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公开(公告)号:US20240384873A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-21
申请号:US18789124
申请日:2024-07-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Gregory Allen Boardman , Michael Anthony Benjamin , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Joseph Zelina , Eric John Stevens
Abstract: Various embodiments include a trapped vortex combustor and a method for operating trapped vortex combustor. In one embodiment, the trapped vortex combustor comprises a trapped vortex combustion zone and at least one secondary combustion zone disposed downstream of the trapped vortex combustion zone. The trapped vortex combustion zone is operable to receive and combust a first fuel and a first air and produce a first combustion product flowing toroidally therein. The at least one secondary combustion zone is operable to receive and combust the first combustion product and at least one second injection consisting of fuel and/or air and produce at least one second combustion product therein. The combustor may reduce the residence time of the highest temperature combustion products and achieve the lower NOx emission.
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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:US20220373181A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-24
申请号:US17325938
申请日:2021-05-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Joseph Zelina , Clayton S. Cooper , Michael T. Bucaro , Steven C. Vise , John Thomas Herbon
Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine is provided, the combustor includes an outer liner, an inner liner and a dome that together define a combustion chamber; a diffuser positioned upstream of the combustion chamber, the diffuser being configured to receive air flow from a compressor section and to provide a flow of compressed air to the combustion chamber; and an outer cowl and an inner cowl located upstream of the combustion chamber, the outer cowl and the inner cowl being configured to direct a portion of air flow from the diffuser to the combustion chamber. The diffuser is configured to output air flow having an amount of air pressure maximized at a center of the air flow so as to optimize total air pressure fed to the combustion chamber through the dome.
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公开(公告)号:US11473780B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-18
申请号:US15904991
申请日:2018-02-26
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Sibtosh Pal , Steven Clayton Vise , Arthur Wesley Johnson , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Joseph Zelina
Abstract: A Brayton cycle engine and method for operation. The engine includes an inner wall assembly and an upstream wall assembly each extended from a longitudinal wall into a gas flowpath. An actuator adjusts a depth of the detonation combustion region into the gas flowpath between the inner wall assembly and the upstream wall assembly. The engine flows an oxidizer through the gas flowpath and the inner wall captures a portion of the oxidizer. The engine further adjusts the captured flow of oxidizer via the upstream wall and flows a first flow of fuel to the captured flow of oxidizer to produce rotating detonation gases. The engine flows the detonation gases downstream and to mix with the flow of oxidizer, and flows and burns a second flow of fuel to the detonation gases/oxidizer mixture to produce thrust.
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公开(公告)号:US11359578B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-14
申请号:US16055313
申请日:2018-08-06
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Sibtosh Pal , Steven Clayton Vise , Arthur Wesley Johnson , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Joseph Zelina
Abstract: A ramjet engine and system and method for operation is generally provided. The ramjet includes a longitudinal wall extended along a lengthwise direction. The longitudinal wall defines an inlet section, a combustion section, and an exhaust section. A fuel nozzle assembly is extended from the longitudinal wall. The fuel nozzle assembly defines a nozzle throat area. The fuel nozzle assembly is moveable along a radial direction to adjust the nozzle throat area based at least on a difference in pressure of a flow of fluid at an inlet of the inlet section and a pressure of the flow of fluid at the fuel nozzle assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US10976053B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-13
申请号:US15793129
申请日:2017-10-25
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Gregory Allen Boardman , Pradeep Naik , Joseph Zelina , Clayton Stuart Cooper
Abstract: A combustor assembly includes a volute wall extended annularly around a combustor centerline, extended at least partially as a spiral curve from a circumferential reference line around the combustor centerline, and defining a combustion chamber therewithin, an annular inner wall extended at least partially along a lengthwise direction from the volute wall, an annular outer wall extended at least partially along the lengthwise direction from the volute wall, the annular inner wall and the annular outer wall being separated along a radial direction from the combustor centerline, and a primary flow passage being defined between the annular inner wall and the annular outer wall in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, and a flow passage wall extending between a portion of the volute wall and a portion of the annular outer wall.
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公开(公告)号:US10976052B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-13
申请号:US15793104
申请日:2017-10-25
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Gregory Allen Boardman , Pradeep Naik , Joseph Zelina , Clayton Stuart Cooper
Abstract: A combustor assembly is generally provided. The combustor assembly includes a volute wall extended annularly around a combustor centerline. The volute wall is extended at least partially as a spiral curve from a circumferential reference line around the combustor centerline. The volute wall defines a combustion chamber therewithin. An annular inner wall is extended at least partially along a lengthwise direction from the volute wall. An annular outer wall is extended at least partially along the lengthwise direction from the volute wall. The inner wall and the outer wall are each separated along a radial direction from the combustor centerline. A primary flow passage is defined between the inner wall and the outer wall in fluid communication from the combustion chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US20190264920A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-29
申请号:US15904991
申请日:2018-02-26
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Sibtosh Pal , Steven Clayton Vise , Arthur Wesley Johnson , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Joseph Zelina
Abstract: A Brayton cycle engine and method for operation. The engine includes an inner wall assembly and an upstream wall assembly each extended from a longitudinal wall into a gas flowpath. An actuator adjusts a depth of the detonation combustion region into the gas flowpath between the inner wall assembly and the upstream wall assembly. The engine flows an oxidizer through the gas flowpath and the inner wall captures a portion of the oxidizer. The engine further adjusts the captured flow of oxidizer via the upstream wall and flows a first flow of fuel to the captured flow of oxidizer to produce rotating detonation gases. The engine flows the detonation gases downstream and to mix with the flow of oxidizer, and flows and burns a second flow of fuel to the detonation gases/oxidizer mixture to produce thrust.
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公开(公告)号:US20190113235A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-18
申请号:US15785726
申请日:2017-10-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Arthur Wesley Johnson , Joseph Zelina , Eric John Stevens , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Beverly Stephenson Duncan , Juntao Zhang
CPC classification number: F23R3/58 , F01D25/00 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2240/36 , F23R3/04 , F23R3/12 , F23R3/14 , F23R3/18 , F23R3/50 , F23R2900/00015
Abstract: A trapped vortex combustor for use in a gas turbine engine defines a radial direction, an axial direction, and a circumferential direction. The trapped vortex combustor includes an outer vortex chamber wall defining a forward end, and a dome attached to, or formed integrally with, the outer vortex chamber wall at the forward end of the outer vortex chamber wall. The dome and outer vortex chamber wall define at least in part a combustion chamber having an outer trapped vortex chamber. The dome includes an air chute defining an airflow direction. The radial direction and axial direction of the trapped vortex combustor define a reference plane extending through the air chute, the airflow direction of the air chute defining an angle greater than zero with the reference plane.
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公开(公告)号:US20180356096A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-13
申请号:US15618637
申请日:2017-06-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Sibtosh Pal , Joseph Zelina , Arthur Wesley Johnson , Clayton Stuart Cooper , Steven Clayton Vise
Abstract: A method and system of effervescent atomization of liquid fuel for a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) for a propulsion system is provided. The method includes flowing liquid fuel through a fuel injection port of a nozzle assembly of the RDC system; flowing a gas through the fuel injection port of the nozzle assembly volumetrically proportional to the liquid fuel; producing a gas-liquid fuel mixture at the fuel injection port by mixing the flow of gas and the flow of liquid fuel; flowing an oxidizer through a nozzle flowpath of the RDC system; producing an oxidizer-gas-liquid fuel mixture by mixing the gas-liquid fuel mixture and the flow of oxidizer within the nozzle flowpath; and igniting the oxidizer-gas-liquid fuel mixture within a combustion chamber of the RDC system.
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