Including Whirler Device To Induce Fluid Rotation Patents (Class 239/399)
  • Patent number: 11428412
    Abstract: A fuel spray nozzle arrangement for a combustor, the fuel spray nozzle arrangement comprising a fuel spray nozzle connected to a feed arm, wherein the feed arm comprises an aerofoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca Tentorio, Juan Carlos Roman Casado, Giacomo Di Chiaro, Jonathan Knapton, Filippo Zambon, Radu Irimia
  • Patent number: 11371701
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a forward liner segment and an aft liner segment positioned downstream from the forward liner segment relative to a direction of flow through the combustor. The forward and aft liner segments at least partially define a combustion chamber. Furthermore, the combustor includes a dilution slot frame positioned between the forward and aft liner segments along a longitudinal centerline of the gas turbine engine. Moreover, the dilution slot frame defines a plurality of dilution slots spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the gas turbine engine such that the plurality of dilution slots provides an annular ring of dilution air to the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gurunath Gandikota, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Michael Anthony Benjamin, Daniel J. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 11192078
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injection device (10) for atomizing a liquid into droplets using a gas, comprising a hollow tubular body (12) having a longitudinal direction (X). An inner wall (13) defines a first region, referred to as contact region (Z1), and a second region (Z2). The body (12) has an inner cross-section that varies continuously or constantly over the entire length thereof except at the junction between the first and second regions, where the inner wall (13) of the body includes at least one cavity (201) which increases the size of the inner cross-section of the body, said at least one cavity extending over a predefined length in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOTAL RAFFINAGE CHIMIE
    Inventors: Romain Lesage, Sébastien Decker, Jean-Christophe Raboin, Youen Kerneur
  • Patent number: 10914237
    Abstract: An airblast injector for gas turbines is disclosed. The airblast injector assembly consists of fuel swirler, a swirler cup, and a combustor dome. The airblast injector is designed to improve engine performance without using a fuel staging system to incorporate pressure injectors. The swirler cup is provided with pressurized air which exits the swirler cup with high velocity that penetrates perpendicularly into the fuel spray cone obtained by orifices in the fuel swirler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Daih-Yeou Chen
  • Patent number: 10371057
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Kaspar Loeffel, Andre Theuer, Nico Biagioli, Alexey Stytsenko, Sergey Mylnikov, Igor Baibuzenko
  • Patent number: 9951736
    Abstract: A fuel injector tip for a fuel injector. The fuel injector tip includes an inner tip surface and an outer tip surface that is opposite to the inner tip surface. At least one orifice extends through the fuel injector tip from the inner tip surface to the outer tip surface, and is configured to atomize fuel flowing therethrough to generate a fuel mist. The fuel injector tip is three-dimensionally printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Powell
  • Patent number: 9810186
    Abstract: Provided is an injector (30) having a plurality of injector modules (44) that include a spray cup having a chamber and a plurality of radial air passages for directing air radially into the chamber, and a pressure swirl atomizer attached to the spray cup and having a fluid passage for directing fluid axially into chamber and an air passage for directing air axially into the chamber. By providing radial and axial air flow and axial fuel flow into the chamber, the fuel may be mixed to prevent local hot spots that lead to high NOx emissions, and a stable flame may be maintained without autoignition and flashback. The axial air flow also prevents recirculation zones from forming at a base of the spray cup, provides improved atomization and enhanced combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Adel B. Mansour, Michael Teter, Erlendur Steinthorsson, Brian P. Hollon, Jeffery R. Lehtinen, Raman Ras
  • Patent number: 9739488
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided that can stably burn two kinds of gas fuels having different heating values by means of the same burner. In the gas turbine combustor that includes a combustion chamber for mixing fuel and air for combustion and a burner, disposed upstream of the combustion chamber, for jetting fuel and air into the combustion chamber and holding flames, the burner has a first swirler including a plurality of fuel holes and of air holes circumferentially alternately and a second swirler including a plurality of holes through which to jet fuel or air, the second swirler is disposed on the outer circumference of the first swirler, and each of the holes of the second swirler is greater in width than each of the air holes of the first swirler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Akinori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9713687
