Fluid mixing apparatus using high- and low-pressure fluid streams

Patent · Tue Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2023

OSTI ID:2293916

Berry, Jonathan Dwight; Zhao, Wei; Hughes, Michael John

A fluid mixing apparatus includes mixing conduits that extend through a fluid plenum and that define injection holes therethrough. The fluid plenum, which surrounds a first wall defining a main passage fluidly coupled to a low-pressure fluid source, is surrounded itself by a second wall defining a high-pressure plenum fluidly coupled to a high-pressure fluid source. The mixing conduits fluidly couple the high-pressure plenum to the main passage, and the fluid from the fluid plenum is delivered with the high-pressure fluid to the main passage, where the fluids mix before being discharged from an outlet of the main passage. The fluid mixing apparatus may be used to mix one or more fuels with high- and low-pressure air in a gas turbine combustor. Alternately, the fluid mixing apparatus may mix a fluid with high- and low-pressure water streams.

• Research Organization: General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FE0023965
• Assignee: General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)
• Patent Number(s): 11,828,467
• Application Number: 16/731,283
• OSTI ID: 2293916
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 12/31/2019
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English