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US20210095849A1
US20210095849A1 US17/035,954 US202017035954A US2021095849A1 US 20210095849 A1 US20210095849 A1 US 20210095849A1 US 202017035954 A US202017035954 A US 202017035954A US 2021095849 A1 US2021095849 A1 US 2021095849A1
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  • the present invention relates to a gas turbine combustor.
  • combustion methods of gas turbine combustors are roughly classified into diffusion combustion and premixed combustion.
  • the diffusion combustion In the diffusion combustion, fuel is directly injected into a combustion chamber and then mixed with air in the combustion chamber. Therefore, a flashback toward the upstream of the combustion chamber, and autoignition in fuel supply flow passages are less likely occur. Thus, the diffusion combustion provides good combustion stability. On the other hand, in the diffusion combustion, since flames are formed in areas where air is mixed with fuel in a ratio required for complete combustion of the fuel (stoichiometric mixing ratio), high temperature flames are locally generated. Because a large amount of NOx is generated in the local high temperature areas, it is necessary to reduce NOx emissions by injecting an inert medium such as water, steam or nitrogen. This necessitates power for an auxiliary machine that supplies the inert medium, leading to deterioration of the power generation efficiency.
  • an inert medium such as water, steam or nitrogen
  • the lean-combustion combustor includes, for example, an air hole plate having a plurality of air holes and a plurality of fuel nozzles, and a fuel is injected from each fuel nozzle toward a corresponding air hole, and coaxial jets including a fuel flow and an air flow surrounding the fuel flow are supplied to a combustion chamber.
  • This type of combustor includes one having a configuration in which orifices are installed at intermediate portions of fuel flow passages in fuel nozzles for control of the fuel flow rate, and reduction in deviation (Patent Document 2).
  • Patent Document 1 JP-2003-148734-A
  • Patent Document 2 JP-2016-035336-A
  • Combustion oscillation is a type of resonance that occurs because of interference between the fluctuation of heat release by flames and the fluctuation of pressure in a combustion chamber.
  • An occurrence of this combustion oscillation is sometimes accompanied by an occurrence of large amplitude pressure fluctuation at a particular frequency, and this generates concern about occurrence of cracks and damages in a gas turbine structure to deteriorate the structural reliability.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a lean-combustion gas turbine combustor that can suppress occurrence of combustion oscillation, and improve the structural reliability.
  • the present invention provides a gas turbine combustor including: a tubular liner that forms a combustion chamber; and a burner having an air hole plate that is arranged at an inlet of the liner and that is provided with a plurality of air holes for guiding compressed air to the combustion chamber, and a plurality of fuel nozzles arranged on a side opposite to the combustion chamber with the air hole plate being sandwiched therebetween, the plurality of fuel nozzles each injecting a fuel toward a corresponding air hole, the air holes and the fuel nozzles forming a plurality of concentric annular lines.
  • the plurality of fuel nozzles each include an orifice on a fuel flow passage, and are grouped into a plurality of nozzle groups, and axial positions of the orifices are different between the nozzle groups.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a gas turbine power plant including a gas turbine combustor according to a first embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view that represents the configuration of main sections of a burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and includes the central axis of the burner;
  • FIG. 3 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the first embodiment of the present invention as seen from a combustion chamber;
  • FIG. 4 is a figure illustrating a conventional burner structure
  • FIGS. 5A to 5F are figures for explaining the mechanism of occurrence of combustion oscillation
  • FIG. 6 is a figure representing a pressure fluctuation distribution and a fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution in a combustion chamber of a conventional burner
  • FIG. 7 is a figure representing a pressure fluctuation distribution and a fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution in the combustion chamber of the burner according to the first embodiment
  • FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view that represents the configuration of main sections of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and includes the central axis of the burner;
  • FIG. 9 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the second embodiment of the present invention as seen from the combustion chamber;
  • FIG. 10 is a schematic configuration diagram of the gas turbine power plant including the gas turbine combustor according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the third embodiment of the present invention as seen from the combustion chamber.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a gas turbine power plant including a gas turbine combustor according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view that represents the configuration of main sections of a burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and includes the central axis of the burner.
