Unitary Injector Having Plural Fuel Flow Paths Patents (Class 60/742)
  • Patent number: 8015813
    Abstract: A fuel injector for injecting fuel into a turbomachine combustion chamber, the injector presenting an injector nose for connection to an injection system fastened to the end wall of said combustion chamber, the injector nose comprising: a first channel for passing a flow of an air/fuel pre-mixture towards the combustion chamber, the first channel opening out into the center of the injector nose via an outlet opening for the air/fuel pre-mixture; an electrical insulator surrounding said outlet opening for the air/fuel pre-mixture; a plasma generator system disposed inside said electrical insulation and downstream from said outlet opening for the air/fuel pre-mixture in order to control ignition and combustion of the air/fuel pre-mixture; a second channel for passing a flow of fuel towards the combustion chamber, the second channel opening out outside said electrical insulation; and a third channel for passing a flow of fuel towards the combustion chamber, this third channel opening out outside the second ch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Michel Pierre Cazalens, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel
  • Patent number: 8001786
    Abstract: A combustor of gas turbine engine, including: a fuel spray portion that sprays fuel to create a diffusion combustion region in a combustion chamber, the fuel spray portion including a fuel atomizing portion that atomizes the fuel, and a diffusion passage portion disposed downstream of the fuel atomizing portion, the diffusion passage portion having a spreading trumpet-like shape and diffuses the fuel and the air; a pre-mixture supply portion that supplies a pre-mixture gas including the fuel and air to create a pre-mixture combustion region in the combustion chamber, the pre-mixture supply portion being positioned concentrically with the fuel spray portion to surround the fuel spray portion; and a fuel diffusion restraining member disposed on an inner circumferential face of the diffusion passage portion for restraining a diffusion of injected fuel by separating a stream of the injected fuel away from the inner circumferential face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Atsushi Horikawa, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20110173983
    Abstract: A nozzle for gas turbine includes a tubular nozzle body; and a plurality of hollow fuel injection pegs extending radially from the tubular nozzle body at a location between forward and aft ends of the tubular nozzle body; wherein each of the plurality of hollow fuel injection pegs has an external tear-drop cross-sectional shape, and a fuel passage in each of the hollow injection pegs has a substantially matching internal tear-drop cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark William PINSON, Jason Thurman STEWART, Jagadish Kumar PERINGAT, Gregory Earl JENSEN, Jason Patrick TUMA
  • Publication number: 20110154829
    Abstract: A combustor with a burner maintains combustion stability. The burner includes an air hole member 31 with a plurality of air holes 34, 35 provided at an upstream side of the combustion gases generated by a combustion chamber 1. A first fueling nozzle 33 jets fuel in a direction crossing a central axis of the burner towards at least two of air holes 35. A plurality of second fueling nozzles 32, one for each of the remaining air holes 34, are provided to jet the fuel in a direction routed along the burner axis towards the corresponding air hole 34. A fuel header 30 distributes the fuel to the first fueling nozzle 33 and each of the second fueling nozzles 32. A fuel header storage unit 70 shrouds the fuel header 30, fueling nozzles 32, 33, and has an air inflow hole 71.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke HAYASHI, Shohei YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 7966820
    Abstract: A nozzle for channeling a fluid into a combustor assembly. The nozzle includes a body including a centerline, a first passageway extending through the body along the centerline, and a nozzle tip coupled to a downstream end of the first passageway. The nozzle tip has a radius extending from a center of the nozzle tip to an outer surface of the nozzle tip. The nozzle tip includes a downstream face, and a plurality of outlet passageways that each include an opening defined in the downstream face. Each opening includes respective X-, Y-, and Z-axes defined with respect to a tangent line, the radius, and the centerline. Each of the plurality of outlet passageways is at discharge angle of greater than 30° measured with respect to the respective Z-axis in a respective X-Z plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Carey Edward Romoser
  • Patent number: 7963764
    Abstract: A lance for a hybrid burner of a combustor of a gas turbine, includes an inner passage for a liquid fuel, an outer passage coaxially enclosing the inner passage for a gaseous fuel, a plurality of star like arranged outer nozzles branching off radially from the outer passage, a plurality of inner nozzles, which branch off radially from the inner passage and which each extend coaxially inside one of the outer nozzles, and a distributor section, which is arranged upstream of the outer nozzles in the outer passage and has a plurality of star like arranged, coaxially extending through-openings for the gaseous fuel. In order to reduce the flow resistance in the gas path of the lance, the through-openings each have an opening width which is larger in the circumferential direction than in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Andreas Brautsch, Hanspeter Hardegger, Daniel Burri, Bettina Paikert
