Fuel And Air Premixed Prior To Combustion Patents (Class 60/737)
  • Patent number: 12270547
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle including nozzle modules, a combustor, and a gas turbine including the same are proposed. The nozzle module includes a fuel supply pipe having an internal fuel flow path, manifolds communicating with the fuel supply pipe and arranged in a row in a radial direction so that air inlet flow paths are respectively formed at positions therebetween, and fuel mixers disposed along a circumferential direction at the rear side of the manifold to receive the fuel from the manifold and inject the fuel, each of the plurality of fuel mixers including a mixer body having one end communicating with the manifold, wherein a tip is formed at the other end of the mixer body, a shroud disposed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the mixer body to guide an airflow, and at least one fuel port formed through the mixer body to inject fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mu Hwan Chon
  • Patent number: 12270543
    Abstract: A monolithic combustion liner for use in a gas turbine engine includes fuel channels integrated into the wall of the combustion liner. The integrated fuel channels can have an aerodynamic shape to reduce flow losses of cooling air flowing around the exterior of the combustion liner. The monolithic combustion liner allows more cooling air to flow around the combustion liner, increasing the cooling of the combustor region of the gas-turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Sean R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 12264820
    Abstract: A multi-stage micro-decomposition swirl burner with an ammonia-doped fuel, and a low NOx control method are provided. A natural gas central pipe, a primary air pipe and a burner housing are nested from inside to outside in sequence to form a primary air duct and an over-fire air channel which are isolated from each other. Natural gas is ejected from the natural gas central pipe, and swirl vanes are arranged in the primary air duct, such that the primary air can be mixed with the central natural gas in a swirl state, and then a diffusion flame is formed under the action of an ignition device. Therefore, a pilot flame with sustainable combustion is formed at the center of an injection end of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Shuiqing Li, Tong Si, Peng Ma, Yuanping Yang, Xiang Wang
  • Patent number: 12259136
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that are useful for controlling one or more aspects of a power production plant. More particularly, the disclosure relates to power production plants and methods of carrying out a power production method utilizing different fuel chemistries. Combustion of the different fuel mixtures can be controlled so that a defined set of combustion characteristics remains substantially constant across a range of different fuel chemistries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Xijia Lu, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Peter Michael McGroddy
  • Patent number: 12247522
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes at least one fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. A top surface of the protruding portion includes a convex curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuba, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keisuke Miura, Tomohiro Asai, Kenji Miyamoto, Tomo Kawakami, Kenta Taniguchi, Katsuyoshi Tada
  • Patent number: 12247740
    Abstract: A fuel injector has a body extending in an axial direction. The body includes: an axial passage formed so as to extend in the axial direction; a radial passage formed so as to communicate at one end with the axial passage and to open at another end to an outer surface of the body; and an internal passage including a first opening and a second opening open to the outer surface, and formed so as to extend inside the body from the first opening to the second opening. The first opening and the second opening are located opposite to each other across a third opening, through which the radial passage opens to the outer surface, in a circumferential direction centered on an axis of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Shinichi Fukuba, Mitsuhiro Nakao, Yoshikazu Matsumura, Kota Yoshino, Satoshi Takiguchi, Sosuke Nakamura, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 12241419
    Abstract: A fuel injector assembly can include a housing structure defining a circular shape, and one or more fuel injectors disposed in and/or formed integrally with the housing structure. The housing structure can be configured to angle the one or more fuel injectors in a direction such that the one or more fuel injectors effuse flow in a vector having a tangential flow component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Ryon, Lev A. Prociw, Brandon P. Williams
  • Patent number: 12222105
