IP Library Granted Patent US 8,904,794
Granted Patent B2
US 8,904,794 · App. 12/671,046 · Granted Dec 9, 2014

Gas turbine having a combustion oscillation suppressing device

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Patent No.
US 8,904,794
App. No.
12/671,046
Granted
Dec 9, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbine including a combustion oscillation suppressing device disposed to a transition piece of a combustor to define a gas space S, and having a plurality of vent holes through which a gas space L and the inside of the transition piece communicate. The combustion oscillation suppressing device is formed of a first member and a second member which define the gas space, the second member having the plurality of vent holes, and a portion of a transition piece wall includes the second member. A distance from the second member to the first member in the radial direction of the transition piece is a height of the gas space, and when the height of the gas space varies along an axial direction of the transition piece, an opening ratio σp of each of the plurality of vent holes is adjusted depending on the height of the gas space.

Claims (7)

1. A gas turbine comprising

a combustion oscillation suppressing device being disposed to a transition piece of the combustor to define a gas space, and communicating the gas space and an inside of the transition piece through a plurality of vent holes, in order to reduce combustion oscillation generated in a combustor, wherein

the combustion oscillation suppressing device is formed of a first member and a second member both of which define the gas space, the second member having the plurality of vent holes, wherein a portion of a transition piece wall comprises the second member,

in a radial-direction cross section of the transition piece, a distance from the second member to the first member in the radial direction of the transition piece is referred to as a height h of the gas space, and when the height h of the gas space varies along an axial direction of the transition piece, an opening ratio σp of each of the plurality of vent holes is adjusted depending on the height h of the gas space,

wherein as the height h of the gas space decreases, from upstream to downstream, along the axial direction of the transition piece, the opening ratio σp of each of the plurality of vent holes decreases, and

wherein the opening ratio σp of each of the plurality of vent holes is adjusted by varying diameters of the vent holes alone the axial direction of the transition piece.

2. The gas turbine according to claim 1 , wherein a sound tube used for adjusting acoustic absorption characteristics of a specific frequency band is disposed to the first member.

Assignments (4)
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 12, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034950/0942 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2010
From: MATSUYAMA, KEISUKE; MIYAUCHI, KOTARO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023878/0497 →