Mixer for a combustor
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsDavid Allen Kastrup, Marie Ann McMasters
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Abstract
A mixer having a unitary construction is disclosed comprising an annular housing having an axis and at least a first swirler having a plurality of vanes arranged circumferentially around the axis such that circumferentially adjacent vanes form at least one flow passage that is oriented at least partially in an axial direction with respect to the axis. In another exemplary embodiment, a mixer having a unitary construction is disclosed comprising a swirler having a plurality of radial vanes arranged circumferentially around the axis and oriented at least partially in a radial direction.
Claims8
A unitary mixer comprising:
- an annular housing having an axis;
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- at least a first swirler having a plurality of vanes arranged circumferentially around the axis such that circumferentially adjacent vanes form at least one flow passage that is oriented at least partially in an axial direction with respect to the axis, wherein at least one of the flow passages is converging in a flow direction, and wherein at least one of the flow passages is diverging or has a substantially constant width in a flow direction, and wherein at least one of the flow passages that is converging is circumferentially adjacent to at least one of the flow passages that is diverging, wherein the individual vanes forming the flow passages have different vane thickness variations from each other in the axial direction;
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- a mount system for mounting the unitary mixer in a gas turbine engine combustor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.