IP Library Granted Patent US 7,540,154
Granted Patent B2
US 7,540,154 · App. 11/201,276 · Granted Jun 2, 2009

Gas turbine combustor

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Patent No.
US 7,540,154
App. No.
11/201,276
Granted
Jun 2, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention aims to suppress the occurrence of smoke, for example, during a light load operation of a gas turbine, by adopting an air blast method for a pilot nozzle in a dual fuel combustion low NO x combustor. A gas turbine combustor of the present invention is that in a gas turbine furnished with a dual fuel combustion low NO x combustor having a pilot nozzle capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, and a plurality of main nozzles disposed around the pilot nozzle and being capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, wherein the pilot nozzle has a gas nozzle portion for injecting the gaseous fuel, and a liquid nozzle portion for injecting the liquid fuel, adopts an air blast method for the liquid nozzle portion, uses combustion air as air for an air blast, and throws the combustion air at a liquid film formed in the liquid nozzle portion to atomize the liquid fuel by use of a velocity difference.

Claims (7)

1. A gas turbine combustor in a gas turbine furnished with a dual fuel combustion low NO x combustor having a pilot nozzle capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively, and a plurality of main nozzles disposed around the pilot nozzle and being capable of injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel simultaneously or selectively,

wherein the pilot nozzle has a gas nozzle portion for injecting the gaseous fuel, and a liquid nozzle portion for injecting the liquid fuel, adopts an air blast method for the liquid nozzle portion, uses combustion air as air for an air blast, and throws the combustion air at a liquid film formed in the liquid nozzle portion to atomize the liquid fuel by use of a velocity difference between the combustion air and the liquid film,

wherein the liquid nozzle portion is formed in an annular shape in order to inject the liquid fuel in an annular liquid film state, and further has a first air blast nozzle portion for producing an air blast along an inner surface of a film of the liquid fuel injected in the annular liquid film state, and a second air blast nozzle portion for producing an air blast along an outer surface of the film of the liquid fuel, and

wherein the first air blast nozzle portion is provided at a center of the pilot nozzle, and the combustion air within a turbine casing is supplied to the first air blast nozzle portion via external piping through an air passage penetrating a center of the pilot nozzle.

2. The gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the second air blast nozzle portion is formed in an annular shape for producing the air blast in an annular form.

3. The gas turbine combustor according to claim 2 , wherein the second air blast nozzle portion has a swirler disposed in an interior thereof.

4. The gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the first air blast nozzle portion has a swirler disposed in an interior thereof.

Assignments (3)
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 →