    Abstract: A combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles installed so as to be extended in a direction of a nozzle axis and configured to inject fuel toward one side in the direction of the nozzle axis, a pipe plate having a plurality of air holes formed therein so as to be extended in the direction of the nozzle axis, in which the air hole has an inner diameter larger than a tip end portion of the fuel nozzle and the tip end portions are respectively inserted into the air holes, and a step surface formed at a position of the tip end portion closer to the other side in the direction of the nozzle axis than a tip end surface of the tip end portion so as to be expanded in a radial direction with respect to the nozzle axis from a tip end outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Tomomi Koganezawa, Mitsuhiro Karishuku
  • Patent number: 12221923
    Abstract: A gas turbine cogeneration system includes a denitration control part for outputting to a denitration device a control command to set the amount of NOx emissions at a heat recovery steam generator outlet not more than a boiler outlet target value. The denitration control part is configured to generate the control command with reference to at least a first addition amount of a reducing agent obtained by calculation based on a NOx parameter which is a parameter correlated with the amount of NOx emissions at a turbine outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Asao, Kazuhiko Sato, Shohei Yoshida, Ryo Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12215866
    Abstract: A turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in axial flow arrangement. The combustion section can include a combustor having a fuel-air mixer. The fuel-air mixer can include a body with at least an air passage, as well as a set of mixing passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Ajoy Patra, Perumallu Vukanti, R Narasimha Chiranthan
  • Patent number: 12215858
    Abstract: A soot-suppression flame-separation combustion device for combustion calorimetry and in-situ free radicals monitoring is mainly composed of a premixed combustion gas guide tube, an inner flame generating seat, an oxidation flame separation guide, and a sample combustion chamber. The inner flame generating seat is arranged in the premixed combustion gas guide tube, the oxidation flame separation guide is arranged on the premixed combustion gas guide outlet end of the premixed combustion gas guide tube, the sample combustion chamber is a cavity arranged inside the oxidation flame separation guide, and the oxidation flame separation guide is evenly arranged with at least 4 oxidation flame separation guide paths in a manner of surrounding the sample combustion chamber. The combustion device utilizes the special structure of the oxidation flame separation guide to suppress the generation of smoke and limit the smoke particles to a specific combustion area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Sichuan University
    Inventors: Yuzhong Wang, Teng Fu, Xuan Song, Ran Wang, Yajie Yang, Yahan Kuang
  • Patent number: 12203659
    Abstract: A combustor cylinder includes a cylinder, and a fuel nozzle capable of injecting fuel into a combustion space of the cylinder. The cylinder has a plurality of cooling passages allowing cooling air to circulate therethrough, and a nozzle attachment penetration hole penetrating the cylinder from an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder to an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. The fuel nozzle has a mixing passage, a fuel passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying the fuel to the inside of the mixing passage, and a connection passage communicating with the mixing passage and capable of supplying cooling air from a part of the plurality of cooling passages to the inside of the mixing passage. A position in the mixing passage communicating with the connection passage is on a side where a spout port of the mixing passage is present from a position where the mixing passage communicates with the fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Geoffrey D. Myers, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12194538
    Abstract: An inlet manifold is for use in a laser powder bed fusion system having a build platform for carrying a powder bed and a pump or blower for supplying a gas flow in a direction relative to a surface of the build platform. The inlet manifold is made of a gas flow guide structure having a gas flow inlet to receive the gas flow and being comprised of a plurality of stacked gas flow guides, each being defined by top and bottom guide plates oriented downwards at an angle A relative to the direction of the gas flow for guiding the gas flow downwards towards a gas flow outlet. At least some of the top and the bottom guide plates have upwardly curved ends at the gas flow outlet to redirect the gas flow to be substantially parallel to the surface of the build platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anna Sailor, Brant E. Stoner, John Wojtowicz, III, Megan Emma Cooney, Shawn D. Leonard
  • Patent number: 12196421
