Ultra compact combustor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsVenkat Eswarlu Tangirala, Narendra Digamber Joshi, Peter Daniel Silkowski
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Abstract
Embodiments of a combustor for a gas turbine engine are provided herein. In some embodiments, a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising may include a combustor having an inner volume defined at least partially by a front wall, wherein the wall comprises a plurality of facets each having a through hole fluidly coupled to the inner volume, and wherein the plurality of facets are oriented such that an axis of each of the plurality of facets is offset from a central axis of the combustor by an angle.
Claims20
A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprising:
- a combustion chamber having an inner volume defined at least partially by a front wall, wherein the front wall comprises a plurality of cylindrical or spherical bases each having a through hole fluidly coupled to the inner volume, and wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical or spherical bases is disposed within a collar that is coupled to the front wall;
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- an inlet guide vane coupled to each of the cylindrical or spherical bases and movable with respect to the front wall and the respective collar through at least one angle to accommodate for a changing direction in an air flow through the through hole.
A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprising:
- a combustion chamber having an inner volume defined at least partially by a front wall, wherein the front wall comprises a plurality of cylindrical or spherical bases each having a through hole fluidly coupled to the inner volume, and wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical or spherical bases is disposed within a collar that is coupled to the front wall;
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- an inlet guide vane disposed through each of the through holes of the cylindrical or spherical bases, wherein the inlet guide vane is movable with respect to the front wall via a respective one of the plurality of cylindrical or spherical bases, and wherein the inlet guide vane is movable mechanically via an actuator ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.