Component for a turbine engine with a conduit
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsZachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Tingfan Pang, Steven Robert Brassfield
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for cooling a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface, a cooling cavity located within the body and fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow and a pin located within the cooling cavity and defining a cooling hole.
Claims20
An airfoil for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the airfoil comprising:
- a platform having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface;
- a cooling cavity located within the platform extending between a base wall and an outer wall to define a radial direction, the cooling cavity fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow;
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- a conduit defining an interior cooling passage extending into the cooling cavity between an inlet fluidly coupled to a clean portion of the cooling fluid flow proximate the base wall and an outlet fluidly coupled to the hot surface.
A component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising:
- a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface;
- a cooling cavity located within the body extending between a base wall and an outer wall to define a radial direction, the cooling cavity fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow;
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- a conduit extending into the cooling cavity between at least one inlet fluidly coupled to a clean portion of the cooling fluid flow proximate the base wall and at least one outlet fluidly coupled to the hot surface.
A method for cooling an engine component with a cooling cavity, the method comprising:
- flowing a cooling fluid flow through a conduit located within the cooling cavity, the conduit extending between an inlet and an outlet;
- ducting a clean portion of the cooling fluid flow proximate an interior surface of the cooling cavity through the inlet;
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- emitting the clean portion of the cooling fluid flow through the outlet onto a heated surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.