Patents by Inventor Andre Theuer
Andre Theuer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20190011132Abstract: A burner for a combustor of a turbomachine includes a pilot nozzle with inline premixing. The pilot nozzle is formed in an aft end of the burner. An air inlet is formed in a forward end of the burner in fluid communication with the pilot nozzle. A mixing channel extends along the axial direction between the air inlet and the pilot nozzle such that the air inlet is in fluid communication with the pilot nozzle via the mixing channel. An annular fuel plenum extends along the circumferential direction. A fuel port is in fluid communication with the annular fuel plenum and the mixing channel, the fuel port includes an outlet configured to inject fuel into the mixing channel such that a shear flow is induced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Simone Roberto Walter CAMPONOVO, Fulvio MAGNI, Ewald FREITAG, John Philip WOOD, Andre THEUER, Rohit KULKARNI
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Publication number: 20180156460Abstract: A method of making a combustor first inner cap device, and the device itself, is disclosed using the additive manufacturing process of consecutively adding material to a combustor first inner cap along an upstream axial build direction starting from a base side positioned transverse to the upstream axial build direction. Then adding material in consecutive steps to manufacture the first inner cap having at least one combustor that houses the first inner cap. The base side has at least one acoustic port. A bump side extends from the base side into the upstream axial build direction and has at least one damper positioned it. The damper has at least one overhang ledge forming an angle ? with the upstream axial build direction less than or equal to 45 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Andre Theuer, Dariusz Oliwiusz Palys, Jost Imfeld
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Publication number: 20180156461Abstract: A damping system and apparatus are disclosed for dampening acoustic pressure oscillations of a gas flow in a combustor of a gas turbine engine having at least one combustor with a combustor liner. A second inner cap portion is disposed on the at least one combustor inner liner. The second inner cap portion can have a hot surface, a cold surface, at least one burner opening protruding from the cold surface, and at least one neck ring having an internal opening and protruding from the cold surface. At least one resonating tube having a resonating tube neck is integrated with and protruding from the at least one neck ring. The at least one resonating tube is disposed between adjacent burner openings, and is configured such that the radial dimension is greater than or equal to the axial dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Andre Theuer, Dariusz Oliwiusz Palys, Jost Imfeld, Bruno Schuermans
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Publication number: 20180156128Abstract: A damping system and apparatus are disclosed for dampening acoustic pressure oscillations of a gas flow in a combustor of a gas turbine engine having at least one combustor with a combustor liner. A second inner cap portion is disposed on the at least one combustor. The second inner cap portion can have a hot surface, a cold surface, at least one burner opening protruding from the cold surface, and at least one neck ring having an internal opening and protruding from the cold surface. At least one extended resonating tube having a resonating tube neck is integrated with and protruding from the at least one neck ring. The at least one extended resonating tube is disposed between adjacent burner openings, and is configured such that the radial dimension is less than the axial dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Jost Imfeld, Andre Theuer, Bruno Schuermans, Naresh Kumar Aluri
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Publication number: 20180149027Abstract: Disclosed is a vortex generating device having a body, extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The body, in profile cross sections taken across the spanwise direction, exhibits an airfoil-shaped geometry. Each airfoil-shaped profile cross section has a camber line extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, at least two of the camber lines exhibiting different camber angles, such that the body exhibits at least two different flow deflection angles along the spanwise extent. An imaginary trailing edge diagonal extends straight from a first spanwise end of the trailing edge to a second spanwise end of the trailing edge. When seen from the downstream viewpoint, the trailing edge crosses the imaginary trailing edge diagonal exactly once at one diagonal crossing point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Yang YANG, Andre THEUER
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Publication number: 20180149360Abstract: A vortex generating device is provided as a generally airfoil-shaped lobed body. The flow deflection varies along a spanwise extent, such that the body exhibits a corrugated geometry in a trailing edge region, and the trailing edge exhibits an undulating shape. The undulating shape includes at least one corner. The trailing edge may include or may consist of straight trailing edge sections. The trailing edge may exhibit a polygonial waveform shape, in particular a trapezoidal or rectangular waveform shape. The vortex generating device may be provided as a fuel discharge device which is suited to discharge a fuel into a vortex flow generated by the vortex generating device. To this extent, a fuel supply plenum may be provided inside the body and at least one fuel discharge opening which is in fluid communication with the fuel supply plenum may be provided on the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Andre THEUER, Urs BENZ, Yang YANG, Michael DÜSING
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Patent number: 9976744Abstract: A reheat burner arrangement including a center body, an annular duct with a cross-section area, an intermediate fuel injection plane located along the center body and being actively connected to the cross section area of the annular duct, wherein the center body is located upstream of a combustion chamber, wherein the structure of the reheat burner arrangement is defined by various parameters and the structure of the reheat burner arrangement is defined by various dependencies.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: John Philip Wood, Andrea Ciani, Andre Theuer, Douglas Anthony Pennell, Ewald Freitag
