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US 8,689,559 B2Granted
Secondary combustion system for reducing the level of emissions generated by a turbomachine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsGilbert O. Kraemer, Jonathan D. Berry, Richard F. Keyser
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system of operating a combustion system that has Lean direct injection (LDI) functionality. The method and system provides a passive cooling system for an injector of the LDI system. The method and system may also provide a means to direct the flow of the fluid exiting the injector of the LDI system.
Claims7
A system for reducing a level of emissions generated by a turbomachine, the system comprising:
- the turbomachine comprising:
- an inlet section,
- a compressor section,
- a turbine section,
- a combustion system, wherein the combustion system comprises:
- a primary combustion system comprising a plurality of primary fuel nozzles for generating a stream of combustion products;
- a secondary combustion system located downstream of the primary combustion system;
- wherein the secondary combustion system comprises multiple injectors for delivering a fluid into the stream of combustion products, wherein each of the multiple injectors extends through and is spaced from a combustion system surface defining a combustion flow path establishing a first gap between the combustor surface and each of the multiple injectors;
- and
- a coolant flow concentrator extending through the first gap, the coolant flow concentrator establishing a second gap between the coolant flow concentrator and each of the multiple injectors,
- wherein an airstream exits the compressor section and flows to the primary fuel nozzles of the primary combustion system and to an injector end of each of the multiple injectors of the secondary combustion system, the injector end functioning as an air inlet of corresponding ones of each of the multiple injectors of the secondary combustion system, the injector end including one of a saw-tooth end, a bell-mouth end, a pedal end, and a castle end, a first portion of the air stream flowing into the injector end of each of the multiple injectors and a second portion of the airstream flowing through the first and second gaps the coolant flow concentrator concentrating the second portion of the airstream onto external surfaces of the multiple injectors and into the stream of combustion products to provide cooling to each of the multiple injectors.
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