  • Publication number: 20110138815
    Abstract: A swirler for mixing fuel and air is provided. The swirler includes a plurality of vanes arranged on a reference circle diameter which, together with a first longitudinal end face of the vanes disposed on a first wall and a second wall disposed on an opposing second longitudinal end face of the vanes, form a flow channel. In this arrangement at least one injection orifice in the first wall and at least one further injection orifice in the second wall open into a flow channel. The arrangement of the at least two mutually opposing injection orifices in the wall of the swirler makes for a homogeneous distribution of the fuel in the flow channel and ensures a uniform mixing of the air with the fuel. This results in uniform and low-NOx combustion of the fuel/air mixture in a burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Paul Headland
  • Publication number: 20110131998
    Abstract: In a conventional secondary fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustion system, secondary air enters and flows around pegs to mix with fuel injected through holes in pegs. Because the pegs are in the air flow area, undesirable pressure drops occur adversely affecting turbine's efficiency and leading to higher emissions. A novel secondary fuel nozzle is provided in which fuel is injected upstream of the secondary air entry location, which allows the pegs to be removed from the flow area. An example secondary fuel nozzle includes a nozzle body delivering fuel, a nozzle housing surrounding the nozzle body and defining air passages for the secondary air to enter and flow toward an end of the nozzle body, and a premix fuel unit positioned upstream of the air passages injecting fuel delivered by the nozzle body into the secondary air for premixing prior to combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Vaibhav NADKARNI, Manish Kumar, Abdul Rafey Khan
  • Publication number: 20110126543
    Abstract: A combustor module for a gas turbine engine is provided that includes a first annular liner assembly extending along a longitudinal axis of the engine. The first annular liner assembly includes a first annular support shell and a plurality of first heat shield panels coupled to the first annular support shell. The first heat shield panels form a segmented ring defining a plurality of first axial seams therebetween. The combustor module further includes a bulkhead coupled to the first annular liner assembly. The bulkhead provides a plurality of fuel nozzles for passing a first mass flow comprising fuel and air. The combustor module further includes a second annular liner assembly coupled to the bulkhead. The second annular liner assembly is in spaced-apart generally coaxial relationship from the first annular liner assembly by a channel height H. The second annular liner assembly includes an air admittance hole having a mean diameter D extending along a hole axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Kirsopp, Aaron J. Dornback, James B. Hoke
  • Patent number: 7941923
    Abstract: A secondary fuel nozzle is formed by brazing and welding a central core, a cylindrical body, and a unitary secondary fuel nozzle portion. The central core has a central bore for receiving a liquid fuel cartridge, and at least two passages concentric with the central bore. The secondary fuel nozzle portion includes a base flange and a main shaft having a central bore for aligning with the central bore of the core and for receiving the liquid fuel cartridge, and a plurality of peripheral bores disposed at spaced locations about the central bore for flow communication with the concentric passages of the core. The core is brazed to the base flange and the cylindrical body is disposed around the core and welded to the base flange to define a one-piece secondary fuel nozzle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: William Kirk Hessler
  • Patent number: 7934381
    Abstract: A fuel lance for a gas turbine installation with sequential combustion, in which hot gas is produced in a first combustion chamber and expanded in a subsequent turbine, and then flows through a subsequent second combustion chamber in which the fuel lance for injecting fuel into the hot gas is arranged. The fuel lance has a lance section which extends in the flow direction of the hot gas and includes at least an outer tube which is arranged concentrically to a lance axis, and a center tube which is concentrically arranged in the outer tube and in which the fuel is guided to the lance tip and is injected through first injection openings in the region of the lance tip into the hot gas. The fuel lance is modified for operation with syngas by the first injection openings being arranged directly on the lance tip, and by the first injection openings being oriented so that the fuel jets which emerge from them include an acute angle with the lance axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Felix Guethe, Urs Benz
  • Publication number: 20110094233
    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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kashihara, Yasushi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7926282
