IP Library Granted Patent US 7,832,211
Granted Patent B2
US 7,832,211 · App. 10/525,004 · Granted Nov 16, 2010

Gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine equipped therewith

Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,832,211
App. No.
10/525,004
Granted
Nov 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

In order to realize a stable decrease in NOx, a gas turbine combustor is supplied which can reduce combustion vibration. A combustor ( 3 ) is provided with a first box body ( 30 ), which is installed outside an object body ( 20 ) such as a combustor basket ( 6 ), a transition piece ( 7 ) or a bypass duct ( 11 ) so as to form a first internal space ( 31 ) having a predetermined capacity; and a first throat ( 32 ) having a predetermined length which has one end ( 32 a ) open to a side wall ( 20 a ) of the object body ( 20 ) and has the other end ( 32 b ) open to a first internal space ( 31 ); wherein, a first resistive element ( 33 ) having a multiple number of through-holes is inserted and engaged to one end ( 32 a ). Fluid particles serving as vibration elements of combustion vibration caused in a combustion region are effectively trapped by the first resistive element ( 33 ) and at the same time resonate with the air of the first internal space ( 31 ) being connected through the first throat ( 32 ) and vibrate in the neighborhood of the first resistive element ( 33 ), thereby damping vibration amplitude thereof.

Claims (14)

1. A gas turbine combustor having a cylinder body, comprising:

an air-container body which accommodates air for resonance for fluid particles serving as vibration elements of combustion vibration;

a resonator having an internal cavity which is installed around a periphery of the cylinder body and which is arranged so as to communicate with the cylinder body through sound-absorption holes; and

a first throat having a predetermined length which has one end opening to the internal cavity of the resonator and which has another end opening to the air-container body,

wherein the air-container body forms a closed space excluding an opening only through the first throat,

wherein the air-container body is disposed on the periphery of the cylinder body so as to be adjacent to the resonator, and a longitudinal direction of the first throat is transverse with respect to a longitudinal direction of each of the sound-absorption holes.

2. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 1 , wherein said first throat has a first resistive element inserted into and engaged with said one end of said first throat, said first resistive element having a multiple number of through-holes.

3. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 2 , wherein an opening area of said one end of said first throat is larger than that of said another end of said first throat.

4. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 3 , wherein said first throat has a second resistive element inserted into and engaged with said another end of said first throat, said second resistive element having a multiple number of through-holes.

5. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 1 , wherein said air-container body is one of a plurality of air-container bodies installed in parallel to said resonator.

6. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 5 ,

wherein said first throat is one of a plurality of first throats, each of said first throats having one end opening to said internal cavity of said resonator and having another end opening to a respective one of said air-container bodies, and wherein a dividing wall is installed between each of said one ends of said first throats in said internal cavity of said resonator.

7. A gas turbine combustor as described in claim 6 , wherein said dividing wall serves as a resistive element having a multiple number of through-holes.

8. A gas turbine, comprising: an air compressor; a gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 ; and a turbine.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
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 17, 2005
From: IKEDA, KAZUFUMI; MANDAI, SHIGEMI; KAWATA, YUTAKA; AOYAMA, KUNIAKI; ONO, MASAKI; TANAKA, KATSUNORI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 016757/0769 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2002-349745 · Dec 2, 2002 · national
JP 2002-349753 · Dec 2, 2002 · national
JP 2002-349763 · Dec 2, 2002 · national
JP 2002-349772 · Dec 2, 2002 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20050223707A1 · Oct 13, 2005