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US 8,875,384 B2Granted
System for installing a seal in a syngas cooler
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsJames Michael Storey, Lien-Yan Chen, Anna Ziombra, Karol Rzepniewski
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Abstract
A system, comprising a seal segment including a cable fastener. The system also includes a syngas cooler component that includes a cable guide, where the cable guide may route a cable coupled to the cable fastener to enable the cable to pull the seal segment into a mounting position.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a seal segment comprising:
- an inner support ring;
- a plurality of compressible outer seal elements coupled to the inner support ring,
- wherein each of the plurality of compressible outer seal elements comprises a spring element;
- an inner seal element coupled to the inner support ring and disposed between the inner support ring and the plurality of compressible outer seal elements;
- and
- a cable fastener;
- and
- a syngas cooler component comprising a cable guide, wherein the cable guide is configured to route a cable coupled to the cable fastener to enable the cable to pull the seal segment into a mounting position.
6 more elements
A system, comprising:
- a winch;
- a cable coupled to the winch;
- a seal segment comprising a cable fastener configured to couple the cable to the seal segment, wherein the seal segment comprises an inner support ring, a plurality of compressible outer seal elements coupled to the inner support ring, and an inner seal element coupled to the inner support ring and disposed between the inner support ring and the plurality of compressible outer seal elements, wherein each of the plurality of compressible outer seal elements comprises a spring element;
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- a cable guide configured to couple the cable to a syngas cooler component adjacent the seal segment, wherein the cable guide is configured to route the cable coupled to the cable fastener to enable the cable to pull the seal segment into a mounting position relative to the syngas cooler component.
2 more elements
A system, comprising:
- a seal segment comprising:
- an inner support ring;
- a plurality of compressible outer seal elements coupled to the inner support ring,
- wherein each of the plurality of compressible outer seal elements comprises a spring element;
- an inner seal element coupled to the inner support ring and disposed between the inner support ring and the plurality of compressible outer seal elements;
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- a cable fastener;
- a syngas cooler component comprising a cable guide;
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- a cable connected to the cable fastener and passing through the cable guide to allow for placement of the seal segment into a mounted position in the syngas cooler component.
7 more elements
The system of clam 12, comprising a plurality of seal segments about the circumference of the syngas cooler component, wherein each of the plurality of segments corresponds to an individual cable guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.