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine includes an outer air path having a converging exit portion, and a fuel path inboard of the outer air path. An inner air path inboard of the fuel path includes an outer wall having a converging exit region and surrounds an axial core duct defining an axial air path having a diverging exit region. The inner air path creates a pressure drop near a fuel injection opening to promote mixing and atomization of fuel over a range of power levels, including low power operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Gary W. Chew, Viraphand Cholvibul
  • Patent number: 7926744
    Abstract: An air-blast fuel injector is disclosed which includes an outer air circuit having an exit portion, an inner air circuit having an outlet configured to direct air toward the exit portion of the outer air circuit, and a fuel circuit radially outboard of the inner air circuit and having an exit communicating with the outer air circuit upstream from the exit portion of the outer air circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Neal A. Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
  • Patent number: 7926279
    Abstract: A gas sleeve (120) for a combustor (408) of gas turbine engine (400) attaches to a support housing (100) of the combustor (408) to convey a fuel gas and to fit within a fuel rocket (110). The gas sleeve (120) comprises a plurality of apertures (128) formed to provide impingement cooling. The apertures (128) comprise a tilt angle directed toward a structure in need of impingement cooling, for instance a weld joint (114) that attaches the fuel rocket (110) to the support housing (100). The apertures (128) additionally may comprise a rotational angle effective to create a rotationally swirling flow of the portion of fuel gas that passes through the apertures (128). A method of operation using this structure also is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Samer P. Wasif, Robert J. Bland
  • Publication number: 20110083439
    Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle includes a body member having an upstream wall opposing a downstream wall, and an internal wall disposed between the upstream wall and the downstream wall, a first chamber partially defined by the an inner surface of the upstream wall and a surface of the internal wall, a second chamber partially defined by an inner surface of the downstream wall and a surface of the internal wall a first gas inlet communicative with the first chamber operative to emit a first gas into the first chamber, a second gas inlet communicative with the second chamber operative to emit a second gas into the second chamber, and a plurality of mixing tubes, each of the mixing tubes having a tube inner surface, a tube outer surface, a first inlet communicative with an aperture in the upstream wall operative to receive a third gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Abdul Rafey Khan, William David York, Willy Steve Ziminsky
  • Patent number: 7921650
    Abstract: A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is disposed so as to surround the first fuel spraying section. The apparatus further includes an air curtain generating section disposed between the first fuel spraying section and the second fuel spraying section. The air curtain generating section is configured to generate an air curtain which defines an outer edge of a diffusion combustion area in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20110072823
    Abstract: An example gas turbine engine fuel injector nozzle assembly includes a nozzle tip secured relative to a combustion area within a gas turbine engine. The nozzle establishes a plurality of first apertures that are configured to communicate a fuel to the combustion area. The nozzle establishes at least one second aperture that is configured to communicate a fluid to the combustion area. The fluid is different than the fuel. An example method of providing fuel to a combustion area within a gas turbine engine includes communicating a fuel through a first aperture in a nozzle tip to a combustion area in a gas turbine engine. The nozzle tip establishes an axis. The method also includes influencing fuel moving from the nozzle tip using a fluid directed through a second aperture in the nozzle tip. The fluid is different than the fuel. A portion of the second aperture is radially closer to the axis than the first aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Daih-Yeou Chen, Xiaolan Hu
  • Publication number: 20110067403
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes a nozzle body defining a central axis and having a main fuel circuit. An air circuit is formed within the nozzle body inboard of the main fuel circuit. A primary pilot fuel circuit is formed within the nozzle body inboard of the air circuit. A secondary pilot fuel circuit is formed within the nozzle body inboard of the air circuit and outboard of the primary pilot fuel circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Brandon P. Williams, Jeremy T. Rhyan
  • Publication number: 20110067379
    Abstract: A dual fuel combustor nozzle includes a body member including a first end portion that extends to a second end portion through an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion includes an outer wall portion and an inner wall portion with the inner wall portion defining a first fuel plenum. The dual fuel nozzle also includes an inner nozzle member arranged within the first fuel plenum. The inner nozzle member includes a first end section that extends to a second end section through an intermediate section. The intermediate section defines a second fuel plenum. The second end section being spaced from the second end portion of the body member so as to define a pre-emergence zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Abdul Rafey Khan, Christian Xavier Stevenson, Baifang Zuo
