Abstract:
A combustor section for a gas turbine engine includes an outer wall assembly and an inner wall assembly inboard of the outer wall assembly to define an annular combustion chamber therebetween. A forward fuel injection system is in communication with the combustion chamber. A downstream fuel injection system is in communication with the combustion chamber through the outer wall assembly and a swirl mixer system in communication with the combustion chamber through the inner wall assembly.
Abstract:
A combustor liner which reduces cooling flow to a combustion chamber and augments pressure drop split between impingement holes and effusion holes is disclosed. The combustor liner may further include accelerating channels, trip strips, pedestals, and cone-shaped effusion holes to provide further cooling of the liner. The combustor liner may reduce NOx production and the temperature of the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine or the like.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine augmentor (72) nozzle has an inlet (104) for connection to an augmentor fuel conduit and an outlet (106) for expelling a spray of fuel. A passageway (110) between the inlet (104) and outlet (106) is at least partially bounded by outlet end surface portions (126,128) diverging from each other. The nozzle (70) may be used as a replacement for a non-divergent nozzle and may reorient a fuel jet centerline (150) toward radial.
Abstract:
A gas turbine engine augmentor (72) nozzle has an inlet (104) for connection to an augmentor fuel conduit and an outlet (106) for expelling a spray of fuel. A passageway (110) between the inlet (104) and outlet (106) is at least partially bounded by outlet end surface portions (126,128) diverging from each other. The nozzle (70) may be used as a replacement for a non-divergent nozzle and may reorient a fuel jet centerline (150) toward radial.
Abstract:
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes inner and outer liners 32,34 with a row 112, 114 of dilution air holes penetrating through each liner. The row 114 of holes in the outer liner 34 comprise at least a set of large size, major outer holes 116 and may also include a set of smaller size minor outer holes 118 circumferentially intermediate neighboring pairs of the major outer holes 116. The row 112 of holes in the inner liner include dilution air holes circumferentially offset from the major outer holes 116 and may also include a set of minor holes 122 circumferentially intermediate major inner holes 120. The major and minor holes admit respective major and minor jets of dilution air into the combustor. The distribution of major and minor holes and the corresponding major and minor dilution air jets helps to minimize NOx emissions and regulates the spatial temperature profile of the exhaust gases discharged from the combustor.
Abstract:
FIELD: power engineering. SUBSTANCE: proposed injector has longitudinal axis and two spiral elements with cylindrical dome, axial lines of elements being displaced relative to each other. Overlapping ends of elements form inlet slot to feed fuel-air mixture into injector. End face plate of combustion chamber is provided with central hole to feed fuel and air into combustion chamber while other opposite end face plate blocks area of injector flow. Spiral elements are secured between said end face plates. Central part is located between said elements coaxially relative to longitudinal axis and it has base with at least one hole to deliver air passing through hole and inner channel, and also truncated figure section and aerodynamically shaped inclined sections preventing formation of reverse flow and providing stabilization of flame between said end face plates. EFFECT: increased service life. 6 cl, 3 dwg
Abstract:
A tangential entry premixing fuel injector (10) for a gas turbine engine combust or includes a pair of offset scrolls (18) whose ends define a pair of entry slots ( 36) for admitting primary combustion air tangentially into a mixing chamber (28) bounded by the scrolls (18) and by longitudinally spaced endplates (14, 16). An array of fuel injection passages (42) extends along the length of the slots. The passage array is config ured to inject a primary fuel nonuniformly along the length of the air entry slots and t o control the fuel penetration depth d in proportion to slot height H. The injector also inclu des a flame disgorging centerbody (48) having a bluff tip (54) longitudinally aligned with t he injector's discharge plane (22) and a secondary fuel conduit (80) extending through the cen terbody for discharging a secondary combustible fluid, preferably gaseous fuel, through a series of fuel discharge openings (84) in the tip (54). The flame disgorging centerbody i mproves fuel injector durability by resisting ingestion of combustion flame into the mix ing chamber (28) and reliably disgorging any flame that is ingested. The controlled fuel pe netration depth reinforces the flame disgorging capability of the centerbody by preventing fuel from penetrating into the slowly moving boundary layer attached to the centerbody (48 ). The bluff character of the centerbody, in combination with its longitudinal alignmen t with the fuel injector discharge plane, makes the centerbody capable of anchoring the fla me at the discharge plane so that combustion occurs aft of the discharge plane where the combustion flame is unlikely to damage the scrolls or centerbody. Introduction of fuel or fuel and air through the openings in the bluff tip encourage the flame to become anchored to the tip and therefore spatially stabilizes the flame, resulting in additional attenuation of acoustic oscillations and further improved combustor durability. The longitudin ally nonuniform injection of primary fuel compensates for any mixing nonuniformities attributable to the flame disgorging centerbody and therefore augments flame sta bility. The injector and an associated method of premixing fuel and air prior to combust ion suppress formation of nitrous oxides, and improve the durability of both the inj ector and the combustor.
Abstract:
A method of reducing the tendency of the combustion flame to stabilize within the mixing zone of a tangential entry nozzle is disclosed which comprises mixing fuel and air in a mixing zone within a fuel nozzle assembly, thereby producing a first fu el/air mixture which is isolated from the combustion products by maintaining sufficient ly high axial velocities throughout the mixing zone and using a combination of a second internal passageway within a centerbody (either fueled or unfueled) and the surfaces of t he combustor inlet port
Abstract:
A premix liquid fuel nozzle has longitudinal air entrance slots (24) into a cylindrical chamber (20). A centerbody (42) produces an axially increasing flow area toward the chamber outlet (32). Liquid fuel is atomized in a specified location (58) adjacent the co nical centerbody (42). This area has a high axial shear velocity producing thoroug h vaporization and uniform mixing before combustion.