    Abstract: An injector for a combustor of a gas turbine engine is provided with a plurality of first vanes radially arrayed about a central axis of the injector and a plurality of second vanes radially arrayed about the central axis of the injector and disposed radially inward of the plurality of first vanes. A plurality of fuel injection holes are disposed nearer to a trailing edge than to a leading edge of the second vanes for injecting fuel into compressed air passing through over the second vanes. The trailing edge of each of the second vanes includes a non-planar profile configured to induce turbulence in the compressed air to thereby mix the fuel with the compressed air and reduce the surfaces on which undesirable flame anchoring may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Power Systems Mfg., LLC
    Inventors: Dwain Terrell, Matthew Yaquinto, Fred Hernandez, Hany Rizkalla, Nicolas Demougeot, Peter John Stuttaford
  • Patent number: 12188658
    Abstract: Fuel injection assemblies and combustors are provided. A fuel injection assembly includes a boss that forms at least a portion of an annular wall. The annular wall defines a mixing channel that extends along a center axis. The fuel injection assembly further includes a fuel injector that has a radially outer wall and a radially inner wall that at least partially defines a fuel plenum. The fuel injector further includes a plurality of premix tubes that each extend along an injection axis from an inlet end on the radially outer wall through the fuel plenum to an outlet end, and wherein the injection axis is slanted towards the center axis of the mixing channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Wei Zhao, Bradley Donald Crawley, Michael John Hughes
  • Patent number: 12173898
    Abstract: A turbine engine with a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline. A combustion section for the turbine engine, having a primary combustor liner including an inner liner and an outer liner annular about an engine centerline. A dome wall extending between the inner liner and the outer liner. A set of primary dome inlets located in the dome wall and circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline. A set of secondary combustors fluidly coupled to a primary combustion chamber, the set of secondary combustors including a first mini combustor and a second mini combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Joseph Zelina, Sripathi Mohan, Perumallu Vukanti, Clayton S. Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Steven C. Vise, Karthikeyan Sampath
  • Patent number: 12163664
    Abstract: A premixer for a combustor includes: a centerbody having a hollow interior cavity; a swirler assembly radially outward of the centerbody; a peripheral wall disposed radially outward of the centerbody and the swirler assembly such that a mixing duct is defined between the peripheral wall and the centerbody, downstream from the swirler assembly; an annular splitter radially inward of the swirler assembly and radially outward of the centerbody such that a radial gap is defined between the splitter and an outer surface of the centerbody, wherein the splitter includes a trailing edge which extends axially aft of the swirler assembly; a fuel gallery disposed inside the interior cavity of the centerbody; and at least one fuel injector extending outward from the fuel gallery and passing through an injector port communicating with the outer surface of the splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Jayanth Sekar, Pradeep Naik, Gregory A. Boardman, Randall C. Boehm
  • Patent number: 12146661
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nozzle for a combustor that burns fuel containing hydrogen, which includes a plurality of mixing tubes through which air and fuel flow, and a multi-tube configured to insert the mixing tubes thereinto and support the same, wherein each of the mixing tubes has an inlet formed at a longitudinal end thereof for introduction of a first fluid, and a plurality of supply ports formed on a circumferential surface thereof for introduction of a second fluid, the mixing tube has a plurality of first supply ports formed on a first surface thereof, and a plurality of second supply ports formed on a second surface facing the first surface, and the first supply ports are staggered with the second supply ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung Taek Oh, Young Gun Go, Sang Pil Jo
  • Patent number: 12140312
    Abstract: Proposed is a combustor that includes a liner provided with a combustion chamber at an inner side of which a mixture of fuel and compressed air is combusted, a transition piece connected to an end of the liner, a fluid-flowing sleeve disposed at an outer side of the liner and the transition piece, and at least one injector configured to inject the mixture of fuel and air by being disposed on the liner or the transition piece, wherein the injector includes an injection pipe connected to the liner or the transition piece, a fuel supply unit configured to supply the fuel from a center part of a rear end of the injection pipe, and an air supply unit configured to supply the air from an inner circumferential part of the rear end of the injection pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hokeun Kim
  • Patent number: 12135129