    Abstract: A transition adapter component of a ventilator aerosol delivery system for delivering an aerosol to a patient, includes a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having an aerosol passage for receiving an aerosol produced by a heated capillary and a gas connection port for receiving carrier gas from a ventilator, which is in communication with a plurality of gas entry ports within the transition adapter. An inner cavity of the transition adapter receives the aerosol from the heated capillary and the streams of carrier gas from the plurality of gas exit ports within the transition adapter and directs the streams of carrier gas at least partially encircling and in parallel with the aerosol. An exit port on the distal end of the transition adapter housing delivers an entrained aerosol to an aerosol delivery connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: James Leamon, Timothy J. Gregory, Jan Mazela, Christopher Henderson
  • Patent number: 9322375
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve realizing improved circumferential uniformity of swirling fuel is provided. The fuel injection valve includes swirling chambers each having an inner peripheral wall whose curvature is gradually larger from upstream to downstream, paths for swirling each of which, having a fuel flow-in region formed along a valve axis direction, guides fuel to the associated one of the swirling chambers, and fuel injection orifices open into the associated swirling chambers, respectively. In the fuel injection valve, a curved portion is formed on the bottom, in a sectional view along the valve axis direction, of an inlet portion of each of the paths for swirling so as to change the fuel flow in each of the paths for swirling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Kazuki Yoshimura, Noriyuki Maekawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Eiji Ishii, Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 9180471
    Abstract: A two-substance nozzle for spraying a liquid-gas mixture, including a nozzle housing including at least one liquid inlet leading into a mixing chamber and at least one gas inlet leading into the mixing chamber, a swirl insert, an outlet chamber between the swirl insert and an outlet opening on the downstream end of the outlet chamber, wherein a restrictor is provided on the downstream end of the mixing chamber and an intermediate chamber is provided between the restrictor and the swirl insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LECHLER GMBH
    Inventors: Timo Schlecht, Lars Vater, Markus Astfalk
  • Patent number: 9027854
    Abstract: A simple, compact construction and easy manufacture of a swirl nozzle having a plurality of inlet channels and an outlet channel extending transversely thereto are made possible by the fact that the inlet channels open directly and/or tangentially into the outlet channel. Alternatively or additionally, upstream of the inlet channels is provided a filter structure having smaller flow cross-sections than the inlet channels. The swirl nozzle is used, in particular, for atomizing a liquid medicament formulation. The swirl nozzle is produced from two plate-shaped components, the outlet channel first being etched as a blind bore in one component and then opened up by grinding the component away. Alternatively or additionally, the outlet channel is formed in a different component from the inlet channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Moser, Klaus Kadel
  • Patent number: 9021811
    Abstract: A swirler for mixing fuel and air is provided. The swirler includes a plurality of vanes positioned radially around a central axis of the swirler and a plurality of mixing channels for mixing the fuel and the air. At least one mixing channel of the plurality of mixing channels is defined by opposite walls of two adjacent vanes of the plurality of vanes and is comprising at least one fuel injection opening and is further comprising at least one dimple for generating a vortex of the air. Further, a combustion chamber incorporating such a swirler and a gas turbine incorporating such a combustion chamber are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Kam-Kei Lam
  • Patent number: 9016601
    Abstract: A swirler including a fuel distributor is provided. Each fuel distributor includes a distribution element defining a cavity, an inlet opening arranged in the distribution element, at least one outlet opening arranged in the distribution element, and at least one third opening arranged in the distribution element, the cross-section of the at least one third opening being larger than the cross-section of the at least one outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Headland, Richard Noden
  • Patent number: 8955771
