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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
James Michael Storey, Houston, TX (US);
Alex Clinton Solomon, Atlanta, GA (US);
Benjamin Campbell Steinhaus, Missouri City, TX (US);
Judeth Brannon Corry, Manvel, TX (US);
Steven Craig Russell, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Henri Gauthier, Houston, TX (US);
Yasir Hafeez Abbasi, Houston, TX (US);
Lien-Yan Chen, Spring, TX (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for preheating a pressure vessel includes a throat including an area of excess heat and a dome having an area of deficient heat. The throat includes a conduit extending from a pressure vessel opening to the pressure vessel interior. A plenum is defined between the throat and a seal within the dome. The throat extends from the dome toward a dome floor. The floor is substantially perpendicular to the throat. A conduit is coupled to the plenum and channels a flow of purge fluid into the plenum wherein heat from the throat is transferred to the flow of purge fluid and carried by the flow of purge fluid into the area of deficient heat via a gap defined between the seal and the floor such that the flow of purge fluid reduces temperature differential stresses within the pressure vessel and purges the area of deficient heat.