US 11,988,142 B2
Inlet filter housing having components including portions of filter system that collectively form housing
Laxmikant Merchant, Bengaluru (IN); Dinesh Venugopal Setty, Bangalore (IN); Mukesh Niddodi Kamath, Bangalore (IN); and Prithviraj Pandian, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/112,296.
Application 18/112,296 is a continuation of application No. 17/019,415, filed on Sep. 14, 2020, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2023/0193825 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. F02C 7/05 (2006.01)
CPC F02C 7/05 (2013.01) [F05D 2240/35 (2013.01); F05D 2250/221 (2013.01); F05D 2260/607 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inlet filter housing, comprising:
a plurality of components that are each disposed within a respective external structure of a respective International Organization of Standards (ISO) shipping container and that collectively form, in an assembled position, a single filtering and conditioning system for filtering and conditioning a fluid along a housing flow path defined by an outer enclosure of the inlet filter housing, the housing flow path extending from an upstream end of the inlet filter housing that is in fluid communication with ambient atmosphere, to a downstream end of the inlet filter housing configured, in the assembled position, for connection to an inlet of a gas turbine engine;
wherein each component of the plurality of components includes at least one permanent outer wall that forms a portion of the outer enclosure in the assembled position, the outer enclosure thereby including a contiguous wall formed by the at least one permanent outer walls of the plurality of components, each component of the plurality of components further including at least two removable walls that are removed in the assembled position to eliminate internal walls from the housing flow path, and wherein a downstream end of one component of the plurality of components is connected to a respective upstream end of another component of the plurality of components that is directly downstream of the one component of the plurality of components.