Multi-tube fuel nozzle with mixing features

Hughes, Michael John

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Title: Multi-tube fuel nozzle with mixing features

Abstract

A system includes a multi-tube fuel nozzle having an inlet plate and a plurality of tubes adjacent the inlet plate. The inlet plate includes a plurality of apertures, and each aperture includes an inlet feature. Each tube of the plurality of tubes is coupled to an aperture of the plurality of apertures. The multi-tube fuel nozzle includes a differential configuration of inlet features among the plurality of tubes.

Inventors:: Hughes, Michael John

Issue Date:: 2014-04-22

Research Org.:: General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1129399

Patent Number(s):: 8701419

Application Number:: 13/468,961

Assignee:: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F23 - COMBUSTION APPARATUS F23R - GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS

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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F23 - COMBUSTION APPARATUS F23R - GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
F23R3/12 - inducing a vortex
F23R3/286 - {having fuel-air premixing devices

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DOE Contract Number:: FC26-05NT42643

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2012 May 10

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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Premix combustor patent, July 1978

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Gas generator with injector mixing cup patent, February 1988

Portable burner for fuel gas with two mixer tubes patent, May 1993

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Premixed Direct Injection Disk patent-application, September 2010

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Gas generator with injector mixing cup
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Air fuel mixer for gas turbine combustor having slots at downstream end of mixing duct
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Multi-stage radial axial gas turbine engine combustor
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Combustor and a Fuel Supply Method for the Combustor
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Premixed Direct Injection Disk
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Dimpled/Grooved Face on a Fuel Injection Nozzle Body for Flame Stabilization and Related Method
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Turbomachine including a mixing tube element having a vortex generator
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An experimental and numerical investigation of flow patterns in the entrance of plate-fin heat exchanger
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Air diffuser for a head end of a combustor
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