  • FIG. 3 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the first embodiment of the present invention as seen from a combustion chamber.
  • a gas turbine power plant 1 includes an air compressor 2 , a gas turbine combustor (hereinafter, referred to as a combustor for short) 3 , a turbine 4 and a generator 6 .
  • the air compressor 2 sucks and compresses air A 1 , and supplies compressed air A 2 to the combustor 3 .
  • the combustor 3 mixes the compressed air A 2 with a gaseous fuel F, combusts the mixture, and generates a combustion gas G 1 .
  • the turbine 4 is driven by the combustion gas G 1 generated at the combustor 3 , and the combustion gas G 1 that has driven the turbine 4 is emitted as an exhaust gas G 2 .
  • the generator 6 is driven by the rotational motive power of the turbine 4 , and generates power. Note that the gas turbine is driven by a startup motor 7 only at the beginning of startup.
  • the combustor 3 is attached to a casing (not illustrated) of the gas turbine, and includes a liner (inner cylinder) 12 , a flow sleeve (outer cylinder) 10 , a burner 8 and a fuel supplying system 200 .
  • the liner 12 is a cylindrical member, and forms a combustion chamber 5 thereinside.
  • the flow sleeve 10 is a cylindrical member having an internal diameter larger than the diameter of the liner 12 , and surrounds the outer circumference of the liner 12 .
  • the flow sleeve 10 forms a cylindrical air flow passage 9 between itself and the liner 12 .
  • the compressed air A 2 from the air compressor 2 flows in a direction away from the turbine 4 through the air flow passage 9 formed on the outer circumference of the liner 12 by the flow sleeve 10 , thus convection cooling of the outer circumferential surface of the liner 12 is conducted by the compressed air A 2 flowing through the air flow passage 9 .
  • a large number of holes are formed through the wall surface of the liner 12 .
  • a part A 3 of the compressed air A 2 flowing through the air flow passage 9 passes through those holes to flow into the combustion chamber 5 , and film-cools the inner circumferential surface of the liner 12 . Then, the compressed air A 2 having passed through the air flow passage 9 and reached the burner 8 is spouted out for combustion to the combustion chamber 5 together with the gaseous fuel F supplied from the fuel supplying system 200 to the burner 8 . In the combustion chamber 5 , the mixture of the compressed air A 2 and the gaseous fuel F is combusted to generate the combustion gas G 1 .
  • the combustion gas G 1 is supplied to the turbine 4 via a combustor transition piece (not illustrated).
  • the only one burner 8 is arranged at the inlet of the liner 12 , i.e., at an opening at an end section on the side opposite to the side the turbine 4 is located, and includes an air hole plate 20 , fuel nozzles 21 to 23 and a fuel distributor (fuel header) 24 .
  • the air hole plate 20 is a circular plate coaxial with the liner 12 , and is arranged at the inlet of the liner 12 , i.e., at the opening at the end section on the side opposite to the side the turbine 4 is located.
  • the air hole plate 20 includes a plurality of air holes 51 to 53 that guide the compressed air A 2 to the combustion chamber 5 .
  • the plurality of air holes 51 to 53 form a plurality of concentric annular lines having their center on a central axis O of the liner 12 .
  • the air holes 51 belong to the first (innermost) annular line
  • the air holes 52 belong to the second annular line
  • the air holes 53 belong to the third (outermost) annular line.
  • the air holes 51 to 53 are provided at swirl angles, and the outlet of each hole is shifted toward one side in the circumferential direction relative to the inlet of the hole.
  • the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 are supported by the fuel distributor 24 , and are arranged on a side opposite to the combustion chamber 5 with the air hole plate 20 being sandwiched therebetween.
