Electric motor assisted airblast injector

An airblast injector assembly, comprising:

• an electric motor having a rotating shaft;
• a compressor that generates a pressurized airstream according to a rotation speed of the rotating shaft;
• and,
• an airblast injector comprising:
• a fuel swirler generating a fuel spray cone having a spray cone angle;
• a swirler cup having an inner surface having a shape of a part of a cone and positioned to accept the fuel spray cone, where said swirler cup includes a plurality of air exiting orifices which accept said pressurized airstream and are positioned annularly around said inner surface at a swirler location diameter, the plurality of air exiting orifices directing said airstream towards the fuel spray cone, the plurality of air exiting orifices having a down angle and a back angle relative to a line that is perpendicular to said fuel spray cone;
• and,
• an outlet defining a fuel exiting orifice;
• and,
• a combustor dome, the outlet defining the fuel exiting orifice connecting the fuel swirler to the combustor dome,
• wherein the swirler cup is positioned upstream from the combustor dome.