Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090044539 | FUEL LANCE FOR A GAS TURBINE INSTALLATION AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING A FUEL LANCE - A fuel lance for a gas turbine installation with sequential combustion, in which hot gas is produced in a first combustion chamber and expanded in a subsequent turbine, and then flows through a subsequent second combustion chamber in which the fuel lance for injecting fuel into the hot gas is arranged. The fuel lance has a lance section which extends in the flow direction of the hot gas and includes at least an outer tube which is arranged concentrically to a lance axis, and a center tube which is concentrically arranged in the outer tube and in which the fuel is guided to the lance tip and is injected through first injection openings in the region of the lance tip into the hot gas. The fuel lance is modified for operation with syngas by the first injection openings being arranged directly on the lance tip, and by the first injection openings being oriented so that the fuel jets which emerge from them include an acute angle with the lance axis. | 02-19-2009 |
20090068609 | Burner Arrangement - A burner arrangement is disclosed with a conical swirler in the form of a double cone which is arranged concentric to a burner axis and which encloses a swirl chamber, and with a central fuel lance which lies in the burner axis and projects from the cone point of the swirler into the swirl chamber, wherein a first stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected radially outwards into the swirl chamber through injection openings which are arranged on the fuel lance, and wherein a second stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected into an air flow, which is guided in the double cone, through injection openings in the double cone. With such a burner arrangement, the gas pressure which is required in the first stage is reduced by the entire premix fuel being injected into the swirl chamber in the first stage through two oppositely-disposed injection openings with increased opening diameter. | 03-12-2009 |
20090094960 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAS TURBINE, METHOD OF OPERATION OF A COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT, AND COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT - In a method for operating a gas turbine (GT) with sequential combustion, which has at least one compressor ( | 04-16-2009 |
20090123882 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BURNER - A method and an apparatus are provided for the combustion of gaseous fuel containing hydrogen or consisting of hydrogen, with a burner which provides a swirl generator, into which liquid fuel is fed centrally along a burner axis, at the same time forming a conically shaped liquid fuel column which is surrounded by a rotating combustion air stream which flows tangentially into the swirl generator and into which, additionally, a gaseous and/or liquid fuel is injected so as to form a fuel/air swirl flow which is transferred downstream of the swirl generator, along a transitional portion, into a mixing zone following the transitional portion downstream and which is ignited and burnt in a combustion chamber following downstream, at the same time forming a backflow zone. | 05-14-2009 |
20090260368 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAS TURBINE - A method for operating a gas turbine ( | 10-22-2009 |
20090282830 | COMBUSTOR WITH REDUCED CARBON MONOXIDE EMISSIONS - A combustor arrangement for a gas turbine engine ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090282831 | METHOD FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM A COMBUSTOR - A modification method for reducing emissions from an annular shaped combustor of a gas turbine plant, having uniformly spaced circumferentially mounted premix burners ( | 11-19-2009 |
20100077720 | METHODS OF REDUCING EMISSIONS FOR A SEQUENTIAL COMBUSTION GAS TURBINE AND COMBUSTOR FOR A GAS TURBINE - In an SEV combustor and a method for reducing emissions in an SEV combustor of a sequential combustion gas turbine, an air/fuel mixture is combusted in a first burner and the hot gases are subsequently introduced into the SEV combustor ( | 04-01-2010 |
20100077756 | FUEL LANCE FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A fuel lance ( | 04-01-2010 |
20100146983 | BURNER FOR A COMBUSTOR OF A TURBOGROUP | 06-17-2010 |
20100175382 | GAS TURBINE BURNER - The burner ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100192591 | BURNER FOR A GAS TURBINE AND METHOD FOR FEEDING A GASEOUS FUEL IN A BURNER | 08-05-2010 |
