Abstract: A burner arrangement has a plurality of mixing channels which extend parallel to the main axis of the burner arrangement and are arranged in at least two concentric circles, in which mixing channels fuel and discharge air from the compressor are mixed during the operation of the burner arrangement. The mixing channels are grouped together into fuel stages so as to produce an irregular staging in the peripheral direction of the burner arrangement.

Abstract: A transition duct support apparatus and a method to support an exit frame in a transition duct in a gas turbine engine are provided. A stiffener (24) may be arranged to provide support to an outer edge (27) of an exit frame (12) in a transition duct (14). Stiffener (24) may be configured to circumferentially extend between mutually opposed corners (30) of the exit frame of the transition duct. A brace (26) may be connected to a centrally-disposed section (20) and may extend to support respective end portions (32) of the stiffener. The support apparatus is effective to provide a respective tuned level of stiffness support with respect to one or more axes of the exit frame in the transition duct. The apparatus and method may be effective for distributing mechanical stresses on the exit frame of the transition duct and/or neighboring regions in the transition duct.

Abstract: A burner arrangement has a plurality of mixing channels which extend parallel to the main axis of the burner arrangement and are arranged in at least two concentric circles, in which mixing channels fuel and discharge air from the compressor are mixed during the operation of the burner arrangement. The mixing channels are grouped together into fuel stages so as to produce an irregular staging in the peripheral direction of the burner arrangement.

Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.

Abstract: An acoustically dampened gas turbine engine (10) having a gas turbine engine combustor (12) with an acoustic damping resonator system (10) is disclosed. The acoustic damping resonator system (10) may be formed from one or more resonators (16) formed from a resonator housing (18) positioned within the gas turbine engine combustor (12) at an outer housing (20) forming a combustor basket (22) and extending circumferentially within the combustor (12). In at least one embodiment, the resonator housing (18) may include one or more resonator chambers (24) that provide enhanced cooling with reduced risk of cracking and other damage. The resonator housing (18) may include resonator exhaust orifices (26) that are positioned closer to an area of maximum temperature within the combustor (12), thereby enabling the resonator (16) to reduce the temperature gradient within the combustor (12).

Abstract: A gas turbine system (1) including a burner arrangement having a tubular combustion chamber (5), a turbine (6) and a transition duct (7) connecting the combustion chamber (5) and the turbine (6), wherein the transition duct (7) is provided with an axially extending cooling air channel (11). The transition duct (7) includes a plurality of axially extending cooling air channels, and wherein each cooling air channel (11) is provided with one single inlet (12) opened to the outside of the transition duct (7) and with one single outlet (12) opened to the inside of the transition duct (7).

Abstract: A transition-to-turbine seal assembly is provided. Seal members (52, 58) may include one or more anchoring tabs (54, 60) affixed only to an associated transition (56) and not to a neighboring transition (57). Thus, seal members (52, 58) may be practically free from high stress levels due to differing motion that can arise between neighboring transitions (56, 57). Additionally, seal members (100, 120) may include articulating segments (106, 108, 126, 128) arranged to provide a respective degree of freedom along a desired direction so that the seal members may be practically free from high stress levels while providing an effective sealing functionality.

Abstract: An acoustically dampened gas turbine engine (10) having a gas turbine engine combustor (12) with an acoustic damping resonator system is disclosed. The acoustic damping resonator system (14) may be formed from one or more resonators (16) formed from a resonator housing (18) positioned within the gas turbine engine combustor (12) at an outer housing (20) forming a combustor basket (22) and extending circumferentially within the combustor (12). In at least one embodiment, the resonator housing (18) may include one or more resonator chambers (18) that provide enhanced cooling with reduced risk of cracking and other damage. The resonator housing (18) may include resonator exhaust orifices (26) that are positioned closer to an area of maximum temperature within the combustor (12), thereby enabling the resonator (16) to reduce the temperature gradient within the combustor (12).

Abstract: A transition duct support apparatus and a method to support an exit frame in a transition duct in a gas turbine engine are provided. A stiffener (24) may be arranged to provide support to an outer edge (27) of an exit frame (12) in a transition duct (14). Stiffener (24) may be configured to circumferentially extend between mutually opposed corners (30) of the exit frame of the transition duct. A brace (26) may be connected to a centrally-disposed section (20) and may extend to support respective end portions (32) of the stiffener. The support apparatus is effective to provide a respective tuned level of stiffness support with respect to one or more axes of the exit frame in the transition duct. The apparatus and method may be effective for distributing mechanical stresses on the exit frame of the transition duct and/or neighboring regions in the transition duct.

Abstract: A burner having a pre-mixing passage delimited radially outwardly by a wall, a burner lance and a plurality of fuel injectors arranged in the pre-mixing passage, the injectors extending from the burner lance in the direction of the wall and having fuel nozzles. The fuel supply arrangement has at least one fluidic oscillator that has an interaction chamber, an inlet to the interaction chamber connected to a fuel channel of the fuel supply arrangement, a first outlet channel of the interaction chamber extending at least to a first fuel nozzle and a second outlet channel extending at least to a second fuel nozzle, the fluidic oscillator has one feedback line for each outlet channel, one end of the feedback line terminating into the respective outlet channel downstream of the at least one fuel nozzle, and the other end thereof terminating into an inlet region of the interaction chamber.

