IP Library Granted Patent US 9,353,951
Granted Patent B2
US 9,353,951 · App. 13/047,227 · Granted May 31, 2016

Burner, combustor and remodeling method for burner

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Patent No.
US 9,353,951
App. No.
13/047,227
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A combustor with a burner maintains combustion stability. The burner includes an air hole member 31 with a plurality of air holes 34, 35 provided at an upstream side of the combustion gases generated by a combustion chamber 1 . A first fueling nozzle 33 jets fuel in a direction crossing a central axis of the burner towards at least two of air holes 35 . A plurality of second fueling nozzles 32 , one for each of the remaining air holes 34 , are provided to jet the fuel in a direction routed along the burner axis towards the corresponding air hole 34 . A fuel header 30 distributes the fuel to the first fueling nozzle 33 and each of the second fueling nozzles 32 . A fuel header storage unit 70 shrouds the fuel header 30 , fueling nozzles 32, 33 , and has an air inflow hole 71.

Claims (7)

1. A combustion method for a burner, the method including:

Providing an air hole member with a plurality of air holes including an inner-array of said plurality of air holes and an outer-array of said plurality of air holes, with each said air hole in said plurality of air holes having an air hole center, the air hole member being provided at an upstream side of a combustion chamber in a flow direction of gases passing through the air hole member; and

providing a fuel header having a plurality of fueling nozzles with each said fueling nozzle being provided at an upstream side of the plurality of air holes in the air hole member, the plurality of fueling nozzles including at least one first fueling nozzle which is offset from the air hole center of each one of the plurality of air holes in the air hole member, said at least one first fueling nozzle being generally cylindrical and having a cylindrical outer circumferential surface with a plurality of jetting ports on said cylindrical outer circumferential surface, the plurality of fueling nozzles further including a plurality of second fueling nozzles separate from said at least one first fueling nozzle having said plurality of jetting ports on its cylindrical outer circumferential surface, ones of the plurality of air holes in said inner-array of said plurality of air holes being associated with said at least one first fueling nozzle and being distinct from ones of the plurality of air holes in said outer-array of said plurality of air holes which are associated with said second fueling nozzles, said ones of said plurality of air holes in said inner-array of said plurality of air holes receiving fuel only from said at least one first fueling nozzle;

jetting a first fuel flow divergently from said plurality of jetting ports on said cylindrical outer circumferential surface of said at least one first fueling nozzle only towards at least two of the plurality of air holes, positioned in said inner-array of said plurality of air holes on the air hole member;

directing said first fuel flow in a radially outward direction, said radially outward direction being inclined relative to a direction of an axis of the burner;

jetting a second fuel flow from the plurality of second fueling nozzles towards outer-array of said plurality of air holes; and

directing said second fuel flow only toward said outer-array of said plurality of said air holes in the air hole member and which said outer-array of said plurality of air holes is separate from the at least two of the plurality of air holes in the inner-array of air holes, which the at least two of the plurality of air holes in the inner-array of air holes are receiving the first fuel flow from only the plurality of jetting ports on the cylindrical outer circumferential surface of said at least one first fueling nozzle.

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 →
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 8, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033917/0209 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 11, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 032865/0800 →