20100229570 | BURNER FOR A GAS TURBINE AND METHOD FOR LOCALLY COOLING A HOT GASES FLOW PASSING THROUGH A BURNER - The burner ( | 09-16-2010 |
20100236246 | BURNER OF A GAS TURBINE - An exemplary burner of a gas turbine includes a tubular body with an inlet for an entrance of an air flow, downstream of inlet vortex generators, and a lance projecting into the tubular body and having a terminal portion extending along a longitudinal axis of the burner which is provided with nozzle groups for injecting fuel into the tubular body. The nozzle groups can lay in an injection plane perpendicular to the axis of the terminal portion of the lance. Downstream of the lance, the burner has an outlet. A ratio x/L between an axial distance x between the side trailing edge of the vortex generator and the injection plane, and the length L of the tubular body can be less than approximately 0.1052. | 09-23-2010 |
20100266970 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMBUSTING HYDROGEN IN A PREMIX BURNER - A device for combusting fuel which contains or consists of hydrogen, is described, with a burner provided with a swirl generator and also a feeder for feeding fuel and a feeder for feeding combustion air into the swirl generator. A first feeder, for feeding liquid fuel along a burner axis, and a second feeder for feeding liquid fuel or gaseous fuel along air inlet slots which are tangentially delimited by the swirl generator, with a transition section connected downstream to the swirl generator, and with a mixer tube connected downstream to the transition section and with a changeable flow cross-sectional transition leads into a combustion chamber are provided. Along the transition section, a third feeder for feeding fuel which contains or consists of hydrogen, and also a fourth feeder for the selective feed of fuel which contains or consists of hydrogen, or of the gaseous fuel are also provided. | 10-21-2010 |
20100273117 | PREMIX BURNER FOR A GAS TURBINE - A premix burner is provided, with a swirl generator and a downstream mixer tube for combusting gaseous and liquid fuel which during entry of combustion air is introduced into the burner interior space of the swirl generator and/or is introduced into the burner interior of the swirl generator on a burner axis, and also with a fuel lance which is arranged on the burner axis. The premix burner, in the transition section from the swirl generator to the mixer tube, includes at least one additional feed for introducing gaseous and/or liquid premix fuel from the wall region into the burner interior space of the mixer tube. | 10-28-2010 |
20100300109 | FUEL INJECTION METHOD - A method is provided for fuel injection in a sequential combustion system comprising a first combustion chamber and downstream thereof a second combustion chamber, in between which at least one vortex generator is located, as well as a premixing chamber having a longitudinal axis downstream of the vortex generator, and a fuel lance having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion, being located within said premixing chamber. The fuel injected is an MBtu-fuel. In said premixing chamber the fuel and a gas contained in an oxidizing stream coming from the first combustion chamber are premixed to a combustible mixture. The fuel is injected in such a way that the residence time of the fuel in the premixing chamber is reduced in comparison with a radial injection of the fuel from the horizontal portion of the fuel lance. | 12-02-2010 |
20100330282 | SLURRY FORMULATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS - A slurry formulation for production of a patch or a strip of a thermal barrier coating includes 20-60 dry weight percent of alkali metal silicate binder, 40-80 dry weight percent of ceramic fillers including at least one ceramic filler selected from the group consisting of yttria-stabilized zirconia and magnesia, 0-20 dry weight percent of additives, wherein the dry weight percent of the alkali metal silicate binder, the ceramic fillers and the additives add up to 100%, and one of a solvent and suspension agent. | 12-30-2010 |
20110027732 | BURNER OF A GAS TURBINE - The burner of a gas turbine includes two or more part cone shells arranged offset with respect to one another and defining a cone shaped chamber with longitudinal tangential slots for feeding air therein. A lance carrying a liquid fuel nozzle arranged centrally in the cone shaped chamber is also provided. A portion of the nozzle facing the cone shaped chamber is divergent in shape. A diffuser angle (α) between the wall of the nozzle and a longitudinal axis of the cone shaped chamber is less than 5°. A diverging portion of the nozzle has a diffuser length to nozzle diameter ratio comprised between 2-6. The nozzle diameter is the smaller diameter of the diverging portion. | 02-03-2011 |