  • Patent number: 7908864
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle is provided. The combustor nozzle includes a first fuel system configured to introduce a syngas fuel into a combustion chamber to enable lean premixed combustion within the combustion chamber and a second fuel system configured to introduce the syngas fuel, or a hydrocarbon fuel, or diluents, or combinations thereof into the combustion chamber to enable diffusion combustion within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joel Meier Haynes, David Matthew Mosbacher, Jonathan Sebastian Janssen, Venkatraman Ananthakrishnan Iyer
  • Publication number: 20110061389
    Abstract: The present application thus provides a combustor. The combustor may include an interior flow path therethrough, a number of nozzles in communication with the interior flow path, and an inlet guide vane system positioned about the interior flow path to create a swirled flow therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Derrick Simons, William York, Willy S. Ziminsky
  • Publication number: 20110048022
    Abstract: A combustor minimizes combustion emissions at a lower level of combustion dynamics during combustor even fuel-split conditions by varying the fuel impedance through geometrical changes or inert addition in various nozzle groups than that achievable during combustor even fuel-split conditions with a multi-fuel nozzle combustor using a nozzle fuel impedance that is common to all nozzles while emitting substantially the same level of combustion emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kapil Kumar Singh, Fei Han, Shiva Srinivasan, Kwanwoo Kim, Preetham Balasubramanyam, Qingguo Zhang
  • Patent number: 7891193
    Abstract: In a multimode fuel injector for combustion chambers, in particular a jet engine, a secondary circuit is connected to a distribution chamber perforated by a plurality of fuel ejection orifices and the primary circuit comprises at least one passage section adjacent the distribution chamber, for its cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel
  • Patent number: 7886991
    Abstract: An injection nozzle having a main body portion with an outer peripheral wall is disclosed. The nozzle includes a plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes disposed within the main body portion and a fuel flow passage fluidly connected to the plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes. Fuel and air are partially premixed inside the plurality of the tubes. A second body portion, having an outer peripheral wall extending between a first end and an opposite second end, is connected to the main body portion. The partially premixed fuel and air mixture from the first body portion gets further mixed inside the second body portion. The second body portion converges from the first end toward said second end. The second body portion also includes cooling passages that extend along all the walls around the second body to provide thermal damage resistance for occasional flame flash back into the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Thomas Edward Johnson, Benjamin Paul Lacy, Willy Steve Ziminsky
  • Publication number: 20110030375
    Abstract: A combustor system includes a pylon fuel injection system coupled to a combustion chamber and configured to inject fuel to the combustion chamber. The pylon fuel injection system includes a plurality of radial elements, each radial element having a plurality of first Coanda type fuel injection slots. A plurality of transverse elements are provided to each radial element. Each transverse element includes a plurality of second Coanda type fuel injection slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Ronald Scott Bunker
  • Patent number: 7861529
    Abstract: An injection device for injecting a mixture of air and fuel into a combustion chamber of a turbomachine is disclosed. The injection device includes two fuel circuits and a Venturi which improves the carburation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrice Andre Commaret, Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis
  • Patent number: 7854121
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a first fuel introduction location, a second fuel introduction location, and fuel passages. The first fuel introduction location is located radially about the fuel nozzle and is connected with a fuel passage. The second fuel introduction location is located at an end of the fuel nozzle and is connected with another fuel passage such that the fuel passage connected to the first fuel introduction location is separate from the fuel passage connected to the second fuel introduction location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Daniel D. Vandale, Derrick Simons, Alberto Jose Negroni, Carey Romoser
  • Patent number: 7849693
