IP Library Granted Patent US 8,459,985
Granted Patent B2
US 8,459,985 · App. 12/876,508 · Granted Jun 11, 2013

Method and burner arrangement for the production of hot gas, and use of said method

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Patent No.
US 8,459,985
App. No.
12/876,508
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing hot gas for operating a turbomachine fired with at least one combustion chamber includes premixing a fuel with a plurality of operating gases by introducing fuel into the plurality of operating gases in a mixing chamber disposed upstream of the combustion chamber using a burner arrangement, wherein the fuel includes at least one of a combustible gas and a H 2 -rich fuel; and introducing the premixed fuel into the combustion chamber.

Claims (15)

1. A method for producing hot gas for operating a turbomachine fired using at least one combustion chamber, the method comprising:

providing a burner arrangement upstream of the combustion chamber, the burner arrangement including a swirler and a mixing tube;

premixing a fuel including natural gas with air in the swirler so as to create an air/fuel mixture;

injecting an H 2 -rich fuel into the air/fuel mixture so as to produce a premixed fuel by injecting the H 2 -rich fuel into the mixing tube; and

introducing the premixed fuel into the combustion chamber.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the injecting the H 2 -rich fuel includes injecting a ratio of the H 2 -rich fuel of at most 30% to the natural gas.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the introducing the fuel is performed at an angle.

4. The method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the angle is between 20° and 120°.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the burner arrangement includes a fuel lance projecting into a hot gas flow, and further comprising injecting the fuel mixture into the hot gas flow using the fuel lance.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 , wherein the at least one combustion chamber includes a second combustion chamber, and further comprising operating the second combustion chamber using a self-igniting combustion process, wherein the introducing is performed using the at least one fuel lance.

7. The method as recited in claim 6 , further comprising operating at least one vortex generator upstream of fuel lance.

8. The method as recited in claim 6 , further comprising disposing at least one further injection device downstream of the fuel lance.

9. The method as recited in claim 6 , wherein the introducing includes feeding air with the at least one fuel.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising feeding air into the at least one fuel separately.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising admixing air with the at least one fuel.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2017
From: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
To: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 041686/0884 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 22, 2016
From: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
To: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Reel/Frame 038216/0193 →