Fuel injection device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10132499-B2
Application number	US-201414557877-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2014
Priority date	Jun 7, 2012
Publication date	Nov 20, 2018
Grant date	Nov 20, 2018

Abstract

A fuel injection device for supplying a fuel to a compressed air includes: a pilot fuel injector; a main fuel injector located at an outer periphery of the pilot fuel injector; and an air injection unit located between an outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector. The air injection unit includes: a partition wall plate separating the air injection unit from a combustion chamber; a flame stabilization plate provided at a downstream side of the partition wall plate; a first opening at a downstream side between the flame stabilization plate and the outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector; and a second opening provided in the partition wall plate and through which the compressed air is supplied. The flame stabilization plate includes an inclined portion inclined in a radially outward and downstream direction with respect to an axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel injection device for supplying a fuel to a compressed air from a compressor for combustion, the fuel injection device comprising:
a pilot fuel injector located at a radially center portion of the fuel injection device and configured to inject the fuel into a combustion chamber;
a main fuel injector located at an outer periphery of the pilot fuel injector and configured to inject a premixed air-fuel mixture of the fuel and the compressed air into the combustion chamber; and
an air injection unit located between an outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector and configured to inject the compressed air into the combustion chamber,
the air injection unit including:
a partition wall plate provided at a downstream end portion of an inner main shroud that forms a part of the air injection unit;
a flame stabilization plate secured to the partition wall plate and provided at a downstream side of the partition wall plate;
a first opening provided between the flame stabilization plate and the outlet end portion of the pilot fuel injector and opened at a downstream side; and
a second opening which is provided in the partition wall plate and through which the compressed air is supplied to an inflow space defined between the flame stabilization plate and the partition wall plate, and

the flame stabilization plate includes an inclined portion inclined in a radially outwardly and in a downstream direction with respect to a fuel injection centerline axis, and a first portion substantially parallel to the fuel injection centerline axis and a second portion substantially parallel to the partition wall plate,
wherein the partition wall plate is angled radially inward towards the upstream end of the fuel injection centerline axis.

2. The fuel injection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second opening is provided as a throughhole formed in a portion of the partition wall plate that is covered by the flame stabilization plate so as to extend axially.

3. The fuel injection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the inclined portion extends substantially parallel to the partition wall plate.

4. The fuel injection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the flame stabilization plate includes a peripheral wall portion which is continued to an upstream side of the inclined portion and extends in an axial direction, so as to form an outer periphery of the first opening.

5. The fuel injection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector are connected to each other via a partition wall forming a reservoir space for the compressed air at a downstream side of the air injection unit, and the partition wall is formed with an introduction port for introducing the compressed air into the reservoir space.

6. The fuel injection device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pilot fuel injector is provided with a swirler configured to swirl the compressed air about an axis of the swirler.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd
• Japan Aerospace Exploration

Inventors

• Matsuyama Ryusuke
• Kobayashi Masayoshi
• Horikawa Atsushi
• Fujiwara Hitoshi

Classifications

• F23R3/343

  Pilot flames, i.e. fuel nozzles or injectors using only a very small proportion of the total fuel to insure continuous combustion (ignition in gas-turbine plants F02C7/264; pilot flame igniters F23Q9/00) · CPC title

• Y02T50/675

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F23R3/18

  Flame stabilising means, e.g. flame holders for after-burners of jet-propulsion plants · CPC title

• F23R3/28

  characterised by the fuel supply (burners F23D) · CPC title

• F23R3/34

  Feeding into different combustion zones · CPC title