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Patent number: 9829200Abstract: The invention relates to a burner arrangement for using in a single combustion chamber or in a can-combustor comprising a center body burner located upstream of a combustion zone, an annular duct with a cross section area, intermediate lobes which are arranged in circumferential direction and in longitudinal direction of the center body. The lobes being actively connected to the cross section area of the annular duct, wherein a cooling air is guided through a number of pipes within the lobes to the center body and cools beforehand at least the front section of the center body based on impingement cooling. Subsequently, the impingement cooling air cools the middle and back face of the center body based on convective and/or effusion cooling. At least the back face of the center body includes on the inside at least one damper.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Xianfeng Gao, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer, Rohit Kulkarni
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Publication number: 20170234541Abstract: A burner for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine with a mixing and injection device, which includes a limiting wall that defines a gas-flow channel and at least two streamlined bodies. Each streamlined body extends in a first transverse direction into the gas-flow channel, and has two lateral surfaces that are arranged essentially parallel to the main-flow direction. The lateral surfaces are joined to one another at their upstream and downstream sides to form leading and trailing edges of the body, respectively. At least one of the streamlined bodies includes a mixing structure and at least one fuel nozzle at its trailing edge for introducing at least one fuel essentially parallel to the main-flow direction into the flow channel. At least two of the streamlined bodies have different lengths along the first transverse direction such that they may be used for a can combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Andrea CIANI, John Philip WOOD, Douglas Anthony PENNELL, Ewald FREITAG, Urs BENZ, Andre THEUER
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Publication number: 20170191665Abstract: A burner for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine with a mixing and injection device, which includes a limiting wall that defines a gas-flow channel and at least two streamlined bodies. Each streamlined body extends in a first transverse direction into the gas-flow channel, and has two lateral surfaces that are arranged essentially parallel to the main-flow direction. The lateral surfaces are joined to one another at their upstream and downstream sides to form leading and trailing edges of the body, respectively. At least one of the streamlined bodies includes a mixing structure and at least one fuel nozzle at its trailing edge for introducing at least one fuel essentially parallel to the main-flow direction into the flow channel. At least two of the streamlined bodies have different lengths along the first transverse direction such that they may be used for a can combustor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Andrea CIANI, John Philip WOOD, Douglas Anthony PENNELL, Ewald FREITAG, Urs BENZ, Andre THEUER
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Publication number: 20160290238Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injector device having a body with a leading edge and a trailing edge and defining a streamwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge, the fuel injector device body having a first wall and a second wall opposite the first wall, each wall extending between and including the leading edge and the trailing edge and the walls conjoining each other at the leading edge and the trailing edge, each wall having a streamwise extent and a crosswise extent, the walls further enclosing an internal space, at least one fluid plenum being provided within the internal space, the fluid plenum at least at one of an upstream end and/or a downstream end being delimited by an internal wall structure, wherein at least one surface of the wall structure is an inclined surface which forms an angle with the streamwise direction which is smaller than or equal to a maximum angle, wherein the maximum angle is 60°.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Kaspar LOEFFEL, Andre THEUER, Nico BIAGIOLI, Alexey STYTSENKO, Sergey MYLNIKOV, Igor BAIBUZENKO
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Publication number: 20160153661Abstract: A Helmholtz damper, especially for damping pulsations in a combustor of a gas turbine, including a damper volume, which can be connected to a damped space by means of a neck tube. The Helmholtz damper further includes a piston, which is moveable within the damper volume and divides the damper volume into a variable first part (V1) on one side of said piston. The variable first part (V1) is connected to the neck tube, and a correspondingly variable second part (V2) on the other side of said piston. The control mechanism is substantially simplified in a more compact design by the piston being driven by a pressure drop (?p) between the first and second part (V1, V2) of the damper volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Mirko Ruben BOTHIEN, Andre THEUER, Jost IMFELD
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Publication number: 20160146468Abstract: A fuel lance is disclosed for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air into an axial hot gas flow flowing through a sequential combustor of a gas turbine, the fuel lance having at least one finger extending in a longitudinal direction into the axial hot gas flow of the gas turbine essentially perpendicular to the hot gas flow. The finger is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile. The body has two lateral surfaces essentially parallel to the axial hot gas flow. The body includes an enclosing outer wall having a longitudinally extending air plenum for the distributed introduction of air into the at least one finger. The air plenum is provided with a plurality of distributed impingement cooling holes, such that air exiting through the impingement cooling holes impinges on the inner side of the leading edge region of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbHInventors: Xianfeng GAO, Urs BENZ, Andre THEUER, Michael DÜSING
