IP Library Granted Patent US 7,360,363
Granted Patent B2
US 7,360,363 · App. 10/415,649 · Granted Apr 22, 2008

Premixing nozzle, combustor, and gas turbine

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Patent No.
US 7,360,363
App. No.
10/415,649
Granted
Apr 22, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A premixing nozzle includes swirler blades for agitating combustion air inside a nozzle body. Each one end of the swirler blades is fitted to the nozzle body, and the other end is connected to a hub, respectively. The tip portion of a fuel nozzle shaft is conical, and a part of the tip portion is arranged inside the hub. A combustion gas flows into the hub from a space between the tip portion of the fuel nozzle shaft and the upstream end of the hub, passes through between the tip portion and the inner peripheral surface of the hub, and flows toward the downstream of the hub.

Claims (17)

1. A premixing nozzle for a gas turbine combustor, comprising:

a swirler blade positioned inside a nozzle body;

a tube-shaped hub that is connected to the swirler blade, wherein a combustion gas is passed through a hollow portion of the hub;

a fuel nozzle shaft that is located inside the nozzle body and that is coaxial with the hub, wherein the fuel nozzle shaft is configured to have a tip portion which is tapered toward a tip of the fuel nozzle shaft and arranged inside the hub having a gap larger than 3 mm between the fuel nozzle shaft and the hub; and

hollow gas fuel supply blades fitted in the upstream of the fuel nozzle shaft, wherein

gas fuel is configured to be injected from a plurality of gas fuel supply holes provided on the sides of the gas fuel supply blades, to thereby form a combustion gas as a mixed gas of the gas fuel and combustion air.

2. The premixing nozzle according to claim 1 , wherein

the combustion gas is passed through the gap between an inner surface of the hub and the tip portion of the fuel nozzle shaft.

3. The premixing nozzle according to claim 1 , wherein

the hollow portion of the hub is tapered with a diameter smaller toward an outlet of the nozzle body as compared to a diameter in the other portion of the hollow portion,

the fuel nozzle shaft has a tip portion whose diameter decreases toward an outlet of the nozzle body, the tip portion being arranged inside the hub, and

the combustion gas is passed through a space between an inner peripheral surface of the hub and the tip portion.

4. The premixing nozzle according to claim 1 , wherein

the hollow portion of the hub is tapered with a diameter smaller toward an outlet of the nozzle body as compared to a diameter in the other portion of the hollow portion,

the fuel nozzle shaft has a tip portion whose diameter is smaller than that of the fuel nozzle shaft, the tip portion being arranged inside the hub, and

the combustion gas is passed through a space between an inner peripheral surface of the hub and the tip portion.

5. The premixing nozzle according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel nozzle shaft is arranged outside of the hub.

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 Nov 4, 2003
From: MANDAI, SHIGEMI; SAITOH, KEIJIROU; TANAKA, KATSUNORI; AKIZUKI, WATARU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 014660/0038 →