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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsBryan Robert Dery, Scott Matthew Bush, Donald Michael Corsmeier
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A system of integrating baffles for enhanced cooling of CMC liners is comprised of a combustor assembly having a dome mount assembly, outer liner and inner liner. Liners include those manufactured from and in a process for CMC (Ceramic Matrix Composite). One or more liner baffles such as outer baffle and inner baffle, are provided to reduce the pressure drop across the liner, allowing the addition of more cooling holes and thereby reducing the cooling hole spacing while not increasing the required amount of cooling air. CMC liners are incorporated, as desired, to take advantage of shapes and hole dispositions made possible by use of CMC over past designs.
A system of integrating baffles for enhanced cooling of CMC liners comprising CMC combustor liners with CMC liner flanges, coupled with one or more baffles each having a forward end and an aft end.
A system of integrating baffles for enhanced cooling of CMC liners comprising CMC combustor liners with CMC liner flanges, coupled with one or more baffles each having a forward end and an aft end, the baffle aft ends having piston ring housings and piston ring seals formed thereupon, a dome plate, liner retainers, and seals.
A system for enhanced cooling of CMC liners comprising CMC combustor liners with CMC liner flanges, coupled with a dome plate, liner retainers, and seals and no baffles.
A system for enhanced cooling of CMC liners comprising CMC combustor liners with CMC liner flanges, coupled with a dome plate, liner retainers, and seals and no baffles wherein the combustor liner provides a direct sealing interface with as turbine nozzle.
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