Combustor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9377192-B2
Application number	US-201213472690-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2012
Priority date	May 20, 2011
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

A highly-reliable combustor is provided that allows flash back of flame into a premixer to be suppressed.
The combustor has a mixing chamber forming member 110 that forms a mixing chamber thereinside. The mixing chamber includes a first mixing chamber 200 broadening toward a downstream side. The member 110 includes air introduction holes 202, 203, 204 formed in a plurality of rows in an axial direction, with the air introduction holes being arranged plurally in a circumferential direction of the mixing chamber. The member 110 includes a fuel ejection hole 206 provided in a wall surface which forms the air introduction hole. The air introduction holes 202, 203, 204 are circumferentially eccentrically installed. The air introduction holes 202 located in the most upstream row are more inclined toward the downstream side than the air introduction holes 203, 204 located in the rows other than the most upstream row.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A combustor comprising:
a mixing chamber forming member that forms a mixing chamber inside thereof;
a first mixing chamber defined in the mixing chamber, the first mixing chamber broadening toward a downstream side;
the mixing chamber forming member including air introduction holes formed in a plurality of rows in an axial direction, with the air introduction holes being arranged plurally in a circumferential direction of the mixing chamber; and
the mixing chamber forming member including a fuel ejection hole, the fuel ejection hole being provided in a wall surface which forms the air introduction hole,
a fuel nozzle located about a central axis of the burner, wherein the first mixing chamber has a conical shape broadening from the fuel ejection hole, and wherein the combustor has a cylindrical second mixing chamber located downstream of the first mixing chamber; wherein
the air introduction holes are circumferentially eccentrically provided, and wherein the air introduction holes located in a most upstream row are more inclined toward the downstream side than the air introduction holes located in a row other than the most upstream row.

2. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the air introduction holes located in the most upstream row are each such that an outlet is located on the downstream side in the axial direction more than an inlet, and the air introduction holes located in the at least one row other than the most upstream row are each such that an inlet and an outlet have the same axial position.

3. The combustor according to claim 2 , wherein an angle between a conical surface of the first mixing chamber and the axis is α and an inclined angle of the air introduction hole installed in the most upstream row is β, β is set between 0.7α and 1.3α.

4. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein an angle α of the conical surface of the mixing chamber with respect to the axis is set between 30 and 40 degrees.

5. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel ejection hole is an ejection nozzle adapted to eject gas fuel and the fuel nozzle is a nozzle adapted to eject liquid fuel.

6. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the air introduction holes located in a most upstream row are more inclined toward the downstream side with respect to lines that are perpendicular to the central axis of the burner than the air introduction holes located in a row other than the most upstream row.

7. A combustor comprising:
a mixing chamber forming member that forms a mixing chamber inside thereof;
a first mixing chamber defined in the mixing chamber, the first mixing chamber broadening toward a downstream side;
the mixing chamber forming member including air introduction holes formed in a plurality of rows in an axial direction, with the air introduction holes being arranged plurally in a circumferential direction of the mixing chamber; and
the mixing chamber forming member including a fuel ejection hole, the fuel ejection hole being provided in a wall surface which forms the air introduction hole; wherein
the air introduction holes are each disposed such that a central axis thereof does not intersect a burner central axis, and
the air introduction holes located in a most upstream row are more inclined toward the downstream side with respect to lines that are perpendicular to the central axis of the burner than the air introduction holes located in a row other than the most upstream row.

8. The combustor according to claim 7 , further comprising: a fuel nozzle located about a central axis of the burner, wherein the first mixing chamber has a conical shape broadening from the fuel ejection hole, and wherein the combustor has a cylindrical second mixing chamber located downstream of the first mixing chamber.

9. The combustor according to claim 7 , wherein the air introduction holes located in the most upstream row are each such that an outlet is located on the downstream side in the axial direction more than an inlet, and the air introduction holes located in at least one row other than the most upstream row are each such that an inlet and an outlet have the same axial position.

10. The combustor according to claim 9 , wherein an angle between a conical surface of the first mixing chamber and the axis is α and an inclined angle of the air introduction hole installed in the most upstream row is β, β is set between 0.7α and 1.3α.

11. The combustor according to claim 8 , wherein an angle α of the conical surface of the mixing chamber with respect to the axis is set between 30 and 40 degrees.

12. The combustor according to claim 8 , wherein the fuel ejection hole is an ejection nozzle adapted to eject gas fuel and the fuel nozzle is a nozzle adapted to eject liquid fuel.

13. A combustor comprising:
a mixing chamber forming member that forms a mixing chamber inside thereof;
a first mixing chamber defined in the mixing chamber, the first mixing chamber broadening toward a downstream side;
the mixing chamber forming member including air introduction holes formed in a plurality of rows in an axial direction, with the air introduction holes being arranged plurally in a circumferential direction of the mixing chamber; and
the mixing chamber forming member including a fuel ejection hole, the fuel ejection hole being provided in a wall surface which forms the air introduction hole; wherein
the air introduction holes are circumferentially eccentrically provided, and
the air introduction holes located in a most upstream row are more inclined toward the downstream side than the air introduction holes located in a row other than the most upstream row, and
the air introduction holes located in the most upstream row are each such that an outlet is located on the downstream side in the axial direction more than an inlet, and the air introduction holes located in the at least one row other than the most upstream row are each such that an inlet and an outlet have the same axial position.

Assignees

• Hirata Yoshitaka
• Yoshida Shohei
• Sekiguchi Tatsuya
• Hayashi Akinori
• Takahashi Hirokazu
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Hirata Yoshitaka
• Yoshida Shohei
• Sekiguchi Tatsuya
• Hayashi Akinori
• Takahashi Hirokazu

Classifications

• F23D2900/14021

  Premixing burners with swirling or vortices creating means for fuel or air · CPC title

• F23R3/04

  Air inlet arrangements · CPC title

• F23R3/12

  inducing a vortex · CPC title

• F23C7/002

  the air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion (cyclonic combustion chamber F23C3/006) · CPC title

• F23D14/62

  Mixing devices; Mixing tubes · CPC title