Combustion chamber of a turbomachine
View Patent ↗A combustion chamber of a turbomachine is disclosed. The combustion chamber includes at least one bowl with a substantially frustoconical wall that is formed with an annular row of air injection orifices and a fuel injector arranged upstream of the bowl. The annular row of air injection orifices includes smaller-diameter orifices and larger-diameter orifices which are arranged in alternating fashion and with a uniform distribution around the axis of the bowl to produce two annular air/fuel mixture layers.
1. A combustion chamber of a turbomachine, comprising:
at least one bowl with a substantially frustoconical wall flared in a downstream direction and provided with an annular row of air injection orifices which are uniformly distributed around an axis of the bowl, and a cylindrical rim connected at a downstream end of the frustoconical wall that is mounted axially in an opening of a chamber endwall with an annular deflector downstream from the endwall; and
a fuel injector arranged upstream of the bowl and in the axis thereof which produces an annular layer of an air/fuel mixture injected downstream of the bowl,
wherein the annular row of air injection orifices comprises smaller-diameter orifices and larger-diameter orifices which are arranged in alternating fashion and with a uniform distribution around the axis of the bowl to produce two annular air/fuel mixture layers which are coaxial and have different opening angles.
2. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two larger-diameter orifices are separated by one smaller-diameter orifice.
3. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the air/fuel layer produced by the smaller-diameter orifices has a substantially frustoconical shape and an opening angle between 60 and 80° approximately.
4. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the air/fuel layer produced by the larger-diameter orifices has a substantially frustoconical shape and an opening angle between 30 and 50° approximately.
5. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the smaller-diameter air injection orifices or the larger-diameter orifices have diameters which are slightly different from one another.
6. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the smaller-diameter orifices have a mean diameter between 0.5 and 1.5 mm approximately, and the larger-diameter orifices have a mean diameter between 1.5 and 2.5 mm approximately.
7. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the row of orifices comprises between 20 and 30 air injection orifices.
8. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , comprising 16 to 26 bowls and injectors.
9. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an axial length of the chamber to a radial dimension of the chamber is between 2 and 3.
10. A turbomachine comprising a combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 .
11. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an upstream end of the frustoconical wall is fastened to an intermediate annular part and the frustoconical wall, the intermediate annular part and a radial wall define an annular flow path for an air stream of a downstream swirler.