Annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine
View Patent ↗An annular gas turbine engine combustion chamber including an outer wall and an inner wall connected by a wall forming the chamber bottom is disclosed. The walls delimit sources of combustion with axes inclined relative to the axis of the chamber. The chamber-bottom wall, of frustoconical shape, is pierced with orifices for the fuel injection systems, the planes of the orifices being perpendicular to the axes of the sources of combustion. The combustion chamber also includes heat-protection baffles centered on each of the orifices with a shoulder by which they rest against a flat surface portion along the periphery of the orifices. The chamber-bottom wall is conformed in a succession of adjacent flat facets having a common edge, with one facet per orifice, and the shoulder of the deflectors pressing against the plane of the facets.
1. A gas turbine engine annular combustion chamber comprising:
an outer wall;
an inner wall;
a chamber-bottom wall connecting the outer wall and the inner wall such that the outer, inner and chamber-bottom walls delimit sources of combustion with axes inclined relative to an axis of the chamber, the chamber-bottom wall, of frustoconical shape, being pierced with orifices for the fuel injection systems, planes of the orifices being perpendicular to the axes of said sources of combustion; and
heat-protection baffles centered on each of the orifices comprising a flat shoulder which rest against a flat surface portion of the chamber-bottom wall along a periphery of the orifices,
wherein the chamber-bottom wall includes a succession of adjacent flat facets surrounding each of the orifices, each of the flat facets including a radially inner side, a radially outer side, and two rectilinear sides connecting the radially inner side and the radially outer side, the rectilinear sides being continuous with and common to two adjacent facets, are formed of a bended sheet of metal, and are oriented in a radial direction passing through an axis of the engine, and
wherein the adjacent flat facets form a V-shape with an apex extending in a downstream direction with respect to gas flow such that the shoulder of the baffles rests against downstream sides of the facets.
2. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the intersection of the planes of two adjacent facets forms a straight line passing through the axis of the combustion chamber.
3. The chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the minimal distance between two adjacent orifices is less than a value E=9*e+2*p+5 in mm, with “e” corresponding to the thickness of the metal sheet forming the chamber-bottom wall and “p” the width of said shoulder.
4. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the minimal distance between two orifices is less than 21.5 mm for a wall thickness e=1.5 mm.
5. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the width of the shoulder is p=1.5 mm.
6. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the baffles comprise a flat surface portion bordered by two small lateral walls for a seal with the chamber bottom.
7. The combustion chamber as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each baffle has an increased thickness in a zone corresponding to a space between two adjacent baffles.
8. The combustion chamber as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6 of the divergent type.
9. A gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber as claimed in one of claims 1 to 6 .