    Abstract: A device for injecting a liquid, particularly an aqueous urea solution, into an exhaust gas flow has at least one atomizing nozzle which is designed as a two-component nozzle and by means of which the liquid is injected into the exhaust gas flow by means of pressurized air such that the liquid can be mixed with the pressurized air first directly upon exiting, or after exiting, the respective atomizing nozzle outside of the atomizing nozzle. The atomizing nozzle, or each atomizing nozzle, has a nozzle base body, a nozzle air cap and a nozzle insert which are formed as turning parts. The respective atomizing nozzle can be connected to a nozzle lance via the nozzle base body, and the nozzle air cap and the nozzle insert are received and held in the nozzle base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventors: Plamen Toshev, Stephan Schlüter
  • Patent number: 8944349
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shower apparatus that allows the user to have a shower stream with a voluminous feel, even when a small volume of water is discharged, and also with a stimulus sensation arising from water being discharged in a pulsating manner. A shower apparatus F1 periodically changes the volume of air taken into an aeration unit 43 by oscillating a main water stream ejected toward the aeration unit 43 from a throttle unit 42 in a direction crossing the direction of the ejection, so that the bubbly water discharged from a water discharge unit 44 creates a pulsating shower stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotake Ukigai, Minoru Sato, Katsuya Nagata
  • Patent number: 8915069
    Abstract: Arrangement for introducing a liquid medium into exhaust gases from a combustion engine: an exhaust gas line (2), an injection chamber (3) bounded in radial directions by a tubular wall (8), an injector (13) injects the liquid medium into the injection chamber; a mixing duct (14) to which the injection chamber has an outlet (10) for delivering exhaust gases; a bypass duct (15) which has an outlet (17) via which it is connected to the mixing duct, and an endwall (7) at the injection chamber's downstream end and demarcating the chamber from the mixing duct, such that the chamber's outlet is situated at the periphery of the endwall. The outlet of the bypass duct is close to the outlet of the injection chamber so that the exhaust gases which flow into the mixing duct via the chamber's outlet will collide with the exhaust gases which flow into the mixing duct via the outlet of the bypass duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Scania CV Ab (Publ)
    Inventor: Peter Loman
  • Patent number: 8904752
    Abstract: A cap for a liquid propellant injection assembly of a rocket engine includes a cap body and a valve assembly. The cap body extends between first and second ends. The cap body has a bore that fluidly connects one or more inlets to an outlet. The inlets are disposed in a tubular sidewall of the cap body. The outlet is disposed in the second end of the cap body. The valve assembly includes a valve cap disposed around the first end of the cap body. The valve assembly is adapted to selectively regulate flow of a propellant through the inlets in the cap body as a function of pressure exerted by the propellant against the valve assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley C. Johnson, Randolph T. Lyda, Ryan W. Brandt, Mark J. Ricciardo
  • Patent number: 8882491
    Abstract: The invention is a connection duct between the blower and a mixing device of a burner. The connection duct expands wedge-shaped along a first direction and diverts air from the blower to a second direction. The connection duct further comprises diverting means for diverting the air in a circular flow around the second direction corresponding to a longitudinal axis of the mixing device. The diverting means comprise a tube section with at least one inflow opening arranged in the peripheral wall of the diverting means. A truncated cone comprising a tapering section is arranged in the tube section so that the tapering section faces in the direction of the mixing device. A passage cross-section of the inflow opening can be adjusted by a tube arranged in the peripheral wall which can be rotated around the tube's longitudinal axis and bears against the internal surface of the tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Dome Holding GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Rütten
  • Patent number: 8876021
    Abstract: An applicator assembly for mixing at least a first and second component is provided. The applicator assembly includes a manifold configured for operable engagement with at least a first and second source of component, the manifold including at least a first and second component channel therethrough, an elongated shaft extending distally from the manifold, the elongated shaft including at least a first and second component lumen extending the length thereof, the at least first and second component channels in fluid communication with the at least first and second component channels, a tip assembly defining a first chamber, an intermediate chamber and a final chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Confluent Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Fortier, Les Hull, Art Driscoll
