Combustor and gas turbine provided with same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9957893-B2
Application number	US-201214007253-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2012
Priority date	Mar 30, 2011
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A combustor ( 10 ) according to the invention includes: a combustor basket ( 14 ) in which compressed air and fuel are mixed with each other and the mixture is combusted; a transition piece ( 17 ) in which a tip portion of the combustor basket ( 14 ) is inserted with a gap (C) therebetween; a spring clip ( 19 ) that seals the gap between the combustor basket ( 14 ) and the transition piece ( 17 ); a throttle section ( 21 ) that is provided in an opening portion (Ck) of the gap (C) that is opened to the transition piece ( 17 ) on the tip side of the combustor basket ( 14 ), and narrows an opening area of the opening portion (Ck), compared to the base end side; and cooling device ( 22 ) for cooling the throttle section ( 21 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A combustor comprising:
a combustor basket in which compressed air and fuel are mixed to form a mixture with each other and the mixture is combusted;
a transition piece in which a tip portion of the combustor basket is inserted with a gap therebetween;
a spring clip that seals the gap between the combustor basket and the transition piece;
a throttle section that is provided in an opening portion of the gap, the opening portion opening on a tip side of the combustor basket to the transition piece, and narrows an opening area of the opening portion, compared to a base end side of the combustor basket; and
a cooling device that has a cooling fluid flow path upstream of a fixed position of the throttle section of the transition piece for cooling the throttle section,
the cooling device comprising:
an injection section that injects a cooling fluid toward the opening portion; and
a guide section that is provided with a direction change piece and that is configured to change an injection direction of the cooling fluid toward the throttle section, the direction change piece being spaced apart from the spring clip and being spaced apart from the throttle section,
wherein the throttle section is provided by projecting an inner surface of the transition piece toward the combustor basket.

2. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling device cools the throttle section by injecting the cooling fluid to the throttle section.

3. The combustor according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling device cools the throttle section by making a cooling fluid flow along the surface of the throttle section.

4. The combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the cooling device makes the cooling fluid flow along the surface of the throttle section, wherein the surface of the throttle section is a surface of the throttle section facing the tip side of the combustor basket.

5. The combustor according to claim 3 , wherein the cooling device makes the cooling fluid flow along the surface of the throttle section, wherein the surface of the throttle section is a surface of the throttle section facing the base end side of the combustor basket.

6. A gas turbine comprising: the combustor according to claim 1 .

7. A combustor comprising:
a combustor basket in which compressed air and fuel are mixed to form a mixture with each other and the mixture is combusted;
a transition piece in which a tip portion of the combustor basket is inserted with a gap therebetween;
a spring clip that seals the gap between the combustor basket and the transition piece;
a throttle section that is provided in an opening portion of the gap, the opening portion opening on a tip side of the combustor basket to the transition piece, and narrows an opening area of the opening portion, compared to a base end side of the combustor basket; and
a cooling device for cooling the throttle section, wherein
the throttle section is tubular and has an L-shape as seen from a cross section parallel to an axis direction of the transition piece,
one end portion of the throttle section is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the transition piece and the other end portion of the throttle section is disposed in the opening portion, and
the cooling device injects a cooling fluid from a tip side position of the transition piece closer than a fixed position of the throttle section of the transition piece and is configured to make a cooling fluid flow along a surface of the throttle section to cool the throttle section.

8. The combustor according to claim 7 , wherein the throttle section is provided by projecting an inner surface of the transition piece toward the combustor basket.

9. The combustor according to claim 7 , wherein the cooling device has an injection section that injects the cooling fluid toward the opening portion, and a guide section that guides the injected cooling fluid toward the throttle section.

10. The combustor according to claim 7 , wherein the cooling device makes the cooling fluid flow along a surface of the throttle section facing the tip side of the combustor basket.

11. The combustor according to claim 7 , wherein the cooling device makes the cooling fluid flow along a surface of the throttle section facing the base end side of the combustor basket.

12. A gas turbine comprising: the combustor according to claim 7 .

Assignees

• Takiguchi Satoshi
• Saito Keijiro
• Matsumoto Teruhiro
• Sato Kenji
• Tamai Hidenobu
• Mandai Shigemi
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Takiguchi Satoshi
• Saito Keijiro
• Matsumoto Teruhiro
• Sato Kenji
• Tamai Hidenobu
• Mandai Shigemi

Classifications

• F23R3/286

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

• F23R2900/00012

  Details of sealing devices · CPC title

• F23R3/42 Primary

  characterised by the arrangement or form of the flame tubes or combustion chambers · CPC title

• F01D9/023 Primary

  Transition ducts between combustor cans and first stage of the turbine in gas-turbine engines; their cooling or sealings · CPC title

• F23R3/002

  Wall structures (F23R3/02 and F23R3/007 take precedence) · CPC title