Loading parameters
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12123362B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US18225427

    申请日:2023-07-24

    申请人: ROLLS-ROYCE plc

    IPC分类号: F02C9/40 F02C9/28 F23R3/34

    摘要: An aircraft has first and second fuel sources containing fuels with different characteristics, and one or more gas turbine engines powered by the fuels and each having a staged combustion system having pilot and main fuel injectors and being operable in pilot-only and pilot-and-main ranges of operation. The gas turbine engines each have a fuel delivery regulator arranged to control fuel delivery to the pilot and main fuel injectors. The method includes: obtaining a proposed mission description; obtaining nvPM impact parameters for the gas turbine engines, the impact parameters being associated with each operating condition of the proposed mission; calculating an optimised set of one or more fuel characteristics for each flight condition of the proposed flight defined in the flight description based on the nvPM impact parameters; and determining a fuel allocation based on the optimised set of one or more fuel characteristics.

    MODULATING FLUID FLOW WITHIN A TURBINE ENGINE USING STEAM

    公开(公告)号:US20240309806A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18120821

    申请日:2023-03-13

    发明人: Gregory Boardman

    IPC分类号: F02C3/30

    摘要: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a combustor and an injection system. The combustor includes a combustion chamber. The injection system includes an injector. The injection system is configured to direct fluid and steam into the combustion chamber through the injector. The injection system is configured to modulate a flow of the fluid into the combustion chamber through the injector by regulating a flow of the steam into the combustion chamber through the injector.

    Engine system and method of operating the same

    公开(公告)号:US12031493B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-09

    申请号:US18162949

    申请日:2023-02-01

    申请人: ROLLS-ROYCE plc

    发明人: Peter Swann

    IPC分类号: F02C9/40 F02C7/22

    摘要: A system has first and second fuel stores for first and second fuels, an engine, a fuel distribution system, first and second flow rates of the fuel contributing to a total flow rate of fuel; and a controller for controlling the relative fractions of the total flow rate of fuel to the engine according to the required power output of the engine such that the relative fraction of the total flow rate of fuel to the engine represented by the second flow rate increases with increasing required power output of the engine. The fuels are selected such that using only the second fuel results in a lower engine temperature than using only the first fuel, for the same mechanical power and/or the second fuel has a lower specific energy than the first and/or the second fuel produces more water during combustion than the first fuel per unit of fuel energy.

    Staged combustion
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11821373B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US18053124

    申请日:2022-11-07

    申请人: ROLLS-ROYCE plc

    摘要: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The gas turbine comprises a staged combustion system having pilot injectors and main injectors, a fuel metering system configured to control fuel flow to the pilot injectors and the main injectors, and a fuel system controller. The controller is configured to identify an atmospheric condition, determine a ratio of pilot fuel flow rate for the pilot injectors to main fuel flow rate for the main injectors in response to the atmospheric condition, and inject fuel by the pilot injectors and the main injectors in accordance with said ratio to control an index of soot emissions caused by combustion of fuel therein.

    Systems and methods for optimizing stoichiometric combustion

    公开(公告)号:US09903279B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-27

    申请号:US13805646

    申请日:2011-06-27

    摘要: Provided are more efficient techniques for operating gas turbine systems. In one embodiment a gas turbine system comprises an oxidant system, a fuel system, a control system, and a number of combustors adapted to receive and combust an oxidant from the oxidant system and a fuel from the fuel system to produce an exhaust gas. The gas turbine system also includes a number of oxidant-flow adjustment devices, each of which are operatively associated with one of the combustors, wherein an oxidant-flow adjustment device is configured to independently regulate an oxidant flow rate into the associated combustor. An exhaust sensor is in communication with the control system. The exhaust sensor is adapted to measure at least one parameter of the exhaust gas, and the control system is configured to independently adjust each of the oxidant-flow adjustment devices based, at least in part, on the parameter measured by the exhaust sensor.

    Valve for a fuel injector
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09851106B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-26

    申请号:US15125475

    申请日:2015-03-25

    摘要: A fuel injector for injecting fuel in a burner of a gas turbine where the fuel injector has a body with an inner hole and a valve element which is slideably arranged inside the inner hole. The body has a fuel inlet which is formed into the body for injecting fuel into the inner hole, wherein the fuel inlet is coupleable to a fuel supply line. The body further has a first outlet channel connected to the inner hole, wherein the first outlet channel is further coupleable to a burner. The valve element has a first passage which is formed such that in a first position of the valve element inside the inner hole, the first passage connects the fuel inlet with the first outlet channel and in a second position of the valve element inside the inner hole.