  • Patent number: 8857739
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine is disclosed which is able to operate with high combustion efficiency, and low nitrous oxide emissions during gas turbine operations. The combustor consists of a can-type configuration which combusts fuel premixed with air and delivers the hot gases to a turbine. Fuel is premixed with air through a swirler and is delivered to the combustor with a high degree of swirl motion about a central axis. This swirling mixture of reactants is conveyed downstream through a flow path that expands; the mixture reacts, and establishes an upstream central recirculation flow along the central axis. A cooling assembly is located on the swirler co-linear with the central axis in which cooler air is conveyed into the prechamber between the recirculation flow and the swirler surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Flexenergy Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yimin Huang, Shaun Sullivan, Brian Finstad, Alexander Haplau-Colan
  • Publication number: 20140252131
    Abstract: A torch is provided having a tube having an inside diameter, a body and an orifice tip having a bore, where the diameter of the bore of the orifice tip and the inside diameter of the tube have a particular ratio based upon the type of fuel used for the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Todd R. NOLAN
  • Patent number: 8827183
    Abstract: A hand-held paint spray gun apparatus having a paint reservoir on the gun and reciprocating piston driven by a motor in the hand-held paint spray gun, the gun having a multiple orifice spray tip with a pair of apertures emitting generally fan or cone shaped overlapping spray patterns. A locking nut retains the cylinder to a motor frame and a frame carries the spray tip, with one of the nut and frame having a corrugated surface and the other of the locking nut and the spray tip frame having a plurality of protrusions engaging the corrugated surface. The protrusions are spaced apart circumferentially from each other and with respect to the spacing of a plurality of troughs and crests in the corrugated surface such that only one protrusion at a time is nested in a trough of the corrugated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Wagner Spray Tech Corporation
    Inventor: Michael B. Jones
  • Patent number: 8827187
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a nozzle body provided with an injection hole at a tip portion; a needle that is located slidably in the nozzle body and includes a seat portion seated on a seat position in the nozzle body; and an air bubble generation means generating air bubbles in a fuel flowing through the nozzle body, and when a curvature radius is R, a length of a curve is L and a constant is a, an inner peripheral shape of the injection hole includes a curving part passing through a region surrounded by a clothoid curve which is expressed by R×L=a2 and of which the constant a is 0.95 and an clothoid curve of which the constant a is 1.05 or a region surrounded by approximate curves of the clothoid curves at a cross-section surface along a direction of axis of the injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8820662
    Abstract: A nozzle for generating an aerosol from a fluid and a gas is described. The nozzle comprises at least one wettable cone-shaped gas exit channel that widens in a direction of gas flow from a cone apex to a cone base of the wettable cone-shaped gas exit channel and is connected at the cone apex to a nozzle gas supply channel. The nozzle further comprises at least one annular fluid exit port at the circumference of the cone base that is connected to a nozzle fluid supply channel. Further, a nozzle holder is described. The nozzle holder comprises a cylindrical crown comprises a plurality of circumferentially spaced grooves that are connected to the ring-shaped fluid exit port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Inventor: Donovan B. Yeates
  • Patent number: 8820047
    Abstract: A combustion burner 10A according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a fuel nozzle 110; a burner tube 120 forming the air passage 111 between the burner tube 120 and the fuel nozzle 110; swirler vanes (swirler vanes) 130 arranged in a plurality of positions in the circumferential direction on the external circumferential surface of the fuel nozzle 110, each extending along the axial direction of the fuel nozzle 110, and gradually curving from upstream toward downstream; and a liquid fuel injecting hole 133A from which a liquid fuel is injected to a surface of each of the swirler vanes 130. The combustion burner 10A also includes multi-purpose injecting holes 11-1 to 11-3 as a cooling unit that cools a part of a vane pressure surface 132a of the swirler vane 130 on which the liquid fuel LF hits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Saito, Koichi Ishizaka, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 8807458