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Publication number: 20150047364Abstract: The invention relates to a burner arrangement for using in a single combustion chamber or in a can-combustor comprising a center body burner located upstream of a combustion zone, an annular duct with a cross section area, intermediate lobes which are arranged in circumferential direction and in longitudinal direction of the center body. The lobes being actively connected to the cross section area of the annular duct, wherein a cooling air is guided through a number of pipes within the lobes to the center body and cools beforehand at least the front section of the center body based on impingement cooling. Subsequently, the impingement cooling air cools the middle and back face of the center body based on convective and/or effusion cooling. At least the back face of the center body includes on the inside at least one damper.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Xianfeng Gao, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer, Rohit Kulkarni
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Publication number: 20140123665Abstract: A reheat burner arrangement including a center body, an annular duct with a cross-section area, an intermediate fuel injection plane located along the center body and being actively connected to the cross section area of the annular duct, wherein the center body is located upstream of a combustion chamber, wherein the structure of the reheat burner arrangement is defined by various parameters and the structure of the reheat burner arrangement is defined by various dependencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: John Philip WOOD, Andrea CIANI, Andre THEUER, Douglas Anthony PENNELL, Ewald FREITAG
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Patent number: 8713943Abstract: The disclosure relates to a burner such as for a secondary combustion chamber of a gas turbine with sequential combustion having a first and a second combustion chamber, with an injection device for introduction of at least one gaseous and/or liquid fuel into the burner. The injection device has at least one body which is arranged in the burner with at least one nozzle for introducing the at least one gaseous fuel into the burner, the at least one body being configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile and which extends with a longitudinal direction perpendicularly or at an inclination to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. At least one nozzle has its outlet orifice downstream of a trailing edge of the streamlined body.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Alstom Technology LtdInventors: Madhavan Poyyapakkam, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer, Anton Winkler, Andrea Ciani
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Publication number: 20140109588Abstract: The present invention relation to a burner for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine with a mixing and injection device. The mixing and injection device includes a limiting wall that defines a gas-flow channel and at least two streamlined bodies, each extending in a first transverse direction into the gas-flow channel. Each streamlined body has two lateral surfaces that are arranged essentially parallel to the main-flow direction, the lateral surfaces being joined to one another at their upstream side to form a leading edge of the body and joined at their downstream side to form a trailing edge of the body. Each streamlined body has a cross-section perpendicular to the first transverse direction that is shaped as a streamlined profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Andrea Ciani, John Philip Wood, Douglas Anthony Pennell, Ewald Freitag, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer
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Patent number: 8572980Abstract: A burner for a combustion chamber of a turbine, with an injection device for the introduction of at least one gaseous and/or liquid fuel into the burner is proposed. The injection device has at least one body arranged in the burner with at least two nozzles for introducing the at least one fuel into the burner, the body being configured with a streamlined cross-sectional profile which extends with a longitudinal direction perpendicularly or at an inclination to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. The carrier air plenum is provided with holes such that carrier air exiting through the holes impinges an inner side of a leading edge portion of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Alstom Technology LtdInventors: Anton Winkler, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer, Diane Lauffer, Madhavan Poyyapakkam
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Patent number: 8402768Abstract: The disclosure relates to a burner for a combustion chamber of a gas turbine, with an injection device for the introduction of at least one gaseous and/or liquid fuel into the burner, wherein the injection device has at least one body which is arranged in the burner with at least one nozzle for introducing the at least one fuel into the burner, the at least one body being configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile and which extends with a longitudinal direction perpendicularly or at an inclination to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. The at least one nozzle has its outlet orifice at or in a trailing edge of the streamlined body, and with reference to a central plane of the streamlined body, the trailing edge is provided with at least two lobes extending in opposite transverse directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventors: Khawar Syed, Madhavan Poyyapakkam, Anton Winkler, Andre Theuer
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Publication number: 20120324863Abstract: A burner for a combustion chamber of a turbine, with an injection device for the introduction of at least one gaseous and/or liquid fuel into the burner is proposed. The injection device has at least one body arranged in the burner with at least two nozzles for introducing the at least one fuel into the burner, the body being configured with a streamlined cross-sectional profile which extends with a longitudinal direction perpendicularly or at an inclination to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. The carrier air plenum is provided with holes such that carrier air exiting through the holes impinges an inner side of a leading edge portion of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Anton WINKLER, Urs BENZ, Andre THEUER, Diane LAUFFER, Madhavan POYYAPAKKAM