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a first surface and a second surface. The component further includes a dilution hole defined by the first surface and the second surface. The component further includes a first effusion hole and a second effusion hole each having an inlet defined by the second surface and an outlet defined by the first surface such that the outlet of the first effusion hole is located nearer to the dilution hole than the outlet of the second effusion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumitaka Ichihashi, James B. Hoke
  • Patent number: 12134986
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for an acoustic damping device. An example apparatus includes a first channel defining a first volume, the first channel open on a first end and closed on a second end, a second channel surrounding the first channel and defining a second volume, and a plurality of discs oriented within the first channel, respective discs of the plurality of discs including an opening in a center of the respective disc to allow at least one of a fluid or acoustic oscillation to move from the first end to the second end, the first channel including a plurality of apertures dispersed along an outer wall of the first channel and between the plurality of discs, the apertures to facilitate transfer of at least one of the fluid or the acoustic oscillation from the first channel to the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hiranya Kumar Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Kwanwoo Kim, Dharmaraj Pachaiappan, Vivekta Sharma
  • Patent number: 12130013
    Abstract: A swirler-ferrule assembly includes a radial swirler, a ferrule, a fuel nozzle, and a surface feature. The radial swirler includes a primary swirler vane having a primary air passage and a secondary swirler vane having a secondary air passage. The ferrule may be connected to the radial swirler. The surface feature may be located on the primary swirler vane and/or the ferrule. The surface feature may be configured to direct an air flow through the primary air passage away from a recirculation zone located upstream of the primary swirler vane. The surface feature has a trailing end and a distal end, and the fuel nozzle is axially aligned with the trailing end of the surface feature or is located axially downstream of the trailing end of the surface feature. The surface feature may have a plurality of grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven C. Vise, Clayton S. Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Pradeep Naik, Kwanwoo Kim, Shai Birmaher, Perumallu Vukanti, Saket Singh, Karthikeyan Sampath
  • Patent number: 12110822
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling a power production plant and optionally providing a one or more product streams for an end use thereof. Control of a power production plant specifically can include executing one or more functions effective for adjusting a heat profile of a heat exchange unit (HEU) operating with a plurality of streams passing therethrough. This can include implementing a control function that alters a flow of one or more of the plurality of streams by adding flow to or withdrawing flow one or more of the plurality of streams at an intermediate temperature range within the HEU at a point that is positioned between a first end and a second end of the HEU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Brock Alan Forrest, Xijia Lu, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Navid Rafati
  • Patent number: 12098847
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment is a gas turbine combustor that includes: a tubular member; a plurality of premixing tubes circumferentially arranged on an inner side of the tubular member, each of the plurality of premixing tubes forming an outlet portion of a premixing passage; and a base plate for supporting the plurality of premixing tubes. The base plate has: a plurality of through holes disposed corresponding to the plurality of premixing tubes, respectively, and allowing the premixing passage to pass through the base plate; and a plurality of oblique holes extending obliquely with respect to an axial direction of the gas turbine combustor in a region different from a region where the through holes are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Akamatsu, Naoki Abe, Satoshi Takiguchi, Kei Inoue
  • Patent number: 12092332
    Abstract: An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. The fuel nozzle assembly can be configured to increase lateral provision of fuels to reduce flame scrubbing on combustor liners for the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra, Michael T. Bucaro, Perumallu Vukanti, Steven C. Vise, Michael A. Benjamin, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Saket Singh, Clayton S. Cooper
  • Patent number: 12085004