    Abstract: A vortex-generating nozzle-end ring includes a body having an outer periphery and an aperture disposed through the body, the aperture defining an inner periphery of the body, the body being adaptable to the end of a nozzle, and at least one tab extending from the inner periphery radially inwardly toward the center of the aperture. In another embodiment, a nozzle includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis having an inlet and an outlet; a vortex-generating nozzle-end ring disposed on the outlet, including a body having an outer periphery and an aperture disposed through the body, the aperture defining an inner periphery of the body, the body being adaptable to the end of nozzle; and at least one tab extending from the inner periphery radially inwardly toward the center of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventor: Hany Abdulrahman M. Al-Ansary
  • Publication number: 20140191055
    Abstract: A fuel atomizer that includes a housing having a fuel inlet and at least one primary orifice positioned at the inlet, wherein the at least one orifice configured to disperse a stream of fuel into a plurality of fuel droplets. The plurality of fuel droplets contact a fuel impingement surface to break up the plurality of fuel droplets into a plurality of smaller secondary droplets and create a thin film of secondary droplets on the impingement surface. At least one pressurized air channel delivers an airflow into contact with the secondary droplets. The secondary droplets pass through a plurality of secondary outlet orifices to exit the housing. A size of the plurality of secondary droplets is reduced when passing out of the plurality of secondary orifices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: ENGINETICS, LLC
    Inventors: John Amaya, Luke Cruff, Joseph Lull, Marcel Prado, Bradley J. Vieau
  • Patent number: 8690078
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing ozonated water on demand. In particular, these systems comprise a water source, an ozone source, and a nozzle that mixes ozone and water to form a highly concentrated, ozonated water solution. Instead of requiring the ozonated water to be re-circulated to achieve a desired ozone concentration, the nozzle is configured to form the ozonated water solution in a single pass through the nozzle. Additionally, instead of requiring the ozonated water to be discharged into a pressurized tank to increase ozone absorption, the nozzle allows the ozonated water to be openly discharged. In some cases, the nozzle comprises a venturi with multiple ozone inlets to increase mixing. Additionally, in some cases the nozzle comprises a single pass mixing mechanism that mixes the water and ozone to form the high concentrate, ozonated water solution in a single pass through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas D. Gillette
  • Patent number: 8662423
    Abstract: A nozzle for a fuel injector, in particular for a gas-turbine engine, is provided comprising a planar conductive electrode with a sharp edge forming an aperture, an upper insulation layer above the electrode and a lower insulation layer below the electrode, both insulation layers having apertures, and a swirler arrangement for creating a swirling action in liquid fuel introduced into the nozzle. The axis of swirl is generally perpendicular to the plane of the electrode. In use, the swirling fuel passes through the aperture of the lower insulation layer, the aperture of the conductive electrode and the aperture of the upper insulation layer. As the fuel passes through the aperture of the electrode, the electrode charges the swirling fuel, so that the nozzle supplies charged droplets of atomized fuel from an outlet orifice. The swirler arrangement may be a radial or axial swirler arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Nigel Wilbraham
  • Patent number: 8657212
    Abstract: A coaxial syringe spray assembly that includes a first receptacle defined by the assembly, a second receptacle defined by the assembly and in coaxial alignment with the first receptacle, and a spray tip assembly configured to be in fluid communication with both the first receptacle and the second receptacle. The spray tip defines a first fluid chamber in fluid communication with the first receptacle, a second fluid chamber in fluid communication with the first receptacle, and an outlet port that defines a blending chamber that is in fluid communication with the second receptacle, the first fluid chamber, and the second fluid chamber such that a first fluid introduced into the first fluid chamber and a second fluid introduced into the second fluid chamber are mixed in the blending chamber to provide a mixture having a helical flow pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Biomet Biologics, LLC
    Inventor: Ned M. Hamman
  • Patent number: 8640463
