Tangential flow baffle
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMark Eugene Noe, Toby George Darkins, Jr., Roger Lee Doughty
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Abstract
A turbine nozzle baffle includes a plurality of apertures inclined through a shell for discharging a coolant tangentially therefrom. The baffle is disposed inside a nozzle vane and the tangentially discharged coolant flows generally parallel along the inner surface of the vane for convection cooling thereof.
Claims26
A turbine nozzle baffle for cooling an inner surface of a hollow nozzle vane, said baffle comprising a shell including a plurality of apertures inclined through said shell for discharging a coolant tangentially from said shell for flow generally parallel along said vane inner surface.
A turbine nozzle comprising a hollow vane including a baffle disposed therein, and said baffle comprises a shell including a plurality of apertures inclined through said shell for discharging a coolant tangentially from said shell for flow generally parallel along an inner surface of said vane for cooling thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.