Patent ID: 8047763

Claim:
A turbine casing with increased heat transfer at locations with increased mass, the casing comprising: an upper casing half with first and second upper flanges, a lower casing half with first and second lower flanges, the upper flanges being joined to corresponding lower flanges to thereby join the upper and lower casing halves to one another to form the casing, the joined flanges being positioned substantially at the horizontal symmetry plane of the casing, a plenum located within and extending circumferentially around the turbine casing within which a cooling fluid flows circumferentially around the turbine casing, and a plurality of bosses positioned around the circumference of the casing for introducing the cooling fluid into the plenum at a plurality of locations around the circumference of the casing so that the cooling fluid has first and second flow symmetry planes that do not correspond to the horizontal and vertical symmetry planes of the turbine casing and the heat transfer is increased at the joined upper and lower flanges located at the horizontal symmetry plane of the turbine casing.