US 6,786,430 B2Granted

Liquid atomizing nozzle

AssigneeNational Aerospace Laboratory of Japan

InventorShigeru Hayashi

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Abstract

This invention provides a liquid atomizing nozzle which utilizes a swirling flow of gas to form a liquid film in as uniform thickness as possible in a circumferential direction, and in which blockages are difficult to develop, and which can facilitate atomization by further reducing the size of the droplets which disperse from the front end. A liquid injected into an annular space 7 through liquid passages 14 formed in an outer cylinder 2 in an incline to the radial direction, flows within the annular space 7 having a component swirling in the circumferential direction. Air which flows into the annular space 7 through air passages 10 formed inclined in the same direction as the liquid passages in the outer cylinder 2, develops a swirling flow Ac within the annular space 7, acts upon the injected liquid to spread it onto an inner wall 5 of the outer cylinder 2, and further improving the uniformity of the thickness of the liquid film in a circumferential direction. When the liquid film disperses from the front end edge 16 of the outer cylinder 2, atomization is facilitated and the size of the droplets may be reduced further.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A liquid atomizing nozzle, which comprises an outer member, and an inner member which is arranged within said outer member and forms an annular space which is open towards a front end side with said outer member;

and in which a liquid that has been injected into said annular space is atomized from the front end of said outer member,
wherein said outer member is provided with liquid passages inclined to the radial direction and for injecting said liquid into said annular space, at least one of said outer member and said inner member is provided with gas passages that are opening to said annular space and are inclined to the radial direction in order to swirl a gas in the same direction as the flow direction of said liquid that has been injected into said annular space, and said gas passages are open in said annular space in a position further to the back end side than the liquid passages are open in said annular space, when viewed in the direction of the axis line of said liquid atomizing nozzle;
wherein said outer member is a tapered outer cylinder in which the front end is thin walled, and said inner member is an inner cylinder disposed on the same axis as said outer cylinder and connected at the back end side and through the inside of which flows an air stream which atomizes said liquid at the front end of said annular space.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/345,956Filed 17 Jan 2003
Priority: JP 2002-01154621 Jan 2002
Published: US 2003/0141383 A131 Jul 2003
Granted: 7 Sep 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

F23C 7/004
The air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion: using vanes
F23D 11/107
Medium and fuel meeting at the burner outlet: at least one of both being subjected to a swirling motion
F23D 2900/11101
Special features of, or arrangements for burners using fluid fuels or solid fuels suspended in a carrier gas: pulverising gas flow impinging on…
F23C
Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or solid fuel suspended