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine combustion chamber is disclosed. The fuel injector includes a first fuel supply line for running at idle speed, a second, main, fuel supply line for running at speeds up to full throttle, and first and second injection orifices with which the two fuel supply lines respectively communicate. The injection orifices are arranged in a ring and the first orifices occupy a sector of the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Francois Rene Daniel Bainville, Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis, Stephane Henri Guy Touchaud
  • Publication number: 20100300104
    Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Mark F. Rubio, Udo Schmitz, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz
  • Publication number: 20100293955
    Abstract: A system comprising a fuel nozzle. The fuel nozzle includes a mounting base and an inlet flow conditioner extending directly from the mounting base in a downstream direction. Moreover, the inlet flow conditioner structurally supports the fuel nozzle without a central support member extending directly from the mounting base inside the inlet flow conditioner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, Kevin Weston McMahan, Carl Robert Barker
  • Publication number: 20100269506
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel spray apparatus for a gas turbine engine, including: a pilot part configured to spray a fuel to be used for a diffusion combustion; a main part provided so as to surround the pilot part and configured to inject a pre-mixed gas only upon a high power operation; and a shield body constituting a purge air passage which is configured to take therein an air flowed on an upstream side relative to a fuel injection port of the main part as a purge air, and to blow off a fuel dripping from the fuel injection port toward a main air passage of the main part. The purge air passage is provided in a position opposite to a main fuel passage communicated with the fuel injection port across the shield body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nonaka, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20100263382
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel nozzle assembly has concentric primary and secondary pilot fuel nozzles with circular primary and annular secondary exits respectively and a main fuel nozzle spaced radially outwardly of the pilot fuel nozzles. The primary and secondary pilot fuel nozzles include conical primary and secondary exit holes respectively. The secondary pilot fuel nozzle is located directly adjacent to and surrounding the primary pilot fuel nozzle. Alternatively the secondary pilot fuel nozzle may be radially spaced apart from the primary pilot fuel nozzle. A fuel injector having a hollow stem may be used to support the fuel nozzle assembly. A first pilot swirler may be located radially outwardly of and adjacent to the dual orifice pilot fuel injector tip, a second pilot swirler located radially outwardly of the first swirler, and a splitter radially positioned between the first and second pilot swirlers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Alfred Albert Mancini, Michael Anthony Benjamin, George Chia-Chun Hsiao, Claude Henry Chauvette
  • Publication number: 20100236247
    Abstract: A nozzle has combustion air passages extending from a first, upstream end to a second, downstream end. A fuel distribution manifold is associated with the first, upstream end of the nozzle. Combustion air passages correspond to, and align with the air passages in the nozzle. Fuel distribution grooves are formed in one end of the fuel distribution manifold disk and extend from a central opening to the air passages. A fuel circuit cover closes the fuel distribution grooves to define fuel passages that extend from the central opening to the combustion air passages. A fuel supply conduit communicates with the central opening and the fuel passages for delivery of fuel to the combustion air in the air passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Lewis Berkley Davis, JR., Thomas Edward Johnson, Jason Thurman Stewart
  • Publication number: 20100218501
    Abstract: A fuel/air mixing disk for use in a fuel/air mixing combustor assembly is provided. The disk includes a first face, a second face, and at least one fuel plenum disposed therebetween. A plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes extend through the pre-mixing disk, each mixing tube including an outer tube wall extending axially along a tube axis and in fluid communication with the at least one fuel plenum. At least a portion of the plurality of fuel/air mixing tubes further includes at least one fuel injection hole have a fuel injection hole diameter extending through said outer tube wall, the fuel injection hole having an injection angle relative to the tube axis. The invention provides good fuel air mixing with low combustion generated NOx and low flow pressure loss translating to a high gas turbine efficiency, that is durable, and resistant to flame holding and flash back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William David York, Willy Steve Ziminsky, Thomas Edward Johnson, Benjamin Lacy, Baifang Zuo, Jong Ho Uhm
  • Publication number: 20100220182
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an engine that includes a combustion chamber and a viewing port into the combustion chamber. The engine also includes a camera configured to obtain an image of a flame in the combustion chamber through the viewing port and a controller configured to adjust a parameter of the engine based on the image of the flame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Anthony Krull, David Leach, Gilbert Kraemer, Geoffrey Myers, Alexey Vert, Garth Frederick, Samer Aljabari
