专利汇可以提供COMBUSTION PRE-CHAMBER专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A combustion pre-chamber including an upstream end and a downstream end is provided. The combustion pre-chamber includes a transition channel formed by a wall, the wall extending between the upstream end and the downstream end, and at least one flow trip arranged on the wall and tapering in height and width to the downstream end. Also provided are a burner assembly including a combustion pre-chamber, and a gas turbine engine.,下面是COMBUSTION PRE-CHAMBER专利的具体信息内容。
This application is the US National Stage of International Application No. PCT/EP2008/053653, filed Mar. 27, 2008 and claims the benefit thereof. The International Application claims the benefits of European Patent Office application No. 07006732.7 EP filed Mar. 30, 2007, both of the applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
The invention relates to a combustion pre-chamber, a burner assembly and a gas turbine engine.
Air pollution is a worldwide concern and many countries have enacted stricter laws further limiting the emission of pollutants from gas turbine engines or offer fiscal or other benefits for environmentally sound installations. Although the prior techniques for reducing the emissions of NOx from gas turbine engines are steps in the right direction, the need for additional improvements remains.
There are two main measures by which reduction of the temperature of the combustion flame can be achieved. The first is to use a fine distribution of fuel in the air, generating a fuel/air mixture with a low fuel fraction. The thermal mass of the excess air present in the reaction zone of a lean premixed combustor absorbs heat and limits the temperature rise of the products of combustion to a level where thermal NOx is not excessively formed. The second measure is to provide a thorough mixing of fuel and air prior to combustion. The better the mixing, the fewer regions exist where the fuel concentration is significantly higher than average, the fewer the regions reaching higher temperatures than average, the lower the fraction of thermal NOx will be.
Usually the premixing of fuel and air in a gas turbine engine takes place by injecting fuel into an air stream in a swirling zone of a combustor which is located upstream from the combustion zone. The swirling produces a mixing of fuel and air before the mixture enters the combustion zone.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,152,726 describes a burner, comprising an upstream rotation generator, a mixing section downstream from the upstream rotation generator, at least one transition channel and a mixing pipe downstream from the transition channels and at least one rotation generator on the mixing pipe end side.
Although this kind of burner provides good results with regard to good pollutant emissions, there is still space for improvements.
An object of the invention is to provide an improved combustion pre-chamber allowing for a better pre-mixing of gaseous fuel and compressor air to provide a homogeneous fuel/air mixture and thereby reduce formation of NOx. Another objective is to provide a burner assembly with an improved combustion pre-chamber. Still another objective is to provide a gas turbine engine with an improved burner.
These objectives are achieved by the claims. The dependent claims describe advantageous developments and modifications of the invention.
An inventive combustion pre-chamber comprises flow trips arranged on the wall of the pre-chamber to promote fuel/air mixing. The swirling flow inside the pre-chamber encounters these flow trips. The flow trips create vortices that are positioned on the leeward side of the flow trips and have axes parallel to the respective flow trip. This means the vortices will have “axes” extending towards the exit lip at the downstream end of the pre-chamber.
Ordinarily, flow trips would not be placed on the wall of a pre-chamber due to flashback risk. Flow trips, especially at the end of the pre-chamber, could generate flame attachment points onto the pre-chamber wall which in turn could lead to a burn through. The inventive pre-chamber therefore comprises flow trips tapering in height and width to the downstream end of the combustion pre-chamber since the flashback risk is mitigated by the reduction in the trip height to near zero at the exit lip at the downstream end of the pre-chamber. Since the flow trip height and width decreases towards the exit of the pre-chamber the associated vortex generation decreases too and so decreases the vortex near the pre-chamber exit lip, preventing a flame attaching to this vortex or ‘flashing back’ onto the vortex.
In an advantageous embodiment, the air flow around the pre-chamber, the pre-chamber being in the machine centre-casing plenum, can be used to still further mitigate the risk of flashback by injecting compressor air through effusion holes. Effusion holes can be arranged in the wall of the transition channel of the combustion pre-chamber and in the flow trips, respectively. They provide additional flashback protection by admitting air into the boundary layer to form a film on the wall of the pre-chamber boundary layer. In the film, the fuel air mixture is weakened to below the flammability limit.
It is particularly advantageous when effusion holes are arranged on the flow trip edge where they provide flashback protection where flashback is most likely to occur.
Additionally, the amount of air can be locally increased near potential flashback risk areas such as the trailing edge of a flow trip—by increasing the number of effusion holes in those locations.
Regarding injection openings in the transition channel and especially on the flow trips, various placements are possible. However, the back pressure on the fuel injection for a windward injection system might be unfavourable. It is therefore advantageous to have the fuel injection openings arranged on a leeward side of the flow trips to inject fuel downstream in the vortices created by the flow trip.
In a further advantageous embodiment, fuel injection will occur near the upstream end of the transition channel to inject the fuel into the upstream end of the vortex. Injecting further downstream increases the flashback risk.
It is particularly advantageous when the flow trips are perpendicular to the main flow efflux such that a flow trip edge follows a line defined by a main swirling flow efflux front near the pre-chamber wall. If, for example, the swirling flow traces a clockwise helical path around the pre-chamber, the flow trips would be arranged on the wall of the pre-chamber with an anti-clockwise helical orientation.
By such a design a better pre-mixing of fuel, especially gaseous fuel, with compressor air and a homogeneous fuel/air mixture is achieved to reduce formation of NOx.
The invention will now be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
In the drawings like references identify like or equivalent parts.
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