Toroidal boundary layer gas turbine
View Patent ↗A device comprising a combustion toroid for receiving combustion-induced centrifugal forces therein to continuously combust fluids located therein and an outlet for exhaust from said combustion toroid.
1. A device, comprising:
a shaft;
a plurality of annular discs radially connected to said shaft through the center of said plurality of discs, the plurality of discs is substantially parallel and forms a space between each adjacent pair of discs,
a combustion chamber receiving combusted fluid, said combustion chamber having at least one wall incompletely circumscribing said plurality of discs,
a plurality of fuel injectors, wherein the plurality of fuel injectors are aligned to inject combustible fluid substantially tangential to a combustion chamber wall for generating a circumferential combustion vortex within said combustion chamber,
wherein when there is a flow of said combusted fluid from said combustion chamber between said discs towards said shaft, said flow of said combusted fluid rotating said plurality of discs.
2. The combustion chamber of claim 1 , wherein said combustion chamber is substantially a torus.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of fuel injectors are concentric with said plurality of annular discs.
4. The device of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of fuel injectors are circumferentially spaced.
5. The device of claim 1 , wherein said least one combustion chamber comprises a rounded cross-section in said combustion chamber.
6. The device of claim 1 , wherein said combustion chamber comprises a toroidal combustion chamber with an elliptical cross-section.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein said combustion chamber is a torus.
8. The device of claim 1 , wherein said combustion chamber is a toroidal combustion chamber.
9. The device of claim 8 , wherein said plurality of fuel injectors are concentric with said plurality of annular discs.
10. The device of claim 9 , wherein said plurality of fuel injectors are circumferentially spaced.
11. The device of claim 10 , wherein said toroidal combustion chamber comprises a circular cross-section.
12. The device of claim 1 , wherein said combustion chamber is made of a technical ceramic.
13. The device of claim 12 , wherein said technical ceramic comprises silicon carbide.
14. The device of claim 13 , wherein said combustion chamber is a substantially a torus.
15. The device of claim 1 , wherein said at least one wall is configured to allow passage of combusted product from said combustion chamber to said plurality of annular discs.
16. A device, comprising:
a toroidal combustion chamber comprising;
a plurality of fuel injectors, wherein the plurality of fuel injectors are aligned to inject a combustible fluid substantially tangential to a combustion chamber wall for generating a circumferential combustion vortex within the combustion chamber,
a plurality of annular discs radially connected to a shaft through the center of said plurality of discs, the plurality of discs is substantially parallel and forms a space between each adjacent pair of discs,
wherein said discs are incompletely circumscribed by said toroidal combustion chamber and said discs are radially coupled to said shaft concentric with said toroidal combustion chamber,
wherein when there is a flow of a combusted fluid from said combustion chamber between said discs towards said shaft, said flow of said combusted fluid rotating said plurality of discs.
17. The device of claim 16 , further comprising catalytic combustion means.
18. The device of claim 16 , wherein said shaft provides power from said combustible fluid.
19. The device of claim 16 , wherein at least one of said plurality of fuel injectors are located about the distal edge of said toroidal combustion chamber.