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US 9,958,162 B2Granted
Combustor assembly for a turbine engine
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsZhongtao Dai, Jeffrey M. Cohen, Kristin Kopp-Vaughan, James B. Hoke
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Abstract
A combustor assembly includes a first wall, a second wall, a bulkhead and a plurality of fuel injectors. The bulkhead forms a combustion chamber with the first and the second walls. The fuel injectors are configured with the first wall in a unique and/or a fluctuating pattern.
Claims4
An assembly for a turbine engine, the assembly comprising:
- an annular combustor with a combustion chamber extending circumferentially around and axially along a centerline;
- the annular combustor including a plurality of first fuel injectors and a plurality of second fuel injectors disposed about the centerline;
- wherein the first fuel injectors are adapted to inject fuel axially into the combustion chamber;
- wherein the second fuel injectors are adapted to unevenly inject fuel radially into the combustion chamber, a first adjacent pair of the second fuel injectors are circumferentially separated by a first distance, and a second adjacent pair of the second fuel injectors are circumferentially separated by a second distance that is different than the first distance;
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- wherein each of the second fuel injectors is circumferentially aligned with a respective one of the first fuel injectors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.