    Abstract: A swirler for fuel injection in a gas turbine engine includes a frustoconical swirler body. A first and a second air flow path direct air in generally opposed circumferential directions into the swirler. These air paths intermix and create turbulence. As this turbulence encounters fuel droplets, the fuel is atomized, and uniformly distributed within the air flow. A shear layer is created adjacent an inner surface of the swirler body. In a separate feature, a third air flow path is directed into the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Albert K. Cheung
  • Patent number: 8579214
    Abstract: A vane used on a swirler is provided. The vane includes a thin end and a broad end, the broad end has sharp edges and is arranged on the outside of the swirler, the thin end is arranged on the inside of the swirler. The vane also includes at least one swirl slot side profile, the at least one swirl slot side profile includes a unit providing turbulence to an air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Paul Headland
  • Patent number: 8567769
    Abstract: Apparatus and process for dissolving gas in a liquid. The process comprises: tangentially introducing a liquid into a chamber having an inner wall with sufficient volume and pressure to develop a vortex in the flowing liquid; orthogonally introducing gas into the flowing liquid through means located at the chamber inner wall for developing gas bubbles within the liquid. The apparatus comprises: a cylindrical chamber having a cylindrical inner wall, the chamber being oriented in any direction enclosed at both ends and with an entry port to introduce liquid to develop a spiral flow of liquid along the chamber inner wall toward the output end, a porous wall to permit the introduction of gas orthogonally into the stream to develop gas bubbles within the stream, and an exit port to discharge the mixture of gas bubbles and liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Inventor: Jakob H. Schneider
  • Patent number: 8555650
    Abstract: A combustion device includes: a combustion liner in which a combustion chamber is formed; a main burner provided at a top portion of the combustion liner and including a premix passage configured to annularly inject a pre-mixed gas of a fuel and air into the combustion chamber and a radial swirler configured to introduce the fuel and the air to the premix passage in a radially inward direction; and a fuel injection pipe configured to inject the fuel to the radial swirler from an entrance side of the radial swirler, and the radial swirler is divided into a plurality of swirler stages by dividing plates in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kashihara, Yasushi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8528338
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating an air-staged diffusion nozzle for a gas turbine combustor to cool the nozzle tip and improve mixing of gas fuel and air within a downstream burner space. Air is mixed with the gas-fuel in an outer swirler and expanded in a downstream burner tube space. Compressed air from a cooling air cavity in the nozzle flows through an inner swirler, passing downstream from the tip of the nozzle to the burner tube space, cooling the nozzle tip and improving the mixing of the gas-fuel with air, thereby reducing emissions from the gas turbine and reducing soot formation in startup. Direction and rotation of the discharged air from the nozzle tip into the burner space may be arranged to promote nozzle tip cooling and gas-fuel mixing with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anand Prafulchandra Desai, Karthick Kaleeswaran, Venugopal Polisetty
  • Patent number: 8522556
    Abstract: In an air-staged diffusion nozzle for a gas turbine combustor, air is mixed with the gas fuel and expanded in a downstream burner tube. Introduction of air, passing downstream from the tip of the nozzle to the burner tube space forces hot gases away from and cools the nozzle tip. Air flow through an inner swirler or through cooling holes on the nozzle tip may be arranged to establish a cooling flow volume and direction that advantageously interacts with gas fuel-air flow from an outer swirler to improve fuel-air mixing in the burner tube, helping to reduce emissions and soot formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anand Prafulchandra Desai, Karthick Kaleeswaran, Venugopal Polisetty
  • Publication number: 20130175364
    Abstract: An atomizing nozzle includes a body, a rotor and a guiding structure. The body has an inlet, an outlet and a passage connecting the inlet to the outlet. The rotor assembled in the passage has first to third sections. The second section is disposed between the first and third sections, and has an outer diameter larger than those of the first and third sections. The guiding structure formed on a surface of the second section has a helical portion and an air passage portion, which is located within a pitch of the helical portion. An external edge of the helical portion abuts upon a wall of the passage. The rotor mounted within the passage cannot generate the significant lateral displacement and raked state, and water or liquid uniformly flows through the air passage portion located on a periphery of the rotor, and the atomizing state becomes stable and uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventor: Yu-Chiung HUANG
