US 7,673,454 B2Granted

Combustor of gas turbine and combustion control method for gas turbine

AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

InventorsKeijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Atsushi Yuasa, Toshihiko Saito

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Abstract

In a combustor, divisional fluid passages of a first group, and divisional fluid passages of a second group are present on an inner peripheral side, and divisional fluid passages are also present on an outer peripheral side, and swirl air flows are gushed from the divisional fluid passages. When the total amount of fuel supplied to the combustor is small as in a speed increasing state or in a low load state, fuel is injected only into the divisional fluid passages of the first group. Since a fuel injection region is limited to a position on the inner peripheral side, particularly, a specific position, the concentration of a fuel gas comprising a mixture of fuel and air is lean, but is higher than a flammability limit concentration, even when the total amount of fuel is small.

A combustor of a gas turbine, the combustor comprising an inner tube and a transition pipe connected together, wherein

an internal swirler comprising a cylindrical internal swirler ring disposed concentrically with respect to a central axis of the inner tube, and a plurality of internal swirler vanes provided on an outer peripheral surface of the internal swirler ring, and
an external swirler comprising a cylindrical internal swirler ring disposed on an outer peripheral side of the internal swirler vanes and concentrically with respect to the internal swirler ring, and a plurality of external swirler vanes provided on an outer peripheral surface of the external swirler ring are arranged inside the inner tube to form
internal divisional fluid passages defined by the internal swirler ring, the external swirler ring, and the plurality of the internal swirler vanes, and
external divisional fluid passages defined by the external swirler ring, the inner tube, and the plurality of the external swirler vanes,
the internal divisional fluid passages are divided into a first group consisting of a plurality of the divisional fluid passages arranged sequentially in a circumferential direction, and a second group consisting of a plurality of the divisional fluid passages arranged sequentially in the circumferential direction,
a fuel injection hole for injecting fuel into the internal divisional fluid passages is formed in a vane surface of each of the internal swirler vanes, and
a fuel injection hole for injecting fuel into the external divisional fluid passages is formed in a vane surface of each of the external swirler vanes, and the combustor further comprising
first fuel supply means for supplying fuel to fuel injection holes facing the internal divisional fluid passages of the first group among the fuel injection holes formed in the internal swirler vanes,
second fuel supply means for supplying fuel to fuel injection holes facing the internal divisional fluid passages of the second group among the fuel injection holes formed in the internal swirler vanes, and
third fuel supply means for supplying fuel to fuel injection holes formed in the external swirler vanes.

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