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公开(公告)号:US11994295B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-28
申请号:US17651642
申请日:2022-02-18
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Pradeep Naik , Shai Birmaher , Kwanwoo Kim , Saket Singh , Perumallu Vukanti , Karthikeyan Sampath , Steven C. Vise , Nicholas R. Overman , Michael A. Benjamin
Abstract: A swirler assembly includes a swirler having primary swirler with a primary swirler venturi, a swirler ferrule plate connected to the primary swirler, and a fuel nozzle disposed in the swirler ferrule plate. The swirler ferrule plate has an aft wall, an annular conical wall, and an annular cavity wall that together form an annular cavity. The annular cavity includes a plurality of inlet orifices, and at least one outlet orifice. A flow of oxidizer through the plurality of inlet orifices into the annular cavity incurs a first pressure drop from a first pressure of a pressure plenum to a second pressure lower than the first pressure, and a flow of the oxidizer from the annular cavity through the at least one outlet orifice into the primary swirler venturi incurs a second pressure drop from the second pressure to a third pressure lower than the second pressure.
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公开(公告)号:US11898752B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17932332
申请日:2022-09-15
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Hiranya Nath , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Michael A. Benjamin
CPC classification number: F23R3/002 , F23M20/005 , F23R2900/00014 , F23R2900/03042
Abstract: A hollow plank of a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber including an inner wall having a plurality of inner openings and one or more inner holes, an outer wall having one or more outer openings and a plurality of outer holes, a plurality of lateral walls coupled to the inner wall and the outer wall to define a cavity, and a partition wall connected to the plurality of lateral walls and dividing the cavity into a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity. The one or more outer openings communicate with the first sub-cavity and communicate through a plurality of tubes with the second sub-cavity. The plurality of inner openings communicate with the second sub-cavity and communicate with the first sub-cavity through one or more bypass tubes. The first sub-cavity or the second sub-cavity, or both, are frequency tuned to reduce combustion dynamic frequencies.
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公开(公告)号:US20230408098A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
申请号:US17664971
申请日:2022-05-25
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Saket Singh , Rimple Rangrej , Pradeep Naik , Michael A. Benjamin , Joseph Zelina
Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine includes a combustor liner having an outer liner and an inner liner defining a combustion chamber therebetween. At least one of the outer liner and the inner liner includes a dilution fence arranged in a dilution zone of the combustion chamber. The dilution fence extends into the combustion chamber and has at least one secondary fuel nozzle opening therethrough, and at least one secondary fuel nozzle is arranged through the at least one secondary fuel nozzle opening.
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公开(公告)号:US20230366550A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-16
申请号:US18355449
申请日:2023-07-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Perumallu Vukanti , Varun S. Lakshmanan , Michael T. Bucaro , Pradeep Naik , Steven C. Vise , Michael A. Benjamin
CPC classification number: F23R3/06 , F23R3/16 , F23R3/28 , F23R2900/03044
Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section and a combustion section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline, the combustion section having a combustor liner, a dome wall coupled to the combustor liner, and a dome inlet located in the dome wall, a fuel injector fluidly coupled to the dome inlet, a combustion chamber fluidly coupled to the fuel injector and defined at least in part by the combustor liner and the dome wall, and at least one set of dilution openings located in the dome wall and fluidly coupled to the combustion chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US20230332549A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US17719659
申请日:2022-04-13
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Hejie Li , Michael A. Benjamin , Nicholas Ryan Overman
CPC classification number: F02C9/28 , F02C7/224 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2270/303 , F05D2270/20 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2270/301
Abstract: A fuel temperature control system and a method of controlling a fuel temperature for a turbine engine including supplying an aviation fuel to a fuel nozzle fluidly coupled to a combustion chamber. A fuel temperature sensor for determining at least one input parameter to define an inlet fuel temperature of the aviation fuel in the fuel nozzle. A controller for receiving the at least one input parameter and for calculating a calculated flow number in the fuel nozzle. The controller capable of comparing the calculated flow number and a reference flow number associated with a threshold during a steady state condition to determine if the aviation fuel is boiling inside the fuel nozzle.
