IP Library Granted Patent US 7,571,609
Granted Patent B2
US 7,571,609 · App. 12/078,218 · Granted Aug 11, 2009

Gas turbine combustor and fuel supply method for same

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Patent No.
US 7,571,609
App. No.
12/078,218
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 (9)

1. A gas turbine combustor for mixing fuel into combustion air introduced from a compressor, burning an air-fuel mixture, and supplying produced combustion gas to a gas turbine, the combustor comprising:

a first fuel nozzle for jetting out fuel;

a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with said first fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape gradually spreading in the direction in which the fuel is jetted out from said first fuel nozzle, and defining a pre-mixture chamber therein;

a plurality of air inlet holes bored through said pre-mixture chamber wall and introducing the combustion air to said pre-mixture chamber such that angles at which the combustion air is introduced to said pre-mixture chamber through said air inlet holes are deflected at least toward the circumferential direction of said pre-mixture chamber wall; and

a plurality of second fuel nozzles disposed outside an outer circumferential side of said pre-mixture chamber wall and around said pre-mixture chamber wall in an opposing relation respectively to said plurality of air inlet holes.

2. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein said air inlet holes are bored through said pre-mixture chamber wall such that the angles at which the combustion air is introduced to said pre-mixture chamber through said air inlet holes change depending on axial positions of said pre-mixture chamber wall.

3. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 2 , wherein, in an upstream area of said pre-mixture chamber, said air inlet holes are arranged to jet out coaxial jet streams of the second fuel and the combustion air toward the vicinity of a jet-out position of said first fuel nozzle, and as approaching a downstream area of said pre-mixture chamber, said air inlet holes are arranged to jet out the coaxial jet streams of the second fuel and the combustion air to flow in a more closely following relation to a wall surface of said pre-mixture chamber.

4. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein a spreading angle of said pre-mixture chamber wall is set to have a larger value from a predetermined axial position of said pre-mixture chamber wall.

5. A gas turbine combustor according to claim 1 , wherein said first fuel nozzle jets out gaseous fuel or liquid fuel, and said second fuel nozzles jet out gaseous fuel.

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 →