Abstract:
A low emission combustion chamber in which vitiated products of combustion from a pilot burner are caused to swirl about the combustion chamber axis before fuel droplets are introduced into the vitiated, swirling combustion products for flash vaporization therein to produce a vaporized, swirling, vitiated fuel-air mixture so as to effect ignition lag until swirling combustion air can be mixed with the swirling mixture to molecularly premix the fuel and air and increase its oxygen content to reduce the ignition lag to effect autoignition at an equivalence ratio less than 1 so as to effect high-rate, lean burning in the primary combustion chamber.
Abstract:
A burner construction for low emission burners in which the primary fuel is injected with air in an annulus into the upstream end of the burners so as to cause a significant recirculation of the fuel and air mixture adjacent to the end cap, the secondary fuel is injected into the burner in a small angle spray at a point substantially spaced from the end cap and large combustion and/or dilution holes in the burner wall a small distance upstream of the secondary nozzle are sized to produce an additional recirculation in the primary fuel and air around the secondary nozzle with this additional recirculation in the direction opposite to the first recirculation.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system for low emission burners in which the primary fuel is delivered in an annular spray into the primary combustion zone; at high power operation, secondary fuel is injected additionally in a low angle axial spray to penetrate beyond the primary zone and into the secondary combustion zone downstream of the primary zone.
Abstract:
In a two stage burner construction in which primary fuel burns in an annulus in a primary combustion zone and secondary fuel is discharged through the primary zone to a secondary zone downstream of the primary zone, vortex generators are used in the passage through which the fuel and air entering the primary zone to enhance the mixing and to improve the toroidal flow in the combustion zone. Other vortex generators are used to improve the mixing of the secondary fuel and air to improve secondary combustion. The vortex generators may be used in conjunction with a trip on the secondary nozzle tube to further enhance primary combustion.
Abstract:
An augmenter construction for fan engines in which the fan air and the engine gas are distributed through transition ducts terminating in vortex generators and the fuel rich pilot gas discharges around these vortex generators to mix with the vortices for improved combustion. The transition tubes have diffuser sections extending from the vortex generators and these sections have rectangular or multisided terminal ends.
Abstract:
A low emission combustion chamber in which vitiated products of combustion from a pilot burner are caused to swirl about the combustion chamber axis before fuel droplets are introduced into the vitiated, swirling combustion products for flash vaporization therein to produce a vaporized, swirling, vitiated fuel-air mixture so as to effect ignition lag until swirling combustion air can be mixed with the swirling mixture to molecularly premix the fuel and air and increase its oxygen content to reduce the ignition lag to effect autoignition at an equivalence ratio less than 1 so as to effect high-rate, lean burning in the primary combustion chamber.
Abstract:
An improved swirler assembly prevents flow separation in the diffuser secn. An annular swirling layer of air surrounds a linear jet with mixing occurring between these air flows prior to the diffuser section. A center tube through the swirler section provides the linear jet which mixes with the swirler flow in a mixing area prior to the diffuser section.
Abstract:
An augmenter construction for fan engines in which the fan air and engine gas are distributed through transition ducts terminating in vortex generators and the fuel rich pilot gas discharges into diffusers downstream of the vortex generators to mix with the vortices within the diffusers for improved combustion.
Abstract:
A low emission combustion chamber in which vitiated products of combustion from a pilot burner are caused to swirl about the combustion chamber axis before fuel droplets are introduced into the vitiated, swirling combustion products for flash vaporization therein to produce a vaporized, swirling, vitiated fuel-air mixture so as to effect ignition lag until swirling combustion air can be mixed with the swirling mixture to molecularly premix the fuel and air and increase its oxygen content to reduce the ignition lag to effect autoignition at an equivalence ratio less than 1 so as to effect high-rate, lean burning in the primary combustion chamber.