  • Patent number: 8468831
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention provide a premixed pilot assembly for use with a fuel nozzle for a turbine. The level of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emitted by the pilot is reduced by mixing the fuel and air fast, at the end of the pilot nozzle, thereby avoiding significant zones of rich fuel and air mixtures. The air is mixed with the fuel through the use of openings in a first cylinder and a second cylinder, one of which carries air and one of which carries pilot fuel. The openings can be configured as necessary to obtain a desired effect on the pilot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Krishnakumar Venkataraman, Manish Kumar, Jason Thurman Stewart
  • Publication number: 20130099007
    Abstract: Mixing valve turbulence generators and methods are disclosed. Embodiments include turbulence generation apparatuses and methods that increase the turbulence of, impart swirl to, reverse the direction of, create tortuous paths for, and/or accelerate the mixing of hot and cold fluid within a valve assembly. Alternate embodiments include angled radial slots, angled surfaces and fin-like baffles to enhance the mixing of hot and cold fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: MAGARL, LLC
    Inventor: Magarl, LLC
  • Patent number: 8424310
    Abstract: A mixing chamber with a wall and at least one vortex generating element arranged on the wall is provided. The vortex generating element has at least three surfaces, at least one of the surfaces forming a top surface and the other surfaces forming at least first and second side surfaces, the first and second side surfaces arranged not in parallel, the top surface being in contact with the wall via a front edge of the top surface, the front edge extending traverse to a flow direction, the top surface further abutting the first and second side faces forming first and second edges, the first side surface extending in parallel to the flow direction so that the first edge does not contribute to generating a vortex, and the second side surface extending not in parallel to the flow direction so that the second edge contributes to generating the vortex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Khawar Syed
  • Publication number: 20130087636
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spray nozzle for addition of substances into a reactive mixture, comprising a housing (12), a connection (14) provided on the housing (12) and having an inlet (16) for the reactive mixture, wherein the connection (14) can be connected to a mixing head, and the inlet leads to a mixing chamber (30), and a material outlet opening (28) at the downstream end of the mixing chamber (30). In order to add pressure-sensitive substances, it is proposed to provide at least one supply (18) for the substance to be added, which has a channel (20) that is connected to the mixing chamber (30) via at least one inlet opening, and at least one air supply (22) which feeds into the mixing chamber (30) in flow direction downstream of the inlet opening via at least one air supply opening (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst Scheidt
  • Patent number: 8408197
    Abstract: A burner apparatus includes a first tube having a first longitudinal bore and a second tube having a second longitudinal bore. The second tube is disposed within the first longitudinal bore such that an annular space is defined between the second tube and the first tube. The burner apparatus further includes a nozzle formed at a tip of the second tube. A plurality of side holes are formed in the nozzle. The side holes are slanted relative to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle and are in communication with the second longitudinal bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Curtis Richard Cowles
  • Patent number: 8408480
    Abstract: A spray tip assembly capable of self-clearing is provided. The spray tip assembly includes a distal end including an outlet. The outlet defines at least a first configuration during a first condition and at least a second configuration during a second condition. The distal end may be configured to at least one of flex and expand such that the outlet changes from the first configuration to the second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Confluent Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Les Hull, Derek Rissman, Jason Fortier, Art Driscoll
  • Patent number: 8393555
