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US 8,296,945 B2Granted
Method for repairing a turbine nozzle segment
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMark Broomer, Victor Hugo Silva Correia
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Abstract
A method for repairing a turbine nozzle segment includes providing a turbine nozzle segment having an enclosure with an integral discourager, removing the enclosure and/or the discourager from the turbine nozzle segment and attaching a new enclosure ad/or discourager to the turbine nozzle segment.
Claims14
A method for repairing a turbine nozzle segment, the method comprising:
- providing a turbine nozzle segment comprising
- a band having a flowpath side and a non-flowpath side,
- an enclosure disposed on said non-flowpath side of said band, said enclosure including a plurality of cooling holes,
- a plenum defined between said band and said enclosure, said plurality of cooling holes in said enclosure having an inlet at said plenum and an outlet disposed so as to impinge on said non-flowpath side of said band, and
- an integral discourager extending from said enclosure;
- removing said discourager from said turbine nozzle segment;
- and
- attaching a new discourager to said turbine nozzle segment.
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