20110079014 | BURNER ARRANGEMENT, AND USE OF SUCH A BURNER ARRANGEMENT - A burner arrangement includes a tubular mixing tube extending along an axis and configured to mix fuel and air, the mixing tube opening into a combustion chamber in a direction of flow; and a film air ring disposed in the mixing tube and arranged concentrically to the axis, the film air ring configured to prevent a backfiring of the fuel disposed in the mixing tube and to generate or reinforce an air film near the wall, wherein the film air ring has at least one annular gap concentric to the axis and configured to inject air. | 04-07-2011 |
20120017601 | GAS TURBINE WITH IMPROVED PART LOAD EMISSIONS BEHAVIOR - In a method for the low-CO emissions part load operation of a gas turbine with sequential combustion, the air ratio (λ) of the operative burners ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120036824 | REHEAT BURNER - A reheat burner ( | 02-16-2012 |
20120055162 | LANCE OF A BURNER - The lance of a burner includes a body that defines a first duct with first nozzles for injecting a liquid fuel and a second duct with second nozzles for injecting a gaseous fuel. Outlets of the first nozzles are spaced apart from outlets of the second nozzles. The body includes a third duct with third and fourth nozzles for injecting air. The third nozzles surround an axis of the first nozzles and the fourth nozzles surround an axis of the second nozzles. | 03-08-2012 |
20120073305 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A COMBUSTION CHAMBER - A combustion chamber of a gas turbine including first and second premixed fuel supply devices connected to a combustion device having first zones connected to the first premixed fuel supply devices and second zones connected to the second premixed fuel supply devices. The second fuel supply devices are shifted along a combustion device longitudinal axis with respect to the first fuel supply devices. The first zones are axially upstream of the second premixed fuel supply devices. | 03-29-2012 |
20120260622 | REHEAT BURNER INJECTION SYSTEM - A burner, such as for a secondary combustion chamber of a gas turbine with sequential combustion having first and second combustion chambers, includes an injection device for introducing at least one gaseous fuel into the burner. The injection device has at least one body which is arranged in the burner with at least one nozzle for introducing the gaseous fuel into the burner. The body is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile and which extends with a longitudinal direction perpendicularly or at an inclination to a main flow direction prevailing in the burner. The at least one nozzle has its outlet orifice at or in a trailing edge of the streamlined body. The body has two lateral surfaces substantially parallel to the main flow direction. At least one vortex generator is located on at least one lateral surface upstream of the at least one nozzle. | 10-18-2012 |
20120260657 | COMBUSTOR OF A GAS TURBINE - An exemplary combustor includes at least a portion having an inner liner and an outer cover plate, which together form an interposed cooling chamber. A plurality of hollow elements extend from the liner and protrude into the cooling chamber. Each hollow element defines a damping volume connected to an inner volume of the combustion chamber via a calibrated duct. During operation, the hollow elements damp pressure pulsations and, in addition, also transfer heat. | 10-18-2012 |
20120260665 | REHEAT COMBUSTOR FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A reheat combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel/gas mixer for mixing fuel, air and combustion gases produced by a primary combustor and expanded through a high pressure turbine. Fuel injectors inject fuel into the mixer together with spent cooling air previously used for convectively cooling the reheat combustor. The fuel mixture is burnt in an annular reheat combustion chamber prior to expansion through low pressure turbine inlet guide vanes. The fuel/gas mixer and optionally the combustion chamber define cooling paths through which cooling air flows to convectively cool their walls. The fuel injectors are also convectively cooled by the cooling air after it has passed through the fuel/gas mixer cooling paths. The low pressure turbine inlet guide vanes may also define convective cooling paths in series with the combustion chamber cooling paths. | 10-18-2012 |
