IP Library Granted Patent US 9,664,390
Granted Patent B2
US 9,664,390 · App. 13/936,424 · Granted May 30, 2017

Burner arrangement including an air supply with two flow passages

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Patent No.
US 9,664,390
App. No.
13/936,424
Granted
May 30, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention refers to burner arrangement for producing hot gases to be expanded in a gas turbine, including a burner inside a plenum, where the burner has means for fuel injection, means for air supply and means for generating an ignitable fuel/air mixture inside the burner, and a combustion chamber following downstream said burner having an outlet being fluidly connected to the gas turbine. The invention is characterized in that the means for air supply includes at least two separate flow passages, and that the one of the two flow passages is fed by a first supply pressure and the other flow passage is fed by a second supply pressure.

Claims (23)

1. A burner arrangement for producing hot gases to be expanded in a gas turbine, comprising:

a burner inside a plenum, said burner has means for fuel injection, means for air supply and means for generating an ignitable fuel/air mixture inside the burner;

a combustion chamber following downstream of said burner having an outlet being fluidly connected to the gas turbine;

a combustor liner arranged between the combustion chamber and a combustor wall and

wherein the means for air supply comprise at least two flow passages which are separate, wherein one of the at least two flow passages is fluidly connected to the plenum and is configured to be fed by a first supply pressure and an other flow passage is configured to be fed by a second supply pressure, wherein the other flow passage is an outer flow passage which surrounds the one flow passage, which is an inner flow passage, along an entire length of the inner flow passage and at least one fluid access in the combustor liner from the plenum to the outer flow passage is in a downstream end of the combustion chamber.

2. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the plenum is fluidly connected to a compressor.

3. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 wherein a flow swirler is arranged along at least one of the two flow passages.

4. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 where the inner and outer flow passages are coaxial and each flow passage has a flow exit plane, and that the flow exit plane of the inner flow passage is upstream of the flow exit plane of the outer flow passage.

5. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 wherein the means for fuel injection is arranged inside the inner flow passage.

6. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 wherein the outer flow passage is fluidly connected with the inner flow passage.

7. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 wherein the inner flow passage is surrounded by a channel wall which has an axial downstream edge having a lobed shape.

8. A burner arrangement according to claim 1 wherein the inner flow passage is surrounded by a channel wall which has an axial downstream edge including means for fuel injection.

9. A burner arrangement for producing hot gases to be expanded in a gas turbine, comprising:

a burner inside a plenum, said burner has a fuel lance for fuel injection, an air supply circuit fluidly connected to a compressed air source and a swirler for generating an ignitable fuel/air mixture inside the burner;

a combustion chamber following downstream of said burner having an outlet being fluidly connected to the gas turbine;

a combustor liner arranged between the combustion chamber and a combustor wall and

wherein the air supply circuit comprises at least two flow passages which are separate, wherein one of the at least two flow passages is fluidly connected to the plenum and is configured to be fed by a first supply pressure and an other flow passage is configured to be fed by a second supply pressure, wherein the other flow passage is an outer flow passage which surrounds the one flow passage, which is an inner flow passage, along an entire length of the inner flow passage and at least one fluid access in the combustor liner from the plenum to the outer flow passage is in a downstream end of the combustion chamber.

10. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 wherein a flow swirler is arranged along at least one of the two flow passages.

11. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 where the inner and outer flow passages are coaxial and each flow passage has a flow exit plane, and that the flow exit plane of the inner flow passage is upstream of the flow exit plane of the outer flow passage.

12. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 wherein the fuel lance is arranged inside the inner flow passage.

13. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 wherein the outer flow passage is fluidly connected with the inner flow passage.

14. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 wherein the inner flow passage is surrounded by a channel wall which has an axial downstream edge having a lobed shape.

15. A burner arrangement according to claim 9 wherein the inner flow passage is surrounded by a channel wall which has an axial downstream edge including means for fuel injection.

Assignments (3)
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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 6, 2013
From: BERNERO, STEFANO; PASQUALOTTO, ENNIO; FREITAG, EWALD
To: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
Reel/Frame 031151/0368 →