Combustor and gas turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10107501-B2
Application number	US-201414777685-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2014
Priority date	Mar 21, 2013
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

An object is to realize combustion flame which can further reduce the amount of NOx generation. A combustor (14) includes a pilot nozzle (40); a plurality of main nozzles (44) arranged apart from the pilot nozzle (40) in the circumferential direction on the outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle (40) and configured to perform premix combustion; a combustor basket (34) surrounding the pilot nozzle (40) and each main nozzle (44); an outlet outer ring (50) provided at a tip end of the combustor basket (34); and a combustion liner (36) fitted, at an inner surface thereof, onto the outer periphery of the combustor basket (34) and surrounding the outlet outer ring (50). The outlet outer ring (50) is formed parallel to an inner wall surface (66) of the combustion liner (36).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A combustor comprising:
a pilot nozzle;
a plurality of main nozzles arranged apart from the pilot nozzle in a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle and configured to perform premix combustion;
a combustor basket surrounding the pilot nozzle and each main nozzle;
a ring provided at a tip end of the combustor basket; and
a combustion liner, an inner surface of which is fitted onto an outer periphery of the combustor basket and surrounds the ring,
wherein the ring is formed such that an inner wall surface thereof is parallel to an inner wall surface of the combustion liner, or is formed such that an inner diameter thereof decreases toward a downstream side of a flow of premixed gas,
wherein an outer diameter of the ring decreases toward an end portion of the ring, the end portion located at the downstream side of the flow of the premixed gas.

2. The combustor of claim 1 , wherein
an inner diameter of the combustion liner increases from a step formed on a downstream side of the end portion of the ring, and
air is discharged to a vicinity of the step through an air flow path formed in a clearance between the ring and the combustion liner.

3. The combustor of claim 2 , wherein
a discharge hole through which air is discharged from the inner wall surface of the combustion liner is formed on a downstream side of the step of the combustion liner.

4. The combustor of claim 2 , wherein
an acoustic box where a resonant space is formed with a plurality of holes penetrating the combustion liner in the circumferential direction is provided in the step of the combustion liner.

5. The combustor of claim 2 , wherein
the air flow path provides a swirling component to circulating air.

6. The combustor of claim 1 , wherein
an inner diameter of the combustion liner gradually increases on a downstream side of the end portion of the ring.

7. The combustor of claim 6 , wherein
a discharge hole through which air is discharged to the inner wall surface of the combustion liner is formed in a region where the inner diameter of the combustion liner increases.

8. The combustor of claim 6 , wherein
in a region where the inner diameter of the combustion liner increases, an acoustic box where a resonant space is formed with a plurality of holes penetrating the combustion liner in the circumferential direction is provided.

9. The combustor of claim 1 , further comprising:
a pilot cone covering around a tip end of the pilot nozzle,
wherein the tip end of the pilot nozzle is positioned in a vicinity of an end portion of the pilot cone.

10. A gas turbine comprising:
a compressor configured to compress air into compressed air;
the combustor of claim 1 configured to inject fuel to the compressed air introduced from the compressor to generate combustion gas; and
a turbine rotatably driven by the combustion gas generated at the combustor.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Takiguchi Satoshi
• Isono Mitsunori
• Yuasa Atsushi
• Ito Eisaku
• Mandai Shigemi

Classifications

• F23R3/44

  Combustion chambers comprising a {single} tubular flame tube within a tubular casing (reverse-flow combustion chambers F23R3/54) · CPC title

• F23R2900/00015

  Trapped vortex combustion chambers · CPC title

• F23R3/34

  Feeding into different combustion zones · CPC title

• F23R3/286

  having fuel-air premixing devices (F23R3/30 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F23R3/06

  Arrangement of apertures along the flame tube · CPC title