20130091852 | OPERATING METHOD FOR HYDROGEN/NATURAL GAS BLENDS WITHIN A REHEAT GAS TURBINE - A gas turbine is operated using a varying blend of a first fuel, preferably natural gas, and a second fuel that is hydrogen. The hydrogen concentration is varied depending on operating conditions in order to reduce emissions of CO and NOx, and/or to mitigate LBO. The fuel mixture is varied using a controller based on a combination of factors in a modular operation concept to address different issues according to relevant load limitations. A method of operating a gas turbine according to this modular operational concept is also provided. | 04-18-2013 |
20130219904 | Methods of Operation of A Gas Turbine With Improved Part Load Emissions Behavior - In a method for the low-CO emissions part load operation of a gas turbine with sequential combustion, the air ratio (λ) of the operative burners ( | 08-29-2013 |
20140033728 | GAS TURBINE ASSEMBLY AND CORRESPONDING OPERATING METHOD - The invention relates to a gas turbine assembly which substantially includes at least one compressor, at least one first burner, at least one second burner that is connected downstream of the first burner, and at least one turbine that is connected downstream of the second burner. At least the first and second burner form a component of a tubular or quasi-tubular combustion chamber element in the flow direction of the combustion path of the burners. The combustion chamber element being closed or quasi-closed and extending between the compressor and the turbine. The combustion chamber elements are arranged around the rotor of the gas turbine assembly in the shape of a ring. | 02-06-2014 |
20140053566 | METHOD FOR MIXING A DILUTION AIR IN A SEQUENTIAL COMBUSTION SYSTEM OF A GAS TURBINE - The invention relates a method for mixing a dilution air with a hot main flow in a sequential combustion system of a gas turbine, wherein the gas turbine essentially comprises at least one compressor, a first combustor which is connected downstream to the compressor The hot gases of the first combustor are admitted to at least one intermediate turbine or directly or indirectly to at least one second combustor, wherein the hot gases of the second combustor are admitted to a further turbine or directly or indirectly to an energy recovery. The method comprising a coaxial injection of first combustor liner cooling air with second combustor liner cooling air having a sufficient excess pressure margin with respect to the second combustor liner cooling air | 02-27-2014 |
20140109586 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAS TURBINE WITH SEQUENTIAL COMBUSTION AND GAS TURBINE FOR CONDUCTING SAID METHOD - The invention discloses a method for operating a gas turbine with sequential combustion, which gas turbine includes a compressor, a first combustor with a first combustion chamber and first burners, which receives compressed air from the compressor, a second combustor with a second combustion chamber and second burners, which receives hot gas from the first combustor with a predetermined second combustor inlet temperature, and a turbine, which receives hot gas from the second combustor. The CO emission for part-load operation is reduced by reducing the second combustor inlet temperature for base-load operation of the gas turbine, and increasing the second combustor inlet temperature when decreasing the gas turbine load (RL | 04-24-2014 |
20140123670 | GAS TURBINE BURNER - The burner of a gas turbine includes a swirl generator and, downstream of it, a mixing tube. The swirl generator is defined by at least two walls facing one another to define a conical swirl chamber and is provided with nozzles arranged to inject a fuel and apertures arranged to feed an oxidiser into the swirl chamber. The burner includes a lance which extends along a longitudinal axis of the swirl generator and is provided with side nozzles for ejecting a fuel within the burner. The side nozzles have their axes inclined with respect to the axis of the lance and can be positioned along the axis of the burner. | 05-08-2014 |
20140150436 | GAS TURBINE PART COMPRISING A NEAR WALL COOLING ARRANGEMENT - A gas turbine combustor part of a gas turbine includes a wall, containing a plurality of near wall cooling channels extending essentially parallel to each other in a first direction within the wall in close vicinity to the hot side and being arranged in at least one row extending in a second direction. The near wall cooling channels are each provided at one end with an inlet for the supply of cooling air, and on the other end with an outlet for the discharge of cooling air. The inlets open into a common feeding channel for cooling air supply, and the outlets open into a common discharge channel for cooling air discharge. The feeding channel and the discharge channel extend in the second direction. | 06-05-2014 |