Turbine engine with combustor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnquan Wang, Hojjat Nasr, Craig Alan Gonyou, Michael Anthony Benjamin
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Abstract
A combustor assembly for a turbine engine and method for cooling a portion of the combustor assembly, the combustor assembly comprising a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber with an inlet and an outlet, a fuel dome located in the inlet and having a wall adjacent at least a portion of the combustor liner, and a deflector overlying and spaced from at least a portion of the wall.
Claims20
A combustor assembly for a turbine engine, the combustor assembly comprising:
- a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber with an inlet and an outlet;
- a fuel dome located in the inlet and having a wall adjacent at least a portion of the combustor liner;
- a deflector overlying and spaced from at least a portion of the wall and the combustor liner to define a deflector chamber opening onto the combustor liner;
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- at least one cooling opening provided in the wall and opening into the deflector chamber.
A turbine engine comprising:
- an engine core having a compressor, a combustor assembly, and a turbine, arranged in a serial, axial flow relationship;
- a combustor liner at least partially defining the combustor assembly and having a combustion chamber with an inlet and an outlet;
- a fuel dome located in the inlet and having a wall adjacent at least a portion of the combustor liner;
- a deflector overlying and spaced from at least a portion of the wall and the combustor liner to define a deflector chamber opening onto the combustor liner;
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- at least one cooling opening provided in the wall and opening into the deflector chamber.
A method of cooling an inner surface of a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber supplied fuel by a fuel dome, the method comprising:
- emitting cooling air into the combustion chamber from a cooling opening formed in the fuel dome;
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- deflecting the emitted cooling air along the inner surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.