EP3354984B1 - Injecteur à lobes pour une chambre de combustion de turbine à gaz - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F23R—GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- the present invention relates to the technology of gas turbines. It refers to a lobed injector for a gas turbine combustor according to the preamble of claim 1
- FIG. 1 An exemplary gas turbine of the applicant with sequential combustion is shown in Fig. 1 .
- Gas turbine 10 of Fig. 1 comprises a rotor 11 with a plurality of blades rotating about a machine axis 20 and being surrounded by a casing 12. Air is taken in at air inlet 13 and is compressed by compressor 14. The compressed air is used to burn a first fuel in a first (annular) combustor 15, thereby generating hot gas. The hot gas drives a first, high pressure (HP) turbine 16, is then reheated in a second (annular, sequential) combustor 17, drives a second, low pressure (LP) turbine 18 and exits gas turbine 10 through exhaust gas outlet 19.
- HP high pressure
- LP low pressure
- the operating conditions allow self ignition (spontaneous ignition) of the fuel air mixture without additional energy being supplied to the mixture.
- the residence time therein must not exceed the auto ignition delay time.
- This criterion ensures flame-free zones inside the burner.
- This criterion poses challenges in obtaining appropriate distribution of the fuel across the burner exit area. SEV-burners are currently designed for operation on natural gas and oil only. Therefore, the momentum flux of the fuel is adjusted relative to the momentum flux of the main flow so as to penetrate into the vortices.
- the subsequent mixing of the fuel and the oxidizer at the exit of the mixing zone is just sufficient to allow low NOx emissions (mixing quality) and avoid flashback (residence time), which may be caused by auto ignition of the fuel air mixture in the mixing zone.
- lobed fingers having nozzles to inject oil/fuel and carrier air in the burner and/or mixer.
- One phenomenon that may occur at the outlet of nozzles of lobed fingers is the separation of the mixture of gases and oil/fuel from the fingers. Disadvantages related to flow separation are: a weak pressure gradient; a mixing vortex generates at a larger distance from the nozzle than where there is no separation; separation generates a bubble creating a pressure loss along the flow; and a separation region is a potential flame holder in the reheat combustion and this increases flashback risk.
- US2016146470 discloses a burner of a gas turbine having a duct, a vortex generator extending in the duct and including a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the trailing edge has a first order lobed shape. US2016146470 provides a basis for the two-part form of claim 1.
- US2014123665 discloses a reheat burner arrangement including a center body, an annular duct with a cross-section area and a plurality of lobed radially extending injection devices.
- US2016146468 discloses a lobed injector finger for a burner a gas turbine.
- the invention is accordingly based on the object of providing a lobed injector able to avoid the above-mentioned separation and, at the same time, provide enhanced mixing.
- grouped or alternating neighbouring lobed fingers are the cause to have local combined vortices (grouped) or not (alternating); thus it defines the level of large scale mixing of fuel, cooling air and hot gas.
- the arrangement is defined based on the burner size and possible number of lobed fingers. With current rectangular sequential burner, a four finger arrangement is proper. However, the arrangements will not be limited to four finger arrangement.
- an arrangement of three lobed fingers behaves differently than an arrangement with four fingers or more.
- grouped lobes allow the vortices to combine with each other (two or more vortices can combine into a single vortex) and thereby create large scale structures, which enhance mixing and are thus beneficial for NOx, CO and overall temperature distribution factor (OTDF).
- the lobed fingers according to the present invention can also be used in mixers and/or burners of a gas turbine.
- the burner may be either annular or rectangular and the relative combustor may be either an annular combustor or a can combustor.
- Lobe lance 21 of Fig. 2 which is preferably to be used with a rectangular burner, comprises four separate fingers 22a-d extending in parallel between an upper plate 25 and a lower plate 26.
- Each finger 22 is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile (like an airfoil).
- the body has two lateral surfaces essentially parallel to an axial hot gas flow with inflow direction 32, which passes through the lance between upper and lower plates 25, 26.
- the lateral surfaces are joined at their upstream side by a leading edge 23 and joined at their downstream side forming a trailing edge 24.
- a plurality of nozzles 27 for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air is distributed along the trailing edge 24.
- Each of said fingers 22 has an air plenum 30 for air supply, a gas plenum 31 for gaseous fuel supply, and a liquid fuel supply 29.
- Means for improving the mixing quality and reducing pressure loss in said secondary combustor are provided in the trailing edge region of said body in form of lobes 28 running between the nozzles 27 at the trailing edge 24.
- Lobes 28 of the various fingers 22 generate vortices in the downstream flow of the fuel/air mixture, whereby the vortex flow of the different fingers 22 interact with each other. This interaction, which is able to enhance the mixing effect, depends on the orientation of lobes 28 in each finger.
- the lobes 28 of the different fingers 22a-d may have two different orientations.
- the lobes 28 of the left two fingers 22a and 22b have the same orientation, which is opposite to the orientation of the lobes 28 of the right two fingers 22c and 22d.
- the lobe orientation of fingers 22a and 22b is said to be R (for right), while the lobe orientation of fingers 22c and 22d is said to be L (for left).
- Fig. 2 shows, in a bottom right corner, rotation direction of vortexes due to lobes at the outlet of two nozzle 27.
- Each vortex is induced by the pressure difference between two corrugated surfaces 40a and 40b of fingers 22, which surfaces converge and are joined along corrugated trailing edge 24 where nozzles 27 are located.
- surfaces 40 define the airfoil cross section of finger 22.
