Burner tube and method for mixing air and gas in a gas turbine engine
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United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
F02C-007/22
F02C-007/26
출원번호
US-0862427
(2004-06-08)
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/ 주소
Johnson,Thomas Edward
Widener,Stanley Kevin
McMahan,Kevin Weston
출원인 / 주소
General Electric Company
대리인 / 주소
Nixon &
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122인용 특허 :
33
초록
A hybrid structure that combines characteristics of the DACRS and Swozzle burners to provide the high mixing ability of an axial flowing counter rotating vane swirler with good dynamic flame stability characteristics of a bluff center body.
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What is claimed is: 1. A burner for use in a combustion system of an industrial gas turbine, the burner comprising: an outer peripheral wall; a burner center body coaxially disposed within said outer wall; a fuel/air premixer including an air inlet, at least one fuel inlet, and a splitter ring, the
What is claimed is: 1. A burner for use in a combustion system of an industrial gas turbine, the burner comprising: an outer peripheral wall; a burner center body coaxially disposed within said outer wall; a fuel/air premixer including an air inlet, at least one fuel inlet, and a splitter ring, the splitter ring defining a first, radially inner passage, with respect to the axis of the center body, with the center body and a second, radially outer passage with the outer wall, the first and second passages each having air flow turning vanes which impart swirl to the combustion air passing through the premixer, said vanes connected respectively to said center body and said splitter ring and to said splitter ring and said outer wall; and a gas fuel flow passage defined within said center body and extending at least part circumferentially thereof, for conducting gas fuel to said fuel/air premixer. 2. A burner according to claim 1, wherein at least some vanes of said radially inner passage comprise an internal fuel flow passage, the gas fuel flow passage introducing fuel into said internal fuel flow passages. 3. A burner according to claim 2, wherein said at least one fuel inlet comprises a plurality of fuel metering holes communicating with the internal fuel flow passages. 4. A burner according to claim 2, wherein there are a plurality of fuel inlets, at least some of which are defined in said vanes having fuel flow passages. 5. A burner according to claim 2, wherein said splitter ring defines a hollow interior fuel cavity and wherein said at least fuel inlet is defined in said splitter ring, in communication with said hollow cavity. 6. A burner according to claim 1, wherein the trailing edge of the splitter ring is aerodynamically curved to minimize a wake or aerodynamic separation area behind the ring. 7. A burner according to claim 1, further comprising an annular mixing passage downstream of the turning vanes, defined between said outer wall and said center body. 8. A burner according to claim 1, wherein said outer wall extends generally in parallel to said center body. 9. A burner according to claim 7, wherein said outer wall extends generally in parallel to said center body and in parallel to said axis of said center body, so that said mixing passage has a substantially constant inner and outer diameter along the length of the center body. 10. A burner according to claim 1, wherein a downstream end of said center body provides a bluff body to which the flame anchors. 11. A burner according to claim 1, wherein the outer passage swirl direction is counter-rotating relative to the inner passage swirl direction. 12. A burner for use in a combustion system of an industrial gas turbine, the burner comprising: an outer peripheral wall; a burner center body coaxially disposed within said outer wall; a fuel/air premixer including an air inlet, at least one fuel inlet, and a splitter ring, the splitter ring defining a first, radially inner passage, with respect to the axis of the center body, with the center body and a second, radially outer passage with the outer wall, the first and second passages each having air flow turning vanes which impart swirl to the combustion air passing through the premixer, said vanes connected respectively to said center body and said splitter ring and to said splitter ring and said outer wall; an annular mixing passage defined between said outer wall and said center body, downstream of the turning vanes, said outer wall extending generally in parallel to said center body and in parallel to said axis of said center body, so that said mixing passage has a substantially constant inner and outer diameter along the length of the center body. 13. A burner according to claim 12, wherein a downstream end of said center body provides a bluff body to which the flame anchors. 14. A burner according to claim 12, wherein at least some vanes of said radially inner passage comprise an internal fuel flow passage, the fuel inlet introducing fuel into said internal fuel flow passages. 15. A burner according to claim 14, wherein said at least one fuel inlet comprises a plurality of fuel metering holes communicating with the internal fuel flow passages. 16. A burner according to claim 14, wherein there are a plurality of fuel inlets, at least some of which are defined in said vanes having fuel flow passages. 17. A burner according to claim 12, wherein said splitter ring defines a hollow interior fuel cavity and wherein said at least fuel inlet is defined in said splitter ring, in communication with said hollow cavity. 18. A burner according to claim 12, wherein the trailing edge of the splitter ring is aerodynamically curved to minimize a wake or aerodynamic separation area behind the ring. 19. A burner according to claim 12, wherein the outer passage swirl direction is counter-rotating relative to the inner passage swirl direction. 20. A method of premixing fuel and air in a burner for a combustion system of a gas turbine, the burner including an outer peripheral wall; a burner center body coaxially disposed within said outer wall; a fuel/air premixer including an air inlet, at least one fuel inlet, and a splitter ring, the splitter ring defining a first, radially inner passage, with respect to the axis of the center body, with the center body and a second, radially outer passage with the outer wall, the first and second passages each having air flow turning vanes which impart swirl to the combustion air passing through the premixer, said vanes connected respectively to said center body and said splitter ring and to said splitter ring and said outer wall, at least some of said vanes comprising an internal fuel flow passage, the fuel inlet introducing fuel into said internal fuel flow passages; and a gas fuel flow passage defined within said center body and extending at least part circumferentially thereof, for conducting gas fuel to said fuel/air premixer; the method comprising: (a) controlling a radial and circumferential distribution of incoming air upstream of the fuel inlet; (b) flowing said incoming air into said first and second passages of said swirler assembly; (b) imparting swirl to the incoming air with said turning vanes; and (c) mixing fuel and air into a uniform mixture downstream of said turning vanes, for injection into a combustor reaction zone of the burner. 21. A method according to claim 20, wherein the outer passage swirl direction is counter-rotating relative to the inner passage swirl direction. 22. A burner according to claim 12, wherein said at least one fuel inlet comprises a plurality of fuel metering holes for directing fuel in a direction substantially perpendicular to an air flow direction through the premixer.
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