IP Library Granted Patent US 6,880,340
Granted Patent B2
US 6,880,340 · App. 10/343,743 · Granted Apr 19, 2005

Combustor with turbulence producing device

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Patent No.
US 6,880,340
App. No.
10/343,743
Granted
Apr 19, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a gas turbine combustor comprising an air passage to supply air to the inside; and a fuel nozzle which is provided with an injection port to inject fuel and disposed in the air passage, wherein a turbulence producing means adjacent to the injection port of the fuel nozzle is provided in the air passage. Further, the present invention relates to a gas turbine combustor comprising an air passage to supply air to the inside; and a fuel nozzle which is provided with an injection port to inject fuel and disposed in the air passage, wherein a diffuser portion is provided in the air passage, and the diffuser portion causes the cross-sectional area of a part of the air passage positioned in the vicinity of the injection port to be smaller than that of a downstream portion of the air passage positioned downstream from the injection port in the direction of the airflow. Thus, the mixing action of fuel and air can be enhanced, and combustion vibration can be prevented.

Claims (20)

1. A gas turbine combustor comprising an air passage to supply air to the inside; and a fuel nozzle which is provided with an injection port to inject fuel and is disposed in the air passage,

wherein a turbulence producing means is provided in the air passage to produce a turbulence in the vicinity of the injection port of the fuel nozzle,

wherein a diffuser portion is provided, as the turbulence producing means, in the air passage on the upstream side of the injection port in the direction of the airflow, and

further comprising a pilot nozzle to supply pilot fuel, wherein the diffuser portion is an annular diffuser portion defined by an inner wall of the air passage and an outer wall of the pilot nozzle.

2. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the turbulence producing means is adjacent to the injection port of the fuel nozzle.

3. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein a porous plate provided with a plurality of holes is further provided, as the turbulence producing means, on an upstream side of the injection port in the direction of the airflow.

4. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the hole is shaped like a circle.

5. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the hole is shaped like a rectangle.

6. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the hole extends in a radial direction of the porous plate.

7. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the hole extends in a circumferential direction of the porous plate.

8. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the diffuser portion causes the cross-sectional area of a part of the air passage positioned in the vicinity of the injection port to be smaller than that of a downstream portion of the air passage positioned downstream of the injection port in the direction of the airflow.

9. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 8 , wherein a porous plate provided with a plurality of holes is further provided, as the turbulence producing means, on an upstream side of the injection port in the direction of the airflow.

10. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 9 , wherein the hole is shaped like a circle.

11. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 9 , wherein the hole is shaped like a rectangle.

12. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 9 , wherein the hole extends in a radial direction of the porous plate.

13. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 9 , wherein the hole extends in a circumferential direction of the porous plate.

14. A gas turbine combustor comprising an air passage to supply air to the inside; and a fuel nozzle which is provided with an injection port to inject fuel and is disposed in the air passage,

wherein a turbulence producing means is provided in the air passage to produce a turbulence in the vicinity of the injection port of the fuel nozzle,

wherein the turbulence producing means comprises a porous plate provided with a plurality of holes, the porous plate being provided on an upstream side of the injection port in the direction of the airflow, and

wherein the turbulence producing means further comprises a diffuser portion provided in the air passage on the upstream side of the injection port in the direction of the airflow.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035101/0029 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2003
From: SAITOH, KEIJIRO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 013817/0937 →