Granted Patent B2

US 7,017,329 · App. 10/682,943 · Granted Mar 28, 2006

Abstract

Claims (13)

1. A power turbine including a combustor to combust a selected fuel in a selected oxidizer, comprising:

a premix chamber to allow mixing of the selected fuel and the selected oxidizer;

an oxidizer supply to supply the selected oxidizer to said premix chamber;

a fuel supply to supply the selected fuel to the premix chamber; and

a porous injector plate to inject the fuel into said premix chamber;

wherein the selected fuel is provided through the porous injector plate to mix with the selected oxidizer from said oxidizer supply.

2. The power turbine of claim 1 , wherein said premix chamber includes a void defined by a structure that allows the selected fuel to mix with the selected oxidizer in a substantially random manner to achieve the mixing.

3. The power turbine of claim 1 , wherein said oxidizer supply supplies a volume of compressed atmospheric air as the selected oxidizer.

4. The power turbine of claim 1 , wherein said porous injector plate includes a plurality of pores defined by said porous injector plate.

5. The power turbine of claim 4 , wherein each of said plurality of pores is formed by sintering a plurality of woven layers to form said porous injector plate including said plurality of pores defined by the plurality of sintered woven layers.

6. The power turbine of claim 1 , wherein said porous injector plate forms an acoustic barrier between a main combustion chamber and said fuel supply;

wherein the porous injector plate assists in allowing a substantially single flow direction of the fuel into the premix chamber.

7. The power turbine of claim 1 , wherein a pressure of said premix chamber is substantially below a pressure of the fuel supplied by said fuel supply.

Assignments (12)