Abstract: A tubular combustion chamber for a gas turbine has a combustion chamber head end, on which at least one first burner arrangement is arranged, a substantially cylindrical flame tube, which encloses a first combustion zone and includes a cylindrical flame tube end region, and a transition duct, the cylindrical flame tube end region projecting into the transition duct and the transition duct fluid-connecting the flame tube to a combustion chamber outlet, which can be arranged on a turbine inlet region, wherein the cylindrical flame tube end region has a number of cooling ducts, which run substantially parallel to the lateral face of the flame tube end region in the interior of the flame tube end region. The cooling ducts are configured and/or arranged such that on average less cooling air flows through regions under low thermal load than through regions under high thermal load of the flame tube end region.

Abstract: A combustion chamber for a gas turbine has at least one housing component with a housing wall arranged around a hot-gas path and includes a hot side, which can be charged with hot gas, and an oppositely situated cold side. In the housing wall, there extends a number of cooling ducts each with an inner side, which cooling ducts each include an inflow region, which opens toward the cold side, and an outflow region, which opens into the interior of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber permits cooling of the housing component, a reduction in pollutant emissions from the combustion chamber, and low production costs for the housing component. Turbulence generators are arranged in at least one of the cooling ducts, wherein the turbulence generators are web-like ribs which extend along the inner side of the cooling duct and which are formed integrally with the housing wall.

Abstract: A gas turbine system (1) including a burner arrangement having a tubular combustion chamber (5), a turbine (6) and a transition duct (7) connecting the combustion chamber (5) and the turbine (6), wherein the transition duct (7) is provided with an axially extending cooling air channel (11). The transition duct (7) includes a plurality of axially extending cooling air channels, and wherein each cooling air channel (11) is provided with one single inlet (12) opened to the outside of the transition duct (7) and with one single outlet (12) opened to the inside of the transition duct (7).

Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.

Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.

Abstract: A burner of a gas turbine including a reaction chamber and a plurality of jet nozzles opening into the reaction chamber is provided. Fluid is injected through an outlet into the reaction chamber by the jet nozzles using of a fluid stream wherein the fluid is burned into hot gas in the reaction chamber. An annular gap is disposed about the fluid stream for at least one jet nozzle so that a part of the hot gas is drawn out of the reaction chamber and flows opposite the fluid flow direction into the annular gap and is mixed with the fluid stream within the jet nozzle. The ring gap is formed by means of an insert tube, and wherein the insert rube includes a thickening at the upstream end. A method for stabilizing the flame of such a burner of a gas turbine is also provided.

Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber (8) surrounded by an inner wall (2) having cooling air bores (17) and an outer wall (9) that is spaced from the inner wall (2). The outer wall (9) likewise has cooling air bores (16) and is formed of a plurality of wall elements (11) that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the gas turbine combustion chamber (8) essentially next to each other. The outer wall elements are arranged on the inner wall (2) by means of a fixed bearing (24) on one narrow side (21) of a wall element and by means of a floating bearing (25) on an opposite narrow side (21) of the element, configured to define a hollow space (10) is formed between the two walls (2, 9).

Abstract: A method for operating a burner comprising a burner axis and at least one jet nozzle is provided. The nozzle or nozzles include a central axis, a jet nozzle outlet, a wall that runs in a radial direction starting from the central axis and that faces the burner axis and a volumetric fluid flow that includes a fuel and flows through the jet nozzle or nozzles to the jet nozzle outlet. An air film is formed at the jet nozzle outlet between the volumetric fluid flow including the fuel and the wall that faces the burner axis by means of air that is injected into the jet nozzle or nozzles along the wall that faces the burner axis.

Abstract: A gas-turbine burner having a plurality of main swirl generators which each have an inlet flow opening formed by the main swirl generator edge is provided. In order to achieve a uniform flow of combustion air through the main swirl generator, the gas-turbine burner has an inlet-flow guide means with a flow guide surface which runs from one of the inlet-flow openings to an adjacent inlet-flow opening, to which the main swirl generator edges which form the inlet-flow openings are connected, and the flow guide surface widens from there radially upwards. The main swirl generators are central-symmetrically arranged around a pilot burner and the flow guide surface runs radially outside the main swirl generators.

Abstract: A gas-turbine burner having a plurality of main swirl generators which each have an inlet flow opening formed by the main swirl generator edge is provided. In order to achieve a uniform flow of combustion air through the main swirl generator, the gas-turbine burner has an inlet-flow guide means with a flow guide surface which runs from one of the inlet-flow openings to an adjacent inlet-flow opening, to which the main swirl generator edges which form the inlet-flow openings are connected, and the flow guide surface widens from there radially upwards. The main swirl generators are central-symmetrically arranged around a pilot burner and the flow guide surface runs radially outside the main swirl generators.