# US 10,371,057 B2 · Fuel injector device

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- Number: US 10,371,057 B2
- Document ID: US10371057B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/084,177
- Filed: 2016-03-29
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2015-03-30
- Assignees: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG
- Applicants: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG
- Inventors: Kaspar Loeffel; Andre Theuer; Nico Biagioli; Alexey Stytsenko; Sergey Mylnikov; Igor Baibuzenko
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10371057B2

## CPC

- F02C 7/22: Fuel supply systems
- F23R 3/20: incorporating fuel injection means
- F05D 2250/184: sinusoidal
- F23C 2900/07001: Air swirling vanes incorporating fuel injectors
- F23R 2900/00018: Manufacturing combustion chamber liners or subparts
- F02C: GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B11/00)
- F23R: GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS (fluidised bed combustion apparatus specially adapted for operation at superatmospheric pressures F23C10/16)
- F05D: INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
- F23C: METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN {A CARRIER GAS OR} AIR (burners F23D)

## Abstract

Disclosed is a fuel injector device having a body with a leading edge and a trailing edge and defining a streamwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge, the fuel injector device body having a first wall and a second wall opposite the first wall, each wall extending between and including the leading edge and the trailing edge and the walls conjoining each other at the leading edge and the trailing edge, each wall having a streamwise extent and a crosswise extent, the walls further enclosing an internal space, at least one fluid plenum being provided within the internal space, the fluid plenum at least at one of an upstream end and/or a downstream end being delimited by an internal wall structure, wherein at least one surface of the wall structure is an inclined surface which forms an angle with the streamwise direction which is smaller than or equal to a maximum angle, wherein the maximum angle is 60°.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A fuel injector device comprising:
a body, said body having a leading edge and a trailing edge and defining a streamwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge, the body of the fuel infector having a first wall and a second wall opposite the first wall, the first wall and the second wall extending between and including the leading edge and the trailing edge and said first wall and said second wall conjoining each other at the leading edge and the trailing edge,
both the first wall and the second wall having a streamwise extent and a crosswise extent,
said first wall and said second wall enclosing an internal space, and
at least one fluid plenum being provided within the internal space, the fluid plenum having at least at one of an upstream end and/or a downstream end being delimited by an internal wall structure, wherein the at least one fluid plenum comprises:
a cooling air plenum, the cooling air plenum being delimited at a downstream end by a pair of first internal walls of the internal wall structure,
a carrier air plenum, the carrier air plenum being delimited at an upstream end by the pair of first internal walls and being delimited at a downstream end by a pair of second internal walls of the internal wall structure, and
a first fuel plenum, the first fuel plenum being delimited at an upstream end by the pair of second internal walls,
wherein the pair of first internal walls and the pair of second internal walls, each form an apex wherein an angle between each wall of the pair of first internal walls and between each wall of the pair of second internal walls is smaller than or equal to 120°.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, wherein each of an upstream surface and a downstream surface of the pair of first internal walls and each of an upstream surface and a downstream surface of the pair of second internal walls form an apex wherein an angle between each pair of first upstream surfaces and each pair of first downstream surfaces of the pair of first internal walls and between each pair of second upstream surfaces and each pair of second downstream surfaces of the pair of second internal walls is smaller than or equal to 120°.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, wherein each of the first pair of internal walls and the second pair of internal walls respectively meet each other and are joined by a transition surface, wherein the transition surface is rounded.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, comprising:
a second fuel plenum, wherein the first fuel plenum is delimited at a downstream end by a pair of third internal walls and the second fuel plenum is delimited at an upstream end by the pair of third internal walls,
wherein upstream surfaces of the pair of third internal walls and/or downstream surfaces of the pair of third internal walls are inclined surfaces.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The fuel injector device according to claim 4, wherein the first fuel plenum and the second fuel plenum are enclosed by a fuel plenum shell, an upstream end of the fuel plenum shell being provided as the pair of first internal walls, wherein the fuel plenum shell is provided within the internal space and is supported by struts, said struts connecting the fuel plenum shell and the pair of first internal walls.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, wherein the trailing edge undulates.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, wherein the fuel injector is a seamless one-piece device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, configured by additive manufacturing of selective laser melting and selective electron beam melting.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

A combustor, comprising:
the fuel injector device according to claim 1.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

A gas turbine comprising:
the combustor according to claim 9, wherein the gas turbine is a sequential combustion gas turbine engine and the combustor is a subsequent combustor arranged to be supplied with partly expanded flue gas from a turbine.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The fuel injection device according to claim 1, wherein the first fuel plenum is a tubular member placed to extend in a crosswise direction within a second fuel plenum.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The fuel injector device according to claim 1, wherein the angle between each wall of the first pair of internal walls and each wall of the second pair of internal walls is greater than or equal to 80°.