# US 10,371,385 B2 · Sequential burner for an axial gas turbine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,371,385 B2 - Document ID: US10371385B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/955,560 - Filed: 2015-12-01 - Published: 2016-06-09 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-12-04 - Assignees: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG - Applicants: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG - Inventors: Urs Benz; Andrea Ciani - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10371385B2 ## CPC - F23R 3/286: {having fuel-air premixing devices (F23R3/30 takes precedence)} - F23R 3/20: incorporating fuel injection means - F23R 3/283: {Attaching or cooling of fuel injecting means including supports for fuel injectors, stems, or lances} - F23R 3/346: {for staged combustion} - F23R 3/60: Support structures; Attaching or mounting means - F23R 2900/00018: Manufacturing combustion chamber liners or subparts - F23R 2900/03341: Sequential combustion chambers or burners - 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) ## Abstract A sequential burner for an axial gas turbine comprises: a burner body, which is designed as an axially extending hot gas channel and further comprises a fuel injection device, which extends into said burner body perpendicular to the axial direction. The manufacturing of the burner body is simplified and the fuel injection is stabilized by designing said fuel injection device as a mechanically stiff component, and fixing said fuel injection device to said burner body in order to keep it aligned with said burner body and to stiffen said burner body against creep. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A sequential burner for an axial gas turbine, comprising: a burner body, which is configured as an axially extending hot gas channel; and a fuel injection device extending into said burner body perpendicular to an axial direction, wherein said fuel injection device is fixed to said burner body to keep the fuel injection device aligned with said burner body and to stiffen said burner body against creep; wherein said fuel injection device is an injection head including: a plurality of fingers arranged in the axially extending hot gas channel and extending parallel to each other and perpendicular to the axial direction between an upper end plate and a lower end plate, and that said upper end plate is fixed to an outer wall of said burner body, whereby said lower end plate is flush with an interior of an inner wall of said burner body and that said injection head sits in said burner body with the upper end plate flush with an interior wall of the outer wall, wherein a burner flange is provided in said outer wall of said burner body, and said upper end plate is fixed to said burner flange by a plurality of inserts configured to slide circumferentially, wherein said upper and lower end plates of said injection head and said burner flange are circular, and said upper end plate is fixed to said burner flange by the plurality of the inserts distributed along a circumference of said burner flange and a circumference of said upper end plate, respectively, wherein each of said plurality of inserts is fixed to said burner flange by a fixing lug, and each of said plurality of inserts has a foot, which meshes on one side with a circumferential groove at said burner flange and on an opposite side with a plurality of hooks distributed along the circumference of said upper end plate. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein there is a gap provided within the plurality of hooks for introducing each of the plurality of inserts and sliding each of the plurality of inserts from said gap to a final position along a circumferential path. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of fingers is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile, whereby said streamlined body has two lateral surfaces parallel to a flow direction of hot gas passing through said burner body, whereby said lateral surfaces are joined at their upstream side by a leading edge and at their downstream side forming a trailing edge, and whereby a plurality of nozzles for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air is distributed along said trailing edge. ### Claim 4 A sequential burner for an axial gas turbine, comprising: a burner body, which is configured as an axially extending hot gas channel within a combustion chamber of the axial gas turbine; and a fuel injection device extending into said burner body perpendicular to an axial direction, wherein said fuel injection device is fixed to said burner body to keep the fuel injection device aligned with said burner body and to stiffen said burner body against creep; wherein said fuel injection device is an injection head including: a plurality of fingers arranged in the axially extending hot gas channel and extending parallel to each other and perpendicular to the axial direction between an upper end plate and a lower end plate, and that said upper end plate is fixed to an outer wall of said burner body, whereby said lower end plate is flush with an interior of an inner wall of said burner body and that said injection head sits in said burner body with the upper end plate flush with an interior wall of the outer wall, wherein said upper and lower end plates of said injection head and said burner flange are non-circular with two parallel longitudinal sides, and said upper end plate is fixed to said burner flange by two straight inserts inserted between the two parallel longitudinal sides of the upper end plate. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 4, wherein each of said two straight inserts meshes on one side with a slotted outer rail at said two parallel longitudinal sides of said burner flange and on an opposite side with a slotted inner rail at said two parallel longitudinal sides of said upper end plate. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 4, wherein each of said plurality of fingers is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile, whereby said streamlined body has two lateral surfaces parallel to a flow direction of hot gas passing through said burner body, whereby said lateral surfaces are joined at their upstream side by a leading edge and at their downstream side forming a trailing edge, and whereby a plurality of nozzles for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air is distributed along said trailing edge. ### Claim 7 A sequential burner for an axial gas turbine, comprising: a burner body, which is configured as an axially extending hot gas channel within a combustion chamber of the axial gas turbine; and a fuel injection device extending into said burner body perpendicular to an axial direction, wherein said fuel injection device is fixed to said burner body to keep the fuel injection device aligned with said burner body and to stiffen said burner body against creep; wherein said fuel injection device is an injection head including: a plurality of fingers arranged in the axially extending hot gas channel and extending parallel to each other and perpendicular to the axial direction between an upper end plate and a lower end plate, and that said upper end plate is fixed to an outer wall of said burner body, whereby said lower end plate is flush with an interior of an inner wall of said burner body and that said injection head sits in said burner body with the upper end plate flush with an interior wall of the outer wall, wherein said upper and lower end plates of said injection head and said burner flange are non-circular with two parallel longitudinal sides, and that said upper end plate is fixed to said burner flange by two straight wedges inserted at said two parallel longitudinal sides. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of said two straight wedges meshes on one side with a slotted outer rail at said two parallel longitudinal sides of said burner flange and on the opposite side with a slotted inner rail at said two parallel longitudinal sides of said upper end plate. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The sequential burner as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of said plurality of fingers is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile, whereby said streamlined body has two lateral surfaces parallel to a flow direction of hot gas passing through said burner body, whereby said lateral surfaces are joined at their upstream side by a leading edge and at their downstream side forming a trailing edge, and whereby a plurality of nozzles for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air is distributed along said trailing edge.