    Abstract: A moistening nozzle of a paper web comprises a frame into which air and water are fed. Inside the frame there is arranged a water nozzle wherewith water is conducted to an outlet of the moistening nozzle and an air nozzle wherewith air is correspondingly conducted to the outlet. The air nozzle and the water nozzle are arranged one within the other such that the air and the water form water mist that is sprayed out from the moistening nozzle. The air nozzle is provided with a thread that brings the air in swirling motion. The air nozzle comprises a sleeve part with an opening through which air is discharged and in said opening there is arranged a piece that is an integral part of the frame of the moistening nozzle, whereby a part of the moistening nozzle frame forms an inner edge of the air gap provided by said piece and the sleeve part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Metso Automation Oy
    Inventors: Hannu Niemela, Niko Posti, Jari Almi
  • Patent number: 8393157
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel nozzle for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a nozzle inlet, a combustion area and a swirler disposed between the nozzle inlet and combustion area. The swirler includes a plurality of swirler vanes, each swirler vane capable of creating a pressure difference in fluid flow through the swirler between a pressure side and suction side of the swirler vane. The swirler further includes at least one through airflow hole located in at least one swirler vane of the plurality of swirler vanes. The at least one through airflow hole is capable of utilizing the pressure difference between the pressure side and suction side to promote fluid flow through the at least one airflow hole. Also disclosed is a method for operating a combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Constantin Dinu
  • Patent number: 8387899
    Abstract: An applicator assembly for mixing at least a first and second component is provided. The applicator assembly includes a manifold configured for operable engagement with at least a first and second source of component, the manifold including at least a first and second component channel therethrough, an elongated shaft extending distally from the manifold, the elongated shaft including at least a first and second component lumen extending the length thereof, the at least first and second component channels in fluid communication with the at least first and second component channels, a tip assembly defining a first chamber, an intermediate chamber and a final chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Confluent Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Fortier, Les Hull, Arthur Driscoll
  • Patent number: 8333064
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine, reducing agent is diffused and the exhaust resistance is made small. The apparatus includes a reducing agent addition valve that injects reducing agent, a reducing agent addition valve mount portion that has a space in which the reducing agent addition valve injects the reducing agent outside a stream of exhaust gas flowing in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and on which the reducing agent addition valve is mounted, and an impingement portion that is provided in the reducing agent addition valve mount portion and on which the reducing agent injected through the reducing agent addition valve impinges, wherein the direction of injection of the reducing agent from the reducing agent addition valve is oriented toward the impingement portion, and toward downstream of the reducing agent addition valve with respect to the exhaust gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Bisaiji, Koichiro Fukuda, Mikio Inoue, Satoru Nitta, Kiyohiko Nagae
  • Patent number: 8316645
    Abstract: Disclosed is a triple swirl gas turbine combustor using various fuels such as coal gas, DiMethyl Ether, and waste gas generated in an ironworks in a gas turbine. The triple swirl gas turbine combustor combusts three different fuels simultaneously or individually and various fuels such as LCV gas and HCV gas so that fuel flexibility can be improved. Swirl generated in a second swirler of the triple swirler is reversely jetted to increase a mixing degree of a fuel-air mixture and an intensity of a turbulent flow so that combustion efficiency can be increased, harmful exhaust gas can be reduced and vibration can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation
    Inventors: Min Chul Lee, Dal Hong Ahn, Yong Jin Joo, Jae Hwa Chung, Si Moon Kim, Jin Pyo Hong, Won Shik Park
  • Patent number: 8316644
    Abstract: The invention relates to a burner, in particular a gas turbine burner, comprises: at least one swirler, the swirler having at least one air inlet opening, at least one air outlet opening positioned downstream to the air inlet opening and at least one swirler air passage extending from the at least one air inlet opening to the at least one air outlet opening which is delimited by swirler air passage walls, the air passage walls comprising downstream wall sections adjoining the at least one air outlet opening; and a fuel injection system which comprises fuel injection openings arranged in at least one swirler air passage wall so as to inject fuel into the swirler air passage; in which at least the downstream section of one air passage wall is corrugated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Nigel Wilbraham