F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 02 – C
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
02
C
F02C 9/48 (2006.01) F23D 14/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2093712
A lean burn gas turbine combustor has a premixer zone receiving compressor discharge air through openings in a combustor liner. A fuel nozzle has an upstream orifice 52, a downstream orifice 56, and a captured response volume 54 therebetween. Upstream orifice 52 affords a high pressure drop for gaseous fuel to approximately the pressure of the compressor discharge air. The low pressure discharge orifice affords a pressure drop comparable to the pressure drop across the openings of the combustor liner for the air supply. The dynamic pressure response characteristics of the fuel and air inlets to the premixer zone are substantially matched to eliminate variations in fuel/air concentration resulting from pressure variations in the premixer zone. The captured response volume between the upstream and downstream orifices is sized sufficiently to store enough fuel to accommodate the mismatch in phase angle of fuel flowing into the captured response volume through the upstream orifice at a first phase angle relative to the phase angle of a pressure forcing function in the premixer zone and fuel flowing out of the captured response volume through the downstream fuel discharge orifice at a second phase angle relative to the phase angle of the pressure forcing function.
Black Stephen H.
Company General Electric
Craig Wilson And Company
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