Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Combustion products generator
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-01
2010-11-30
Cuff, Michael (Department: 3741)
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Combustion products generator
C060S737000, C060S746000, C138S039000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07841182
ABSTRACT:
An improved gas turbine combustor (20) including a basket (26) and a multiplicity of micro openings (29) arrayed across an inlet wall (27) for passage of a fuel/air mixture for ignition within the combustor. The openings preferably have a diameter on the order of the quenching diameter; i.e. the port diameter for which the flame is self-extinguishing, which is a function of the fuel mixture, temperature and pressure. The basket may have a curved rectangular shape that approximates the shape of the curved rectangular shape of the intake manifolds of the turbine.
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Cuff Michael
Kim Craig
Siemens Energy Inc.
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