  • the numbers and positions of the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 correspond to the numbers and positions of the air holes 51 to 53 (one fuel nozzle corresponds to one air hole), and the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 form, together with the air holes 51 to 53 , a plurality of concentric annular lines having their center on the central axis O of the liner 12 .
  • the fuel nozzles 21 belong to the first (innermost) annular line
  • the fuel nozzles 22 belong to the second annular line
  • the fuel nozzles 23 belong to the third (outermost) annular line.
  • the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 have injection ports opening toward the inlets of corresponding air holes, and inject the gaseous fuel F toward those corresponding air holes.
  • outer annular lines have larger numbers of fuel nozzles and air holes. That is, the numbers of the fuel nozzles 21 and air holes 51 in the first (innermost) line (the six fuel nozzles 21 , and the six air holes 51 in the example illustrated in FIG. 3 ) are smaller than the numbers of the fuel nozzles 22 and air holes 52 in the second line (the twelve fuel nozzles 22 , and the twelve air holes 52 in the example illustrated in FIG. 3 ).
  • the numbers of the fuel nozzles 22 and air holes 52 in the second line are smaller than the numbers of the fuel nozzles 23 and air holes 53 in the third (outermost) line (the eighteen fuel nozzles 23 , and the eighteen air holes 53 in the example illustrated in FIG. 3 ).
  • the fuel distributor 24 is a member that supplies the fuel separately to the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 , and includes a plurality of fuel cavities 25 and 26 thereinside.
  • the fuel cavities 25 and 26 are spaces that play a role of supplying the gaseous fuel F separately to a plurality of fuel nozzles belonging to corresponding annular lines.
  • the fuel cavity 25 is formed to have a columnar shape on the central axis O of the liner 12
  • the fuel cavity 26 is formed to have a cylindrical shape such that the fuel cavity 26 surrounds the outer circumference of the fuel cavity 25 .
  • each of the fuel nozzles 21 is connected to the fuel cavity 25
  • each of the fuel nozzles 22 and 23 is connected to the fuel cavity 26 .
  • the gaseous fuel F supplied to the fuel cavity 25 is distributed to each fuel nozzle 21 arranged in the innermost annular line and then spouted out, and the gaseous fuel F having been spouted out from the fuel nozzle 21 is spouted out together with the compressed air A 2 from each air hole 51 to the combustion chamber 5 .
  • the gaseous fuel F supplied to the fuel cavity 26 is distributed to each of the fuel nozzle 22 and 23 arranged in the second and third annular line and then spouted out, and the gaseous fuel F having been spouted out from the fuel nozzle 22 and 23 is spouted out together with the compressed air A 2 from the air holes 52 and 53 to the combustion chamber 5 .
  • the plurality of fuel nozzles 21 to 23 include orifices 71 to 73 , respectively, on their fuel flow passages.
  • One fuel nozzle includes only one orifice.
  • the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 (all the fuel nozzles) are grouped into a plurality of nozzle groups, and the axial positions of orifices are different between nozzle groups.
  • fuel nozzles grouped into the same nozzle group belong to the same annular line.
  • the fuel nozzles 21 in the innermost line belong a first nozzle group
  • the fuel nozzles 22 in the second line belong a second nozzle group
  • the fuel nozzles 23 in the outermost line belong a third nozzle group.
  • an orifice 71 is provided to each fuel nozzle 21
  • an orifice 72 is provided to each fuel nozzle 22
  • an orifice 73 is provided to each fuel nozzle 23 .
  • air holes represented without hatching in FIG. 3 correspond to the orifices 71 .
  • Air holes differently represented by hatching sloping upward to the right correspond to the orifices 72
  • air holes differently represented by hatching sloping downward to the right correspond to the orifices 73 .
  • the orifices 71 to 73 are different to each other in axial position.
