC (US);
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/48 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cross-fire tube purging arrangement includes a cross-fire tube extending from proximate a combustor chamber to proximate an adjacent combustor chamber for fluidly coupling the combustor chamber and the adjacent combustor chamber. Also included is a compressed air supply arrangement for selectively delivering a compressed air to the cross-fire tube, the compressed air supply arrangement comprising a regulating component for controlling delivery of the compressed air to the cross-fire tube.