Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mixer assembly 200 for a gas turbine engine 10.SOLUTION: The mixer assembly 200 includes a main mixer 220 and a pilot mixer 210 concentrically arranged with respect to the main mixer. The main mixer encloses at least part of the pilot mixer. The pilot mixer includes an annular housing 212 defining a cavity 208 to be partitioned from the main mixer. The housing has a front portion 202 and a rear portion 204, a diameter of the rear portion being larger than that of the front portion. The pilot mixer further includes a fuel nozzle 152 enclosed by the front portion of the housing and a partition 214 located downstream of the nozzle and connecting the front portion to the rear portion of the housing. The partition 214 is substantially perpendicular to the rear portion 204 of the housing and defines a corner 206 between the rear portion and the partition.
Abstract:
A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprises a combustion chamber having a pilot injector at one end and at least one main injector spaced radially from the pilot injector. The main injector includes a fluid flow path with a plug that restricts flow at least at an interior portion of the flow path. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A fuel nozzle for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes an outer air swirler along an axis, said outer air swirler defines an outer annular air passage between an outer wall and an inner wall, the outer wall defines a convergent-divergent nozzle. An inner air swirler along the axis to define an annular liquid passage therebetween, the annular liquid passage terminates upstream of the convergent-divergent nozzle and an annular fuel gas passage around the axis between the outer air swirler and the inner air swirler.
Abstract:
A fuel nozzle for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes an outer air swirler along an axis, the outer air swirler defines an outer annular air passage. An inner air swirler along the axis defines an annular fuel gas passage around the axis between the outer air swirler and the inner air swirler, the annular fuel gas passage terminates with a multiple of skewed slots.
Abstract:
A fuel-air premixer for a combustor of a turbine engine includes a central passage along an axis. The central passage is operable to communicate an unswirled airflow. An outer annular passage is located around the axis and includes a multiple of first swirl vanes that are operable to communicate a first swirled airflow in a first direction. An inner annular passage is located around the axis between the central passage and the outer annular passage. The inner annular passage includes a multiple of second swirl vanes that are operable to communicate a second swirled airflow in a second direction different than the first direction.
Abstract:
A fuel-air premixer for a combustor of a turbine engine includes a central passage along an axis. The central passage is operable to communicate an unswirled airflow. An outer annular passage is located around the axis and includes a multiple of first swirl vanes that are operable to communicate a first swirled airflow in a first direction. An inner annular passage is located around the axis between the central passage and the outer annular passage. The inner annular passage includes a multiple of second swirl vanes that are operable to communicate a second swirled airflow in a second direction different than the first direction.
Abstract:
In various embodiments, a dual fuel nozzle (200) for use in a gas 200 turbine engine is provided. The nozzle may be configured to supply and gas and a liquid. The dual fuel nozzle (200) may include an interior wall (217). The interior wall (217) may include a shoulder (219). The shoulder (219) may include one or more gas ports (216). Gas may be discharged through the gas ports (216) and penetrate a mixing zone.
Abstract:
A disclosed fuel injector provides mixing of fuel with airflow by surrounding a swirled fuel flow with first and second swirled airflows that ensures mixing prior to or upon entering the combustion chamber. Fuel tubes produce a central fuel flow along with a central airflow through a plurality of openings to generate the high velocity fuel/air mixture along the axis of the fuel injector in addition to the swirled fuel/air mixture.