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公开(公告)号:US20230303940A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-28
申请号:US17815637
申请日:2022-07-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Arundhati Sengupta , Karthick Gourishankar , Narayanan Janakiraman , Lawrence B. Kool , Sanjay Kumar Sondhi , Michael A. Benjamin , Hejie Li
CPC classification number: C10L10/04 , F02C3/24 , F02C7/22 , C10L2200/043 , C10L2230/04 , C10L2250/04 , C10L2270/04 , F05D2260/95
Abstract: A component and a system for mitigating coke formation during delivery of a hydrocarbon fluid. The component includes a contact surface configured to be in contact with the hydrocarbon fluid. Tuning the zeta potential of the contact surface allows selective attraction and/or repulsion of coke-catalyzing materials, metal ions, heteroatomic hydrocarbons, and/or coke precursors present in the hydrocarbon fluid. A method of mitigating coke formation during delivery of a hydrocarbon fluid includes tuning a zeta potential of the contact surface of the component and injecting or circulating the hydrocarbon fluid through the system such that the contact surface selectively attracts and/or repels coke-catalyzing materials, metal ions, heteroatomic hydrocarbons, and/or coke precursors present in the hydrocarbon fluid.
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公开(公告)号:US20230266012A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-24
申请号:US17651685
申请日:2022-02-18
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Lawrence B. Kool , Bernard P. Bewlay , Byron A. Pritchard , Ramal Janith Samarasinghe , Michael A. Benjamin , Lakshmi Krishnan , Hrishikesh Keshavan
Abstract: A mixer assembly for a gas turbine engine. The mixer assembly includes a housing and a fuel injection port. The housing has a passage formed therein, and the housing includes a passage wall facing the passage. The fuel injection port is fluidly connected to a fuel source and is configured to inject a hydrocarbon fuel into the passage. At least a portion of the passage wall is a coated passage wall. The coated passage wall is (i) coated with a layer of a catalytic metal and (ii) located downstream of the fuel injection port.
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公开(公告)号:US20230266006A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-24
申请号:US17651642
申请日:2022-02-18
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Pradeep Naik , Shai Birmaher , Kwanwoo Kim , Saket Singh , Perumallu Vukanti , Karthikeyan Sampath , Steven C. Vise , Nicholas R. Overman , Michael A. Benjamin
Abstract: A swirler assembly includes a swirler having primary swirler with a primary swirler venturi, a swirler ferrule plate connected to the primary swirler, and a fuel nozzle disposed in the swirler ferrule plate. The swirler ferrule plate has an aft wall, an annular conical wall, and an annular cavity wall that together form an annular cavity. The annular cavity includes a plurality of inlet orifices, and at least one outlet orifice. A flow of oxidizer through the plurality of inlet orifices into the annular cavity incurs a first pressure drop from a first pressure of a pressure plenum to a second pressure lower than the first pressure, and a flow of the oxidizer from the annular cavity through the at least one outlet orifice into the primary swirler venturi incurs a second pressure drop from the second pressure to a third pressure lower than the second pressure.
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公开(公告)号:US20230250961A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US17664975
申请日:2022-05-25
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Hiranya Nath , Michael A. Benjamin
Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine includes a combustor liner that has an outer liner and an inner liner. At least one of the outer liner and the inner liner includes (a) an upstream liner section fixedly connected in the combustor, (b) a downstream liner section fixedly connected in the combustor, and (c) a dilution liner section including a movable portion including at least a part of the dilution liner section and having at least one dilution opening therethrough. The movable portion is arranged to translate in an upstream direction and in a downstream direction. At least one actuator is connected to the movable portion of the dilution liner section and controls translational movement of the movable portion in the upstream direction and the downstream direction to adjust a volume of a primary combustion zone within the combustor.
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公开(公告)号:US20230220802A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US17717636
申请日:2022-04-11
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Michael T. Bucaro , Manampathy G. Giridharan , Pradeep Naik , Sripathi Mohan , Michael A. Benjamin , Steven C. Vise , Ajoy Patra , Perumallu Vukanti , R Narasimha Chiranthan
Abstract: A turbine engine and method of operation with a combustor as shown and described. The turbine engine including a combustor comprising an annular array of rich cups and an annular array of lean cups. A method for controlling nitrogen oxides including injecting a fuel/air mixture from the lean cups and the rich cups.
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