IP Library Granted Patent US 7,188,476
Granted Patent B2
US 7,188,476 · App. 11/136,573 · Granted Mar 13, 2007

Gas turbine combustor and operating method thereof

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Patent No.
US 7,188,476
App. No.
11/136,573
Granted
Mar 13, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.

Claims (5)

1. A gas turbine combustor having a combustion chamber supplied with fuel and air, comprising:

a plurality of fuel nozzles each jetting fuel; and

a premixing plate facing said combustion chamber and having a plurality of air holes formed therein, each said air hole flowing combustion air into said combustion chamber from a circumference of a fuel jet flow from each said fuel nozzle, and premixing the jetted fuel with the combustion air, and

wherein at least one of said air holes has an axis that is not parallel to an axis of said combustion chamber.

2. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein of said air holes, said air holes disposed around the axis of said combustion chamber each have an axis that is not parallel to the axis of said combustion chamber.

Assignments (2)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 8, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033917/0209 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 22, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033003/0648 →