IP Library Granted Patent US 7,571,612
Granted Patent B2
US 7,571,612 · App. 12/078,216 · Granted Aug 11, 2009

Gas turbine combustor and fuel supply method for same

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Patent No.
US 7,571,612
App. No.
12/078,216
Granted
Aug 11, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbine combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel; a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with the liquid fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein; a plurality of air inlet holes bored through the pre-mixture chamber wall and introducing the combustion air to the pre-mixture chamber such that angles at which the combustion air is introduced to the pre-mixture chamber through the air inlet holes are deflected at least toward the circumferential direction of the pre-mixture chamber wall; and a plurality of gaseous fuel nozzles disposed around the pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to the plurality of air inlet holes and jetting out gaseous fuel substantially coaxially with axes of the air inlet holes.

Claims (6)

1. A fuel supply method for a gas turbine combustor for mixing combustion air introduced from a compressor and fuel in a pre-mixture chamber, the method comprising the steps of:

jetting first fuel into said pre-mixture chamber from an upstream side in an axial direction of said pre-mixture chamber; and

jetting second fuel into a plurality of air inlet holes bored through a pre-mixture chamber wall having a hollow conical shape forming said pre-mixture chamber from positions disposed outside and around an outer circumferential side of said pre-mixture chamber wall, the jetting of second fuel being in an opposing relation respectively to said plurality of air inlet holes thereby to jet out a coaxial jet stream of said second fuel and the combustion air into said pre-mixture chamber toward a wall surface of said pre-mixture chamber wall while deflecting the coaxial jet stream at least toward the circumferential direction of said pre-mixture chamber.

2. A fuel supply method for a gas turbine combustor for mixing combustion air introduced from a compressor and fuel in a pre-mixture chamber, the method comprising the steps of:

jetting first fuel into said pre-mixture chamber from an upstream side in an axial direction of said pre-mixture chamber; and

jetting second fuel into a plurality of air inlet holes bored through a pre-mixture chamber wall having a hollow conical shape forming said pre-mixture chamber from positions outside and around an outer circumferential side of said pre-mixture chamber wall, the jetting of second fuel being disposed in an opposing relation respectively to said plurality of air inlet holes thereby to jet out a coaxial jet stream of said second fuel and the combustion air into said pre-mixture chamber from the outer peripheral side of said pre-mixture chamber wall.

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 →