    Abstract: A swirl structure-based exhaust aftertreatment device for an underground mining diesel vehicle comprises a water tank, a PM collection tank, an inlet tube, a high-speed rotary exhaust separator, an exhaust catalytic converter, a circulating NOx selective catalytic reduction system and an exhaust tube. The high-speed rotary exhaust separator comprises a Laval tube, a throat tube, a swirl tube and a first deposition tube. The concentration of toxic and harmful components in exhaust can be decreased below a concentration threshold, thus avoiding pipeline blockage caused by PM accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wen Nie, Chengyi Liu, Yun Hua, Weimin Cheng, Xiao Yan, Fengning Yu, Zilian Zhu, Jie Lian, Chenwang Jiang, Chuanxing Cheng, Haonan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12072103
    Abstract: A turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The combustion section can include a combustor with a fuel premixer. The fuel premixer can include an annular shroud defining an interior, a center body located within the interior, and an annular swirler located within the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Ajoy Patra, R Narasimha Chiranthan
  • Patent number: 12066189
    Abstract: A method of optimising the performance of combustion equipment of a gas turbine engine includes providing a fuel flow into the combustion equipment via a plurality of fuel injectors circumferentially disposed about a principal rotational axis at a plurality of injector positions; determining a plurality of temperatures of combustion gases at a plurality of circumferential positions downstream of the combustion equipment using a plurality of temperature measurement devices; ranking the plurality of circumferential positions based on the plurality of temperatures of the combustion gases determined using the plurality of temperature measurement devices; and repositioning at least some of the plurality of fuel injectors between the plurality of injector positions based at least on the ranking of the circumferential positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Haidong Li, Krishnat Sadashiv Patil, Stewart J. Dawson
  • Patent number: 12055297
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a trapped vortex combustor and a method for operating trapped vortex combustor. In one embodiment, the trapped vortex combustor comprises a trapped vortex combustion zone and at least one secondary combustion zone disposed downstream of the trapped vortex combustion zone. The trapped vortex combustion zone is operable to receive and combust a first fuel and a first air and produce a first combustion product flowing toroidally therein. The at least one secondary combustion zone is operable to receive and combust the first combustion product and at least one second injection consisting of fuel and/or air and produce at least one second combustion product therein. The combustor may reduce the residence time of the highest temperature combustion products and achieve the lower NOx emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Michael Anthony Benjamin, Clayton Stuart Cooper, Joseph Zelina, Eric John Stevens
  • Patent number: 12055294
    Abstract: A nozzle device for feeding fuel into a combustion chamber of a gas turbine assembly, includes: a nozzle main body having nozzle openings for injecting the fuel into the combustion chamber; a nozzle bracket having a fuel line for fluidic connection between a manifold fuel line and the main body, wherein at least a portion of the fuel line is aligned along, a central longitudinal axis; and a throttle element disposed downstream of the manifold fuel line for throttling the fuel flow to a pre-specified target quantity. The throttle element includes two stages which are fluidically disposed in series, each stage having a line portion aligned along a central longitudinal axis and a flow cross section. A relaxation chamber is disposed between the stages, the flow cross section of the relaxation chamber being larger than the flow cross section of the upstream stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Carsten Clemen, Gregor Christoffer Gebel
  • Patent number: 12055296
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle including nozzle modules, a combustor, and a gas turbine including the same are proposed. The nozzle module includes a fuel supply pipe having an internal fuel flow path, manifolds communicating with the fuel supply pipe and arranged in a row in a radial direction, and fuel mixers disposed along a circumferential direction at the rear side of the manifold to receive the fuel from the manifold and inject the fuel, each of the plurality of fuel mixers including a mixer body having one end communicating with the manifold, the other end that is opened, and an mixing flow path through which air and the fuel flow, an air inlet port formed on a lateral side of the mixer body, a fuel port formed inside the mixer body and discharging the fuel supplied from the manifold to the mixing flow path, and an extension located at the other end of the mixer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mu Hwan Chon
  • Patent number: 12050013
