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US 10,240,482 B2Granted
Vent system for load coupling guard
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsLaxmikant Merchant, Dinesh Venugopal Setty, Avishetti Srinivas, S. T. Deepak
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Abstract
A gas turbine system includes a load coupling connecting a gas turbine to a generator. A load coupling guard surrounds the load coupling to define an enclosed spaced around the load coupling. The load coupling guard includes a porous sleeve such that hydrogen coolant leaked into the load coupling guard from the generator is vented to ambient air.
Claims13
A gas turbine system, comprising:
- a load coupling connecting a gas turbine to a load;
- a load coupling guard at least partly surrounding the load coupling to define an enclosed spaced around the load coupling,
- wherein the load coupling guard includes a porous sleeve through which gas in the enclosed space is vented to ambient air, wherein the porous sleeve includes an inner perforated sheet, an outer perforated sheet, and a porous medium between the inner perforated sheet and the outer perforated sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.