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Combustor oscillation attenuation via the control of fuel-supply line dynamics

Patent ·
OSTI ID:871848

Combustion oscillation control in combustion systems using hydrocarbon fuels is provided by acoustically tuning a fuel-delivery line to a desired phase of the combustion oscillations for providing a pulse of a fuel-rich region at the oscillating flame front at each time when the oscillation produced pressure in the combustion chamber is in a low pressure phase. The additional heat release produced by burning such fuel-rich regions during low combustion chamber pressure effectively attenuates the combustion oscillations to a selected value.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
Patent Number(s):
US 5809769
OSTI ID:
871848
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Convective Heat Transfer in a Gas-Fired Pulsating Combustor journal January 1969