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle, a combustor, and a gas turbine including the same are provided. The combustor nozzle includes a nozzle module. The nozzle module includes a central tube having an air flow path, through which air flows from a front-to-rear direction, and an opening hole at a rear end thereof, a shroud into which at least a part of the central tube is inserted, and having an air inlet at a front end thereof, wherein a mixing flow path is formed between the shroud and the central tube so that the air and injected fuel flow therethrough, and a plurality of cooling channels, each of the plurality of cooling channels extending rearward from an inlet communicating with the air flow path to an outlet communicating with the mixing flow path while passing through a sidewall portion of the central tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Borys Shershnyov
  • Patent number: 12044165
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor including a combustion chamber, which is connected to the ammonia tank; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst arranged in a bleed flow passage connected to the compressor, between the compressor and the combustor in the intake flow passage, or in a space in the combustor, which brings the combustion chamber and the intake flow passage into communication with each other, the ammonia cracking catalyst being connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Masahiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 12044411
    Abstract: A combustor includes an end cover and at least one fuel nozzle extending from the end cover and at least partially surrounded by a combustion liner. The combustor further includes an outer sleeve spaced apart from and surrounding the combustion liner such that an annulus is defined therebetween. The combustor further includes a fuel injection assembly. The fuel injection assembly includes a fuel injector that extends through the outer sleeve, the annulus, and the combustion liner to the secondary combustion zone. A fuel supply conduit positioned outside of the outer sleeve. The fuel supply conduit extending to the fuel injector. A shielding assembly coupled to the outer sleeve and at least partially surrounding the fuel supply conduit. The at least one fuel sweep opening is defined in the outer sleeve and disposed within the shielding assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Lucas John Stoia, Terese Marinita Martinez, Ronnie Ray Pentecost, Elizabeth Leigh Exley
  • Patent number: 12037947
    Abstract: A device for distributing at least one fuel flow for a circuit for supplying fuel to a combustion chamber of a turbo machine, in particular of an aircraft, the device including a rotating main body extending about a longitudinal axis, the main body including an internal flow duct for a first flow of fuel, extending through the main body along the axis, a first annular portion configured to form an outlet passage for a second flow of fuel, and including at least one orifice for the second flow of fuel to pass through, and an external annular groove in fluidic communication with the at least one orifice in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Kevin Didier Pierre Le Normand, Frederic Brettes, Loic Pora
  • Patent number: 12025314
    Abstract: A method of operating a combustor of a turbomachine on a total fuel input that contains a concentration of hydrogen that is greater than about 80% is provided. The method includes injecting a first mixture of air and a first fuel containing a first amount of hydrogen into the primary combustion zone of the combustor to generate a first flow of combustion gases having a first temperature. The method further includes injecting, with one or more premix injectors disposed downstream of the fuel nozzles, a second mixture of air and a second fuel containing a second amount of hydrogen into the secondary combustion zone of the combustor to generate a second flow of combustion gases having a second temperature. The method further includes separately injecting a third fuel into secondary combustion zone to generate a third flow of combustion gases having a third temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Hughes, Willy Steve Ziminsky
  • Patent number: 12025311
    Abstract: Known micromixers for fuel injection (e.g., in a gas turbine engine) experience early burning or have limited operability. Accordingly, a micromixer is disclosed that utilizes an air nozzle, in combination with one or more fuel jets, to produce short flames that minimize the emission of nitrogen oxides, while providing additional benefits, such as mechanical robustness, aerodynamic efficiency, resistance to flame damage, suitability for additive manufacturing, wider operating ranges, operation with a variety of gaseous fuels, and/or amenability to control using conventional mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Gareth W. Oskam, Georgina J. McGee, Yonduck Sung, Gregory Michael Balow, Rajeshriben Patel, Nathan J. Kirksey
  • Patent number: 12006881
