Connecting apparatus for the flow connection between a fuel feed line system and a nozzle apparatus, nozzle apparatus and gas turbine arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12196420-B2
Application number	US-202318353424-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2023
Priority date	Jul 21, 2022
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

A connecting apparatus for fluid connection between a fuel feed line system and a nozzle apparatus of a gas turbine arrangement, includes a gas fuel line which is surrounded by a wall for conducting a gaseous fuel, and a liquid fuel line which is surrounded by a wall for conducting a liquid fuel. Optimized operation is achieved by the connecting apparatus having at least one separate gas line portion arranged on the inlet side of the gas fuel line and a gas/liquid line portion which is arranged downstream of the separate gas line portion and within which the gas fuel line and the liquid fuel line are arranged to form a line arrangement for connection to the nozzle apparatus. The flow cross section of the gas fuel line is of at least substantially identically large configuration within the separate gas line portion and the gas/liquid line portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A connecting apparatus for a fluid connection between a fuel feed line system and a nozzle apparatus of a gas turbine arrangement with a gas fuel line which is surrounded by a first wall for conducting a gaseous fuel, and a liquid fuel line which is surrounded by a second wall for conducting a liquid fuel,
wherein the connecting apparatus includes at least one separate gas line portion arranged on an inlet side of the gas fuel line and a gas/liquid line portion which is arranged downstream of the at least one separate gas line portion and within which the gas fuel line and the liquid fuel line are arranged to form a line arrangement for connection to the nozzle apparatus, and
wherein a flow cross section of the gas fuel line is of at least substantially identically large configuration within the at least one separate gas line portion and the gas/liquid line portion.

2. The connecting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, the gas fuel line is arranged around the liquid fuel line in the gas/liquid line portion, in a cylindrical and/or coaxial manner.

3. The connecting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a transition portion is arranged between the at least one separate gas line portion and the gas/liquid line portion, and within the transition portion, the liquid fuel line is guided through the first wall in a fluid-tight manner and is surrounded by the gas fuel line, within the line arrangement.

4. The connecting apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the liquid fuel line is brought within the transition portion by a deflection piece, configured as a pipe, from the first wall to within the line arrangement, the deflection piece forming a deflection in a course of the liquid fuel line from a first course which adjoins the first wall on an exterior of the connecting apparatus to a second course within the line arrangement, the deflection being within a range of from 70° to 100°.

5. The connecting apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the deflection piece is connected to the first wall in a single-piece or integrally joined manner.

6. The connecting apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the deflection piece is of arcuate configuration.

7. The connecting apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the deflection piece has a straight configuration and/or is positioned at an angle of 45° or less with regard to a longitudinal axis of the second wall.

8. The connecting apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the liquid fuel line has, in a separate liquid line portion outside the first wall, a connecting piece for connection to a liquid connector line of the fuel feed line system, the liquid connector line being joined to the deflection piece, with an intermediate piece arranged in between.

9. The connecting apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the gas fuel line is oriented along a longitudinal axis of the connecting apparatus, with portions of the gas fuel line, the at least one separate gas line portion and/or the transition portion and/or the gas/liquid line portion, being arranged coaxially with regard to the longitudinal axis.

10. The connecting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first wall of the gas fuel line is configured as a circumferential hollow body.

11. The connecting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first wall has a radially outer side and on the radially outer side, a thread for connection to a gas connector line of the fuel feed line system.

12. The connecting apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first wall includes a widened cross-sectional portion at a transition from the at least one separate gas line portion to the transition portion.

13. The connecting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, from a downstream end of the first wall and/or the second wall, the connecting apparatus includes a connecting arrangement configured for connection to the nozzle apparatus in a fluid-tight manner.

14. The connecting apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein, at the downstream end of the first wall, the connecting arrangement includes a sealing cone with the formation of a radially inwardly directed sealing surface, for sealing the gas fuel line in operative connection to a complementary sealing surface on the nozzle apparatus.

15. The connecting apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein, at the downstream end of the second wall, the connecting arrangement has a tapered portion of an outer diameter such that the second wall is insertable in a positively locking manner, into the liquid fuel line, surrounded by a complementary wall of the nozzle apparatus, and within the nozzle apparatus, an inner diameter of the complementary wall corresponds to an inner diameter of the second wall upstream of the tapered portion.

16. The connecting apparatus according to claim 15 , and further comprising at least one annular cut-out for receiving a seal in an axial region of the tapered portion.

17. The connecting apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the tapered portion is configured such that an axially sliding connection is formed in a mounted state, with a circumferential gap being formed between an upstream end of the complementary wall and a cross-sectional step to the tapered portion.

18. The connecting apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the connecting arrangement includes a cross-sectional step that is configured radially on an exterior at the downstream end of the first wall and is circumferential, and includes a notch.

19. The connecting apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the sealing surface is arranged offset axially with respect to the tapered portion, upstream of the tapered portion.

20. The connecting apparatus according to claim 13 , and further comprising a first connecting portion comprising at least the transition portion and a second connecting portion comprising at least one part of the line arrangement and the connecting arrangement, the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion being configured in one piece or being connected to one another in a positively locking, non-positive and/or integrally joined manner.

21. A nozzle apparatus with a complementary connecting arrangement, by which the nozzle apparatus is connected in a fluid-tight manner to the connecting apparatus according to claim 1 .

22. A gas turbine arrangement with at least one of the connecting apparatus according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Rolls Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

Inventors

• Clemen Carsten

Classifications

• F23R3/36

  Supply of different fuels · CPC title

• F02C7/222 Primary

  Fuel flow conduits, e.g. manifolds · CPC title

• F23R2900/00002

  Gas turbine combustors adapted for fuels having low heating value [LHV] · CPC title

• F23R3/283 Primary

  Attaching or cooling of fuel injecting means including supports for fuel injectors, stems, or lances · CPC title

• F23D17/002

  gaseous or liquid fuel · CPC title