Afterburner and aircraft engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10168050-B2
Application number	US-201615196271-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2016
Priority date	Apr 30, 2014
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

The present embodiment sufficiently ensures the ignition stability and the flame-holding property of an afterburner while suppressing a reduction in the efficiency of an aircraft engine. A flame holder is disposed directly downstream of an injection hole of a fuel injector in a liner. The flame holder comprises: a ring-shaped annulus flame-holding member which is provided on the inner circumferential surface of the liner and is capable of propagating a flame in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of radial flame-holding members which are radially disposed inwards of the annulus flame-holding member and are capable of propagating the flame in the radial direction. A guide ring is provided inwards of the radial flame-holding members, and a ring-shaped guide channel that guides a fuel-containing mixed gas in the downstream direction is formed between the outer peripheral surface of the guide ring and the inner peripheral surface of the annulus flame-holding member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An afterburner configured to supply fuel for burning in a gas mixture of combustion gas and air, the combustion gas being discharged from a core flow path of an aircraft engine and the air being discharged from a fan flow path of the aircraft engine, the afterburner configured to increase thrust of the aircraft engine, the afterburner comprising:
a rear duct provided at an outlet of an engine case of the aircraft engine;
a cylindrical liner positioned within the rear duct and configured to receive the combustion gas and air;
a fuel injector configured to inject the fuel in the form of liquid in the cylindrical liner;
an igniter positioned downstream of the fuel injector and configured to ignite the gas mixture containing the fuel in the cylindrical liner;
a flame holder positioned downstream of the fuel injector and configured to hold flame, the flame holder including:
an annulus flame holding member which is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical liner in contact therewith and configured to propagate flame in a circumferential direction; and
a plurality of radial flame holding members which are oriented radially inside the annulus flame holding member and configured to propagate flame in a radial direction;

and
a guide ring which is provided inside the annulus flame holding member, wherein an annular guide flow path is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the guide ring and an inner circumferential surface of the annulus flame holding member, the guide ring being configured to guide the gas mixture containing the fuel in a downstream direction.

2. The afterburner according to claim 1 , wherein an upstream end of the guide ring is located upstream of the fuel injector.

3. An aircraft engine configured to generate thrust by discharging combustion gas rearward, comprising the afterburner according to claim 1 .

4. An aircraft engine configured to generate thrust by discharging combustion gas rearward, comprising the afterburner according to claim 2 .

5. The afterburner according to claim 1 , wherein an outer circumferential surface of the annulus flame holding member abuts the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical liner at an upstream end of the annulus flame holding member.

6. The afterburner according to claim 5 , wherein a first support is provided between the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical liner and the outer circumferential surface of the annulus flame holding member, and a second support is provided between the outer circumferential surface of the guide ring and the inner circumferential surface of the annulus flame holding member.

7. The afterburner according to claim 6 , wherein a downstream end of the first support is further downstream than a downstream end of the second support.

Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Tanaka Shinji
• Takahashi Katsuyoshi
• Hosoi Jun

Classifications

• F02K3/10

  by after-burners (F02K3/105 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F23R3/286

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

• F23R3/20

  incorporating fuel injection means · CPC title

• F05D2240/35

  Combustors or associated equipment · CPC title

• F02K1/822

  Heat insulating structures or liners, cooling arrangements, e.g. post combustion liners; Infrared radiation suppressors · CPC title