- fingers 22 comprises a plurality of vortex generators, in particular micro vortex generators, projecting from corrugated surfaces 40a, 40b to control in a passive way the flow in the region of lobes 28.
- Fig. 3-4 depict respective enlarged suction or concave sides of a lobe 28.
- vortex generators 42 are set in an array and are substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel to a transversal direction D perpendicular to a straight line connecting the axes of two adjacent nozzles 27.
- direction D is parallel to direction 32.
- location along the flow direction is such that vortex generators 42 intercept a plane containing the axes of two adjacent nozzles 27. A trace of such a plane is the straight vertical line of figure 3 connecting the axes of nozzles 27.
- vortex generators 42 are located between such plane and trailing edge 24, as shown in Fig. 3 . Such a location provides an improved interaction with the flow in order to decrease separation.
- vortex generators 42 are inclined with respect to direction D such that a trailing edge 43 of a vortex generator 42 is proximal to a respective nozzle 27 and a leading edge 44 of the vortex generator 42 is distal from the respective nozzle 27.
- Vortex generators 42 of fig. 4 are divergent along inflow direction 32. According to the layout of fig. 4 , the separation is not prevented but the bubble is forced to be in a position with a low or null influence to the reheat combustion.
- vortex generators 42 of fig. 4 control the flow in the surroundings of the relative nozzle 27 in a region A1 at the convergence of lobe 28 with the relative nozzle 27. In such regions, boundary layer flow is accelerated to prevent separation.
- vortex generators 42 of figure 4 locate separation, if any, in a transversal tip region A2 of lobe 28 that is far away, in particular furthest away, from nozzles 27. In this way there is little if any impact of possible separation in the area of nozzles 27.
- location of vortex generators of Fig. 4 is the same as that described in the previous paragraph.
- Fig. 4 shows an example of vortex generators 42 intercepting the plane containing the axes of two adjacent nozzles.
- vortex generators 42 may have additional positions on the suction side of the respective lobe 28.
- Fig. 5a shows a preferred two dimensional embodiment of a vortex generator 42 having a fin-like or substantially triangular shape with a length L along surfaces 40a or 40b, a height H that is proximal to or coincides with trailing edge 43 and a width W, preferably a constant width.
- Figure 5b shows an alternative and three-dimensional embodiment of a vortex generator 42, having a tetrahedral shape.
- Figure 5c shows a further three-dimensional embodiment obtained by halving the tetrahedral shape of Fig. 5b with a symmetry plane.
- a trailing half portion TP of vortex generator 42 has a maximum height that is greater than a maximum height of a leading half portion LP.
- a leading portion and a trailing portion of vortex generator 42 are defined with respect to flow direction (shown by the arrow of Fig. 5b ).
- embodiments of Fig. 5 show a maximum height of the vortex generator 42 defined by the relative trailing edge 43.
- Vortex generators 42 are applicable to any lobed finger 22.
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- Doigt d'injecteur à lobes pour un brûleur ou mélangeur d'une turbine à gaz comprenant un bord d'attaque (23), un bord de fuite à lobes (24), une première et une seconde surface ondulée (40a, 40b) définissant une section transversale de profil aérodynamique et convergeant dans le bord de fuite (24), et une pluralité de buses (27) positionnées au niveau du bord de fuite (24) pour l'injection d'huile ou de combustible ou d'air porteur dans le brûleur ou le mélangeur, le doigt d'injecteur à lobes comprenant une pluralité de générateurs de tourbillon (42) faisant saillie depuis un côté d'aspiration des lobes (28) définis par les première et seconde surfaces ondulées (40a, 40b) et positionnés à partir des buses (27) afin de réduire la séparation d'écoulement et/ou l'influence de l'emplacement d'une bulle de séparation ; dans lequel les générateurs de tourbillon (42) sont inclinés par rapport à une direction (D) sensiblement perpendiculaire à une ligne droite raccordant les axes de deux buses (27) adjacentes ; caractérisé en ce que les générateurs de tourbillon (42) divergent vers le bord de fuite (24) de manière à localiser une région de séparation (A2) adjacente à une pointe transversale du lobe (28) et accélérer l'écoulement de couche de limite dans une région (A1) adjacente à la buse (27).
- Doigt d'injection à lobes selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les générateurs de tourbillon (42) ont un angle d'incidence inférieur ou égal à 5° par rapport à une direction d'entrée (32).
- Doigt d'injection à lobes selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une demi-partie de fuite (TP) du générateur de tourbillon (42) a une première hauteur maximum qui est supérieure à une seconde hauteur maximum d'une demi-partie d'attaque (LP) du générateur de tourbillon (42).
- Doigt d'injection à lobes selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les générateurs de tourbillon (42) ont une forme triangulaire ou une forme d'ailette ou une forme de tétraèdre ou une forme de demi-tétraèdre.
- Doigt d'injecteur à lobes selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les générateurs de tourbillon (42) ont une hauteur (H) inférieure ou égale à 4 mm et/ou une longueur (L) entre 5 et 10 mm et/ou une largeur (W) entre 1 et 2 mm.
- Doigt d'injecteur à lobes selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un angle de pénétration du bord de fuite à lobes (24) est supérieur à 40°.
- Doigt d'injecteur à lobes selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'on ne prévoit pas de trous sur les surfaces (40a, 40b) dans la plage d'approximativement 0,5 mm ou moins pour fournir un film de refroidissement du côté de l'aspiration.
- Brûleur d'une turbine à gaz comprenant une pluralité de doigts d'injection à lobes (22) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
- Mélangeur d'une turbine à gaz comprenant une pluralité de doigts d'injection à lobes (22) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
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