Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid
Patent
1993-06-23
1994-11-29
Thorpe, Timothy S.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
60 39821, F02C 7264, F23Q 1300
Patent
active
053678699
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for igniting fuel in a combustor having at least one fuel nozzle that emits an atomized fuel spray into a primary zone of the combustion chamber comprising a laser energy source for producing infrared laser energy and optic fiber means for transmitting the laser energy from the laser source into the primary zone of the combustor to ignite the fuel spray. In one embodiment the laser igniter is disposed in a main fuel nozzle of the combustor.
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Lewis Leonard L.
Simmonds Precision Engine Systems
Thorpe Timothy S.
Zielli William E.
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