High intensity slinger type combustor for turbine engines
AssigneeTeledyne Industries, Inc.
InventorDennis E. Barbeau
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Abstract
A rotating slinger fuel injector for turbine engines is provided with a plurality of radial holes for distributing and mixing fuel and air throughout the combustor. Fuel is supplied from a stationary fuel manifold through fuel ports in a rotating slinger which distributes the fuel in a plurality of planes throughout the combustor. Air is channeled from the compressor rotor through radially and axially angled air ports provided in the slinger so as to distribute air in a plurality of planes which intersect the planes of distributed fuel at various points throughout the interior combustor. Thus the combustion intensity and efficiency is greatly increased.
Claims6
A turbine engine having a support housing, a shaft rotatably secured within said support housing, an air compressor rotatably mounted in said housing and having an inlet and an outlet, a combustor in said housing, said combustor having a chamber fluidly connected with the outlet of the compressor, means for supplying fuel to the combustor chamber, said last-mentioned means comprising a slinger type fuel injector secured to said shaft having an annular housing and a plurality of radial bores adapted to provide a plurality of axially spaced planes of fuel and air introduction into said combustor chamber, a stationary fuel manifold spaced radially inwardly from said injector housing and in fluid communication with a first portion of said radial bores, and air passage means for fluidly connecting the outlet of the compressor to a second portion of said radial bores.
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