Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Combined with regulation of power output feature
Patent
1992-03-30
1993-08-31
Bertsch, Richard A.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Combined with regulation of power output feature
60737, F02C 300, F23R 316
Patent
active
052398188
ABSTRACT:
An annular combustor includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially extending dilution poles disposed in an intermediate zone thereof between a forward combustion zone and an aft combustion zone. Adjacent ones of the dilution poles define therebetween a throat for receiving the combustion gases from the forward zone. The dilution poles include circumferentially facing dilution holes for injecting dilution air into the throats for mixing with the combustion gases being channeled therethrough. The dilution poles are effective for blocking the combustion gases at a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart locations and accelerating the combustion gases through the throats for reducing residence time in the throat. The dilution air is injected through the dilution holes for improved penetration into the combustion gases in the throats for mixing therewith to form lean combustion gases which undergo final combustion in the aft zone for reducing NO.sub.x emissions.
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Cook George E.
Dodds Willard J.
Loconti Craig L.
MacHolloway Gary
Sabla Paul E.
Bertsch Richard A.
Davidson James P.
General Electric Company
Squillaro Jerome C.
Thorpe Timothy S.
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