Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluid mixing apparatus using liquid fuel and high- and low-pressure fluid streams
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Application No.: US16731306Application Date: 2019-12-31
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Publication No.: US11248794B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Jonathan Dwight Berry
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: F23R3/28
- IPC: F23R3/28 ; F02C3/30 ; F02C7/22 ; F23R3/36 ; F23R3/50 ; F23R3/34

Abstract:
A fluid mixing apparatus includes mixing conduits that extend through a fluid plenum. The fluid plenum, which surrounds a first wall defining a main passage fluidly coupled to a low-pressure fluid source, is surrounded itself by a second wall defining a high-pressure plenum fluidly coupled to a high-pressure fluid source. An insulated tube disposed at the inlet of the first wall delivers a third fluid. The mixing conduits fluidly couple the high-pressure plenum to the main passage, where the high-pressure fluid is mixed with low-pressure fluid and the third fluid. Optionally, the fluid plenum may house a fourth fluid that is injected through injection holes in the mixing conduits. The fluid mixing apparatus may be used to mix one or more fuels with high- and low-pressure air in a gas turbine combustor. Alternately, the fluid mixing apparatus may mix a fluid with high- and low-pressure water streams.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210199300A1 FLUID MIXING APPARATUS USING LIQUID FUEL AND HIGH- AND LOW- PRESSURE FLUID STREAMS Public/Granted day:2021-07-01
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