IP Library Granted Patent US 8,505,275
Granted Patent B2
US 8,505,275 · App. 12/687,354 · Granted Aug 13, 2013

Fuel injection systems in a turbomachine combustion chamber

Inventors: Dominique Maurice Jacques Lains (Melun, FR); Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis (Nangis, FR)
Assignee: Snecma
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Patent No.
US 8,505,275
App. No.
12/687,354
Granted
Aug 13, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbomachine including a combustion chamber provided with systems for injecting fuel into the chamber, and with at least one spark plug is disclosed. The injection system located as close as possible to the spark plug is configured in order to produce a pool of fuel having an angle of opening of a greater value than that of the pools produced by the other injection systems, and having a flow of fuel greater than that of the other injection systems.

Claims (15)

1. A turbomachine, comprising:

an annular combustion chamber delimited by internal and external coaxial revolution walls;

a chamber base wall connecting upstream ends of the internal and external revolution walls and comprising openings for mounting fuel injection systems in the chamber; and

at least one spark plug mounted in an orifice of the external revolution wall of the chamber, and oriented towards an axis of one of the injection systems,

wherein the injection system located closest to the at least one spark plug produces a substantially tapered pool of sprayed fuel having an angle of opening of a greater value than an angle of openings of the pools produced by other injection systems, and

wherein a flow of fuel of the closest injection system is greater than a flow of fuel of the other injection systems.

2. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein the flow of fuel of said closest injection system is greater by approximately 20 to 40% than the flow of fuel of the other injection systems.

3. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein the angle of opening of the pool produced by said closest injection system is between 80 and 100° , and the angle of opening of the pools produced by the other injection systems is between 50 and 70° .

4. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein two injection systems located on either side of said closest injection system produce a pool of fuel having an angle of opening greater than the angle of opening of the pools of fuel produced by the other injection systems.

5. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein the turbomachine comprises at least two spark plugs.

6. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein each injection system comprises an fuel injector of which the head is provided with an atomizing nozzle of the fuel, the atomizing nozzle of the injection system located closest to the at least one spark plug produces a fuel cone having the angle of opening of a greater value the angle of opening of the fuel cones produced by the atomizing nozzles of the other injection systems.

7. The turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein the injection system located closest to the at least one spark plug comprises an air supplying device which produces a pool of fuel having the angle of opening of a greater value than the angle of opening of the pools produced by air supplying devices of the other injection systems.

8. The turbomachine according to claim 7 , wherein the air supplying device of each injection system includes at least one turbulence gimlet extending around an axis of the opening of the chamber base wall and defining an annular stream of air flow in the chamber, and a mixing bowl of a tapered shape mounted downstream of this gimlet in the opening of the chamber base wall and comprising an annular row of orifices of the passing of air in the chamber, an axial dimension of the gimlet and the number and the diameter of the orifices of the mixing bowl being determined such that a ratio of a section of the gimlet to a section of the orifices of the bowl is between 0.8 and 1.2 for the injection system located closest to the at least one spark plug, and between 1.2 and 1.4 for the other injection systems, the value of a sum of the section of the gimlet and of the section of the orifices of the bowl being the same for all of the injection systems.

9. The turbomachine according to claim 8 , wherein the axial dimension of the gimlets of the injection systems varies between 2.5 and 5 mm.

10. The turbomachine according to claim 8 , wherein the number of orifices of the mixing bowls of the injection systems is between 20 and 30, and the diameter of the orifices is between 1.2 and 1.4 mm.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE COVER SHEET TO REMOVE APPLICATION NOS. 10250419, 10786507, 10786409, 12416418, 12531115, 12996294, 12094637 12416422 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 046479 FRAME 0807. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Aug 24, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046939/0336 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 23, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046479/0807 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2010
From: LAINS, DOMINIQUE MAURICE JACQUES; SANDELIS, DENIS JEAN MAURICE
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 023787/0095 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 09 01143 · Mar 12, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100229559A1 · Sep 16, 2010