    Abstract: A method of controlling a combustor of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The method comprising the steps supplying a total fuel quantity to the combustor dependent on a load of the gas turbine engine, the total fuel quantity is split into a pilot fuel quantity and a main fuel quantity via a pilot fuel split, monitoring at least one signal of at least one condition of the gas turbine engine, generating a steady state value of the at least one signal indicative of a steady state of the gas turbine engine, detecting a change in the at least one signal from the steady-state value. When the change in the at least one signal from the steady state value exceeds a predetermined limit, the method applies the steps generating a transient split offset for the pilot fuel split from a look-up table and applying the transient split offset to the pilot fuel split while maintaining the total fuel quantity being supplied at any point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Brian Beesley, Dorian Skipper
  • Patent number: 12000589
    Abstract: Proposed are a jet nozzle, and a combustor and a gas turbine including the jet nozzle. The jet nozzle is formed on an inner surface of a combustor to supply fluid into an interior of a liner of the combustor in a direction intersecting with a progress direction of combustion gases primarily combusted in a combustion chamber in the interior of the liner. The jet nozzle includes a fluid inlet, through which fluid is externally introduced, and a fluid outlet including a first fluid outlet member, through which a portion of the fluid introduced through the fluid inlet is discharged so as to be rotated in one direction, and a second fluid outlet member, through which the rest of the fluid is discharged so as to be rotated in a direction different from the rotation direction of the fluid discharged from the first fluid outlet member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyoung Taek Oh, Sang Pil Jo, Young Gun Go
  • Patent number: 12000588
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle, a fuel nozzle module having the same, and a combustor having the same, which can solve a problem of combustion instability due to a high-frequency resonance generated by fuel containing hydrogen are provided. The fuel nozzle includes a fuel flow path through which a fuel flows, and a plurality of fuel plenums including a plurality of micro-mixers including a mixing flow path through which a fluid in which the fuel and compressed air are mixed flows and a fuel supply hole for supplying the fuel to the mixing flow path, wherein the plurality of fuel plenums are formed in the fuel flow path to be spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Sik Han
  • Patent number: 11988380
    Abstract: An injection nozzle installed in a combustor of a gas turbine to inject fuel and compressed air into a combustion chamber is provided. The injection nozzle includes an inlet portion through which fuel and compressed air are introduced, an outlet portion disposed downstream of the inlet portion in a flow direction of fluid and configured to discharge the fuel and compressed air to the combustion chamber, and an intermediate portion connected obliquely to each of the inlet portion and the outlet portion, wherein the inlet portion and the intermediate portion are symmetrically formed based on an imaginary central line extending from the outlet portion along the flow direction of fluid and passing through a center of the outlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Gun Go, Hyun Soo An
  • Patent number: 11939923
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid fuel injection body capable of further reducing a film thickness of an injected liquid fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nagayoshi Hiromitsu
  • Patent number: 11920791
    Abstract: A trapped vortex reverse flow combustor for a gas turbine includes a first dome structure having a plurality of first-dome vortex driver airflow openings for providing a first vortex generating mid airflow therethrough to a trapped vortex cavity. A second dome structure is arranged downstream of the first dome structure and includes a plurality of second-dome vortex driver airflow openings providing a first vortex generating outer airflow therethrough to the trapped vortex cavity, and a plurality of primary driver airflow openings providing a primary driver airflow therethrough radially inward of the trapped vortex cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Overman
  • Patent number: 11920794
    Abstract: A bundled tube fuel nozzle is provided. The bundled tube fuel nozzle includes a first end wall, a second end wall, an outer band that extends between the first end wall and the second end wall, and an inner band that extends between the first end wall and the second end wall. The inner band is disposed within the outer band. A bellows wall is disposed between the inner band and the outer band. The bellows wall surrounds the inner band such that a first fuel plenum is defined annularly between the inner band and the bellows wall. The inner band defines a second fuel plenum that is in fluid communication with the first fuel plenum via one or more apertures defined in the inner band. A plurality of tubes extends in an axial direction between the first end wall and the second end wall within the second fuel plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Johnie Franklin McConnaughhay
  • Patent number: 11913646
