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US 2025/0362018 A1Published application
Turbine engine having a fuel nozzle including a curvilinear structure
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMarco Venturato, Brian M. Royer, Bernard Gustav Knolle, James Shealy
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Abstract
A turbine engine has a compression section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The combustion section has a wall and a fuel nozzle. The wall at least partially forms a combustion chamber and has a fuel nozzle opening. The fuel nozzle extends through the fuel nozzle opening. The fuel nozzle has a fuel nozzle body, and a set of fuel injection channels.
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A turbine engine comprising:
- a compression section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement, the combustion section comprising:
- a wall at least partially forming a combustion chamber, the wall having a fuel nozzle opening;
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- a fuel nozzle extending through the fuel nozzle opening, the fuel nozzle comprising:
- a fuel nozzle body having a centerline and a continuous curvilinear structure bounding an open interior, the open interior opening to the combustion chamber at an outlet, the continuous curvilinear structure terminating at a distal end and having a curvilinear centerline along the distal end that defines a form of an outer perimeter of the open interior;
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- a set of fuel injection channels provided within the fuel nozzle body and opening into the interior at a set of fuel injection orifices that are spaced axially about the fuel nozzle body relative to the curvilinear centerline;
- wherein the curvilinear centerline is in a form of a racetrack, an oval, or a star such that the form of the outer perimeter of the open interior is a racetrack, an oval, or a star, respectively.
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A turbine engine comprising:
- a compression section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement, the combustion section comprising:
- a wall at least partially forming a combustion chamber, the wall having a fuel nozzle opening;
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- a fuel nozzle extending through the fuel nozzle opening, the fuel nozzle comprising:
- a fuel nozzle body having a centerline and a continuous curvilinear structure bounding an open interior, the open interior opening to the combustion chamber at an outlet, the continuous curvilinear structure terminating at a distal end and having a curvilinear centerline-along the distal end;
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- a set of fuel injection channels provided within the fuel nozzle body and opening into the open interior at a set of fuel injection orifices that are spaced axially about the fuel nozzle body relative to the curvilinear centerline;
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- wherein the curvilinear centerline defines [is] a spiral formation disposed within a plane at the distal end of the continuous curvilinear structure and extending between a first circumferential end and a second circumferential end, wherein the first circumferential end is greater than 2π radians and less than or equal to 20π radians from the second circumferential end.
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