  • Patent number: 7779636
    Abstract: A lean direct injection fuel nozzle for a gas turbine is disclosed which includes a radially outer main fuel delivery system including a main inner air swirler defined in part by a main inner air passage having a radially inner wall with a diverging downstream surface, an intermediate air swirler radially inward of the main inner air swirler for providing a cooling air flow along the downstream surface of the radially inner wall of the main inner air passage, and a radially inner pilot fuel delivery system radially inward of the intermediate air swirler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Delavan Inc
    Inventors: Philip E. O. Buelow, Brandon P. Williams, David H. Bretz, Michael Spooner, Caroline Mohamed, Helen Gill
  • Publication number: 20100199675
    Abstract: An injector includes a surface and an injector hole formed in the surface. The injector also includes a groove formed in the surface, the groove surrounding the injector hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Constantin Dinu, Mahesh Bathina, Ramanand Singh
  • Publication number: 20100192582
    Abstract: A secondary nozzle is provided for a gas turbine. The secondary nozzle includes a flange and an elongated nozzle body extending from the flange. At least one premix fuel injector is spaced radially from the nozzle body and extends from the flange generally parallel to the nozzle body. At least one second nozzle tube is fluidly connected to the fuel source and spaced radially outward from the first nozzle tube with a proximal end fixed to the flange. The second nozzle tube has a distal end, spaced from the proximal end, with at least one aperture therein. A passageway extends between the proximal end and the distal end of the second nozzle tube, with the passageway fluidly connecting to the fuel source and the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Bland, John Battaglioli
  • Publication number: 20100192586
    Abstract: An object is to provide a low cost gas turbine combustor. The gas turbine combustor comprises main nozzles (3) each having a cylindrical central tube (4) using an interior thereof as an oil fuel path (6) through which oil fuel flows, a cylindrical outer tube (5) disposed on an outermost periphery of the main nozzle (3), and a support tube (8) disposed between the central tube (4) and the outer tube (5), the central tube (4), the outer tube (5) and the support tube (8) each being formed independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Terada, Tetsu Konishi, Katsuyoshi Omae
  • Publication number: 20100192585
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly (10) comprising a first inlet tube (14), a second inlet tube (15), and a nozzle (16). The nozzle (16) is formed from a stack of plates (20-38) which are joined together in face-to-face contact. The plates (20-38) collectively have openings which define a nozzle outlet, a first inlet, a second inlet, a first circuit from the first inlet to the nozzle outlet, a second circuit from the second inlet to the nozzle outlet, and a fluid-outlet chamber through which both the first circuit and the second circuit pass. The nozzle assembly (10) can be used as a fuel injector for a gas turbine engine, with jet fuel being supplied to the first circuit during start-up and low power conditions and jet fuel being supplied to both the first circuit and the second circuit during high power conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Robert R. Pelletier, James R. Pavlik
  • Publication number: 20100192580
    Abstract: A combustor includes a burner tube that receives fuel for combustion from a fuel delivery system. An axial swirler is installed in the burner tube. The burner tube is flared downstream of the swirler. The structure provides for improved combustion stability while extending lean blowout and low frequency dynamics margins, which in turn serve to further reduce NOx emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Derrick Walter Simons, Leonid Zvedenuk, Sergey Anatolievich Meshkov, Valery Mitrofanov
  • Publication number: 20100192581
    Abstract: A fuel/air mixing tube for use in a fuel/air mixing tube bundle is provided. The fuel/air mixing tube includes an outer tube wall extending axially along a tube axis between an inlet end and an exit end, the outer tube wall having a thickness extending between an inner tube surface having a inner diameter and an outer tube surface having an outer tube diameter. The tube further includes at least one fuel injection hole having a fuel injection hole diameter extending through the outer tube wall, the fuel injection hole having an injection angle relative to the tube axis. The invention provides good fuel air mixing with low combustion generated NOx and low flow pressure loss translating to a high gas turbine efficiency, that is durable, and resistant to flame holding and flash back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: General Electricity Company
    Inventors: Willy Steve Ziminsky, Thomas Edward Johnson, Benjamin Paul Lacy, William David York, Jong Ho Uhm, Baifang Zuo
  • Patent number: 7762073
