Internal baffling for fuel injector

Title: Internal baffling for fuel injector

Abstract

A fuel injector includes a fuel delivery tube; a plurality of pre-mixing tubes, each pre-mixing tube comprising at least one fuel injection hole; an upstream tube support plate that supports upstream ends of the plurality of pre-mixing tubes; a downstream tube support plate that supports downstream ends of the plurality of pre-mixing tubes; an outer wall connecting the upstream tube support plate and the downstream tube support plate and defining a plenum therewith; and a baffle provided in the plenum. The baffle includes a radial portion. A fuel delivered in the upstream direction by the fuel delivery tube is directed radially outwardly in the plenum between the radial portion of the baffle and the downstream tube support plate, then in the downstream direction around an outer edge portion of the radial portion, and then radially inwardly between the radial portion and the upstream tube support plate.

Inventors:: Johnson, Thomas Edward; Lacy, Benjamin; Stevenson, Christian

Issue Date:: 2014-08-05

Research Org.:: NETL (National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (United States))

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1150019

Patent Number(s):: 8,794,545

Application Number:: 12/567,022

Assignee:: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) NETL

DOE Contract Number:: FC26-05NT42643

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2009 Sep 25

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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  abstractNote = {A fuel injector includes a fuel delivery tube; a plurality of pre-mixing tubes, each pre-mixing tube comprising at least one fuel injection hole; an upstream tube support plate that supports upstream ends of the plurality of pre-mixing tubes; a downstream tube support plate that supports downstream ends of the plurality of pre-mixing tubes; an outer wall connecting the upstream tube support plate and the downstream tube support plate and defining a plenum therewith; and a baffle provided in the plenum. The baffle includes a radial portion. A fuel delivered in the upstream direction by the fuel delivery tube is directed radially outwardly in the plenum between the radial portion of the baffle and the downstream tube support plate, then in the downstream direction around an outer edge portion of the radial portion, and then radially inwardly between the radial portion and the upstream tube support plate.},

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Premix combustor
patent, July 1978

Striebel, Edmund; Koblish, Theodore; Madden, Thomas
US Patent Document 4,100,733
URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F4100733

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