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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Sendilkumaran Soundiramourty, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivas Pakkala, Chintalapudi, IN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 9/065 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inner casing assembly for a turbine including: an annular inner casing including cooling passages, wherein each passage extends through a wall of the inner casing from a source of cooling fluid to an outer surface of the wall of the inner casing, and struts extending outward from the outer surface of the inner casing wherein the cooling passages are arranged on the inner casing such that a pair of the cooling passages is on opposite sides of each of the struts, and the cooling passages in each pair are equidistant to the corresponding strut.