    Abstract: A mixer assembly for use in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a pilot mixer, a main mixer, and a fuel manifold. The pilot mixer includes: an annular pilot housing having a hollow interior, a primary fuel injector mounted in the pilot housing, a plurality of axial swirlers positioned upstream from the primary fuel injector, and a plurality of secondary fuel injection ports for introducing fuel into the hollow interior of the pilot housing. The main mixer includes: a main housing surrounding the pilot housing and defining an annular cavity, a plurality of fuel injection ports, and at least one swirler positioned upstream from the plurality of fuel injection ports. The fuel manifold is in flow communication with the plurality of secondary fuel injection ports in the pilot mixer and the plurality of fuel injection ports in the main mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Shui-Chi Li, Shih-Yang Hsieh, George Chia-Chun Hsiao, Hukam Chand Mongia
  • Patent number: 7762071
    Abstract: An injection device including at least one injection plate adjacent a combustion space of a combustion chamber, and at least one first injection nozzle including a first entry bore having a first discharge into the combustion chamber, and a first orifice bore, having a cross-sectional dimension less than or equal to the first entry bore, coaxially arranged with the first entry bore and remote from the first discharge. At least one second injection nozzle includes a second entry bore having a second discharge into the combustion chamber, and a second orifice bore, having a cross-sectional dimension less than or equal to the second entry bore, coaxially arranged with the second entry bore and remote from the second discharge. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: EADS Space Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Gotzig, Dieter May
  • Publication number: 20100170252
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided and includes a combustor having a first interior in which a first fuel is combustible, the first fuel including natural gas and/or a blend of natural gas and alternate gas receivable by a fuel circuit from an external source, a turbine, a transition zone, including a second interior in which a second fuel, the second fuel including an unblended supply of the alternate gas receivable by the fuel circuit from the external source, and the products of the combustion of the first fuel are combustible, and a plurality of fuel injectors, which are structurally supported by the transition zone and coupled to the fuel circuit, and which are configured to supply the second fuel to the second interior in any one of a single axial stage, multiple axial stages, a single axial circumferential stage and multiple axial circumferential stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Venkataraman, Jason Charles Terry
  • Publication number: 20100170253
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a turbine system, may include a fuel nozzle, that includes a plurality of fuel passages and a plurality of air passages offset in a downstream direction from the fuel passages. In the embodiment, an air flow from the air passages is configured to intersect with a fuel flow from the fuel passages at an angle to induce swirl and mixing of the air flow and the fuel flow downstream of the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Dwight Berry, James T. Brown, Hasan Karim, Girard A. Simons
  • Publication number: 20100162711
    Abstract: The primary nozzles of a Dry Low NOx (DLN) combustor are configured to alternatively burn a first gas fuel or a second gas fuel, where the two gas fuels may have widely disparate energy content. Natural gas may be the first gas fuel and syngas may be the second gas fuel. An inner fuel circuit and an outer fuel circuit are provided to allow effective control of fuel/air mixing profiles, dynamics, primary pre-ignition and emission control by changing the fuel split between the two fuel circuits. The inner fuel circuit may be run in a diffusion combustion mode on many gas fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Willy S. Ziminsky, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, Abdul Rafey Khan, Christian X. Stevenson, Chunyang Wu
  • Patent number: 7726133
    Abstract: A method is for operating a burner of a gas turbine. A fossil fuel is gasified and the gasified fossil fuel is fed as synthesis gas into the burner for combustion. The burner is connected to the gas turbine. The synthesis gas is divided into a first partial current and a second partial current and the partial currents are each fed into the burner for combustion. A power plant, particularly a gas and steam turbine system, includes a gasification device for a fossil fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Michael Huth, Berthold Köstlin
  • Publication number: 20100126175
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel injection system, including: a fuel injection module including a primary fuel injector and one or more secondary fuel injectors disposed around the primary fuel injector; an air supply module for supplying air to the fuel injection module inwardly and outwardly; and a fuel supply module for supplying fuel to the fuel injection module, wherein the fuel injection module serves to generate multistage flames in a burner by forming a rich fuel flame region using the primary fuel injector and forming a lean fuel flame region behind the rich fuel flame region using the secondary fuel injectors through a burning process of gasifying secondary fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTIRAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Se Won KIM, Myung Chul Shin, Chang Yeop Lee