    Abstract: A fuel injector system for a torch igniter includes an injector body centered on an axis, a receiving aperture formed in a cap of the torch igniter, an injector aperture, an air channel, a fuel channel, and a purge passage formed in a housing of the torch igniter and fluidly connected to a cooling air source. The injector body includes an axial wall at a first axial end of the injector body, an outer wall connected to the axial wall and extending along the axis transverse to the first wall, and an inner portion connected to the axial wall and extending along the axis transverse to the axial wall. An outer surface of the inner portion is spaced a distance from an inner surface of the outer wall, forming an insulating space between the outer wall and the inner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Delavan Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ryon, Lev Alexander Prociw
  • Patent number: 11905887
    Abstract: Multi-engine aircraft power and propulsion systems and methods of restarting an engine of a multi-engine aircraft during fight are provided. One such method comprises: determining a condition to the effect that a flame in the combustion equipment of the second gas turbine engine has been extinguished; responsive to the determination, supplying electrical power from the electrical energy storage system to one or more of the electric machines of the second gas turbine engine and operating said one or more electric machines as motors to limit a reduction in a speed of the one or more spools of the second gas turbine engine following extinguishment of the flame in its combustion equipment; and restarting the second gas turbine engine by relighting the combustion equipment of the second gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Gareth E Moore, Paul R Davies, Stephen M Husband, David R Trainer, David P Scothern, Luke George, Douglas M M Herbert
  • Patent number: 11906165
    Abstract: An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. The fuel nozzle can include both a primary and secondary fuel passage, and an additional air passage to provide for greater flame control, fuel provision, or local fuel and air mixing prior to combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael T. Bucaro, Ajoy Patra, Pradeep Naik, Perumallu Vukanti, R Narasimha Chiranthan, Clayton S. Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Steven C. Vise, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Krishnakumar Venkatesan
  • Patent number: 11898754
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle using fuel containing hydrogen, a combustor and gas turbine including the same are provided. The nozzle for a combustor configured to burn fuel containing hydrogen includes a fuel supply duct including a plurality of injection tubes through which air and fuel flow and a fuel passage through which fuel flows, a plurality of swirlers formed on a side surface of each of the plurality of injection tubes to guide air outside the injection tube to be introduced thereinto for swirling, and a plurality of fuel inlet holes formed radially through the injection tube to communicate with the fuel passage and allow fuel to flow through the fuel passage to the injection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 11885496
    Abstract: A fluid nozzle includes a first fluid circuit, a second fluid circuit spaced apart from the first fluid circuit and a fuel circuit. The fuel circuit is defined between the first and second fluid circuits and between a first fuel circuit wall and a second fuel circuit wall. A ring-shaped permeable barrier is positioned between the first and second fuel circuit walls configured and adapted to provide a controlled resistance to fuel flow. A fuel distributor includes a first fuel circuit wall and a second fuel circuit wall spaced apart from the first fuel circuit wall. A fuel circuit is defined between the first and second fuel circuit walls. A ring-shaped permeable barrier is positioned between first and second fuel circuit walls. A combustion assembly includes a combustor housing, a combustor dome positioned at an upstream end of the combustor housing, and a fluid nozzle positioned adjacent the combustor dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Lev A. Prociw, Jason Ryon, Philip E. O. Buelow
  • Patent number: 11873993
    Abstract: A combustor includes a liner defining a combustion chamber. An air and fuel mixing body is received within the liner and upstream of the combustion chamber. The mixing body has a center axis and includes a bluff-body. A plurality of fuel injection ports on the bluff-body communicate with a central fuel supply such that fuel passes from the fuel supply passage and into a mixing chamber with a component in an axially downstream direction and a radially outward direction relative to said central axis. A plurality of inner air swirlers provide air into the mixing chamber with a component in an axially downstream direction, a radially outward direction, and with a circumferential component due to swirler structure. The fuel injection ports are downstream of an outlet of the inner air swirlers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Alain Athanase Fossi