Near-wall roughness for damping devices reducing pressure oscillations in combustion systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9261058-B2
Application number	US-201313950805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2013
Priority date	Jul 31, 2012
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

A damping device for reducing pressure oscillations in a combustion system includes at least a portion provided with a first, outer wall, a second, inner wall, an intermediate plate interposed between the first wall and the second wall. This intermediate plate forms a spacer grid to define at least one chamber between said first wall and said second wall, first passages connecting each of said at least one chamber to the inner of the combustion system, and second passages connecting each of said at least one chamber to the outer of the combustion system. The second passages open at the same side of said chambers as the first passages, the second passages have a portion extending parallel to the inner wall. This parallel portion of said second passages is equipped with heat transfer enhancing means.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A damping device for reducing pressure oscillations in a combustion system, the damping device comprising:
a portion provided with a first outer wall, a second inner wall, an intermediate plate interposed between the first outer wall and the second inner wall, wherein the intermediate plate forms a spacer grid to define at least one chamber between the first outer wall and the second inner wall, first passages connecting each of the at least one chamber to the interior of the combustion system, and second passages connecting each of the at least one chamber to the exterior of the combustion system,
wherein the second passages open at the same side of said at least one chamber as the first passages, the second passages have a section extending parallel to the second inner wall, wherein at least this parallel section of the second passages is equipped with heat transfer enhancing means and wherein the second passages have a non-circular cross section design.

2. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the second passages have a rectangular cross section.

3. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the parallel section of the second passages are formed as grooves in the second inner wall, the grooves comprising a lower surface and two side walls, and the grooves being capped by a second plate.

4. The damping device according to claim 2 , wherein the second passages have a rectangular cross section with a height, i.e. a distance between a lower boundary surface and an upper boundary surface, and a width, i.e. a distance between the opposed side walls, wherein the ratio of width to height is in the range from 1.5 to 25.

5. The damping device according to claim 4 , wherein the width-to-height ratio of the passages is between 2 and 5.

6. The damping device according to claim 2 wherein the height of the passages is in the range from 0.3 mm to 3 mm, preferably in the range from 0.5 mm to 2 mm.

7. The damping device according to claim 2 , wherein the heat transfer enhancing means in the second passages are roughness features, connected to the surface inside the second passages.

8. The damping device according to claim 7 , characterized in that the heat transfer enhancing means are swirl generators, ribs, pin-fin arrays, nubs, diamonds or roughness features.

9. The damping device according to claim 8 , wherein the heat transfer enhancing means extend between a lower surface of the second inner wall and an opposed upper surface.

10. The damping device according to claim 9 , wherein the heat transfer enhancing means connect to the lower surface of the second inner wall.

11. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the heat transfer enhancing means is a gas permeable structure of a material with a thermal conductivity completely filling the cross section of the passages.

12. The damping device according to claim 11 , wherein a metallic foam fills the cross section of the second passages.

13. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one chamber is formed by holes in the intermediate plate.

14. The damping device according to claim 13 , wherein the holes, defining the at least one chamber, are through holes in the intermediate plate.

15. The damping device according to claim 14 , wherein the first outer wall defines the outer wall of the at least one chamber.

16. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein a second plate lies side-by-side with the intermediate plate and defines an inner side of the at least one chamber and defines the first passages and the second passages by through holes in the second plate.

17. The damping device according to claim 16 , wherein a third plate is interposed between the second plate and the second inner wall and also defining the first passages and said second passages.

18. The damping device according to claim 17 , wherein in order to define the first passages, the second plate has through holes and the third plate has through holes.

19. The damping device according to claim 17 , wherein in order to define the second passages, the second plate has through holes and the third plate has through slots.

20. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein, the second passages have a rectangular cross section, at least in the section parallel to the second inner wall, the second inner wall defines at least one inner side of the second passages in this section, and the heat transfer enhancing means are connected to the second inner wall in the parallel section.

21. The damping device according to claim 7 , wherein a plurality of roughness features are arranged in a pattern, wherein the distance between adjacent roughness features and/or the dimension of adjacent roughness features is constant.

22. The damping device according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a plurality of roughness features arranged in a pattern and the distances between the individual roughness features and/or the dimension of the individual roughness features differs in flow direction and/or orthogonally to the flow direction according to mass flow or heat transfer requirements of the combustion system.

23. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one chamber is connected via first passage to the mixing tube of a reheat combustion system of a gas turbine.

24. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one chamber is connected via first passage to a combustion chamber.

25. The damping device according to claim 1 , wherein the combustion system is a reheat combustion system in a gas turbine with sequential combustion.

Assignees

• Alstom Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Maurer Michael
• Huber Andreas
• Schneider Lothar
• Benz Urs
• Lauffer Diane

Classifications

• F02M35/1261 Primary

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• F23M20/005

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