  • the distance L 2 from the outlets of the orifices 72 to the outlets (injection ports) of the fuel nozzles 22 is longer than the distance L 1 from the outlets of the orifices 71 to the outlets of the fuel nozzles 21 .
  • the distance L 3 from the orifices 73 to the outlets of the fuel nozzles 23 is still longer than the distance L 2 (L 1 ⁇ L 2 ⁇ L 3 ).
  • the axial positions of the outlets of the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 are the same, and the orifices 71 , 72 and 73 are arranged in this order from the side of the combustion chamber 5 .
  • the orifices 71 are at positions which are in the middle of the fuel nozzles 21 in the axial direction or are closer to the combustion chamber 5 than the middle, the orifices 73 are at inlet sections of the fuel nozzles 23 , and the orifices 72 are at intermediate axial positions between the orifices 71 and 73 .
  • the order from the combustion chamber 5 side can be changed.
  • the orifices 73 , 72 and 71 may be arranged in this order from the combustion chamber 5 side, and may be arranged in the order of the orifices 73 , 71 and 72 from the combustion chamber 5 side.
  • the axial positions of orifices of fuel nozzles belonging to the same annular line coincide with each other, and the fuel is to be supplied from the same fuel cavity to all the fuel nozzles having orifices at the same position.
  • All the fuel nozzles 21 include the orifices 71 at the same position, and these fuel nozzles 21 receive a supply of the fuel from the same fuel cavity 25 .
  • all the fuel nozzles 22 include the orifices 72 at the same position, and receive a supply of the fuel from the same fuel cavity 26 .
  • All the fuel nozzles 23 include the orifices 73 at the same position, and receive a supply of the fuel from the fuel cavity 26 .
  • the opening diameters of the orifices 71 belonging to the innermost annular line are made larger than the opening diameters of the orifices 73 belonging to the outermost annular line.
  • the opening diameters of the orifices 72 belonging to the second annular line can be set to opening diameters within the range from the opening diameters of the orifices 71 to the opening diameters of the orifices 73 inclusive, and are made equal to the opening diameters of the orifices 73 in the present embodiment.
  • the opening diameters of the outlets (injection ports) of the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 are larger than the opening diameters of the orifices 71 to 73 so as to avoid increase in pressure loss that may otherwise be caused by further narrowing the fuel flows having been narrowed at the orifices 71 to 73 .
  • the fuel supplying system 200 includes a fuel supplying source 56 , a main flow pipeline 57 , branch pipelines 58 and 59 , a fuel shut valve 60 and fuel flow control valves 61 and 62 .
  • the main flow pipeline 57 extends from the fuel supplying source 56 , and the main flow pipeline 57 branches into the two branch pipelines 58 and 59 .
  • the branch pipeline 58 is connected to the fuel cavity 25 , and the branch pipeline 59 is connected to the fuel cavity 26 .
  • the fuel shut valve 60 is provided on the main flow pipeline 57
  • the fuel flow control valve 61 is provided on the branch pipeline 58
  • the fuel flow control valve 62 is provided on the branch pipeline 59 .
  • the fuel flow control valves 61 and 62 play a role of controlling the flow rates of the fuel flowing through the branch pipelines 58 and 59 in accordance with their openings, and the flows of the fuel through the branch pipelines 58 and 59 can also be shut off by fully closing the fuel flow control valves 61 and 62 .
  • the supply flow rate of the fuel to the fuel cavity 25 is increased, and the amount of fuel-injection from the fuel nozzles 21 is increased, which in turn increases the fuel-air ratio of coaxial jets being spouted out from the air holes 51 .
  • the opening of the fuel flow control valve 62 from its fully closed state, the supply flow rate of the fuel to the fuel cavity 26 is increased, and the amount of fuel-injection from the fuel nozzles 22 and 23 is increased, which in turn increases the fuel-air ratio of coaxial jets being spouted out from the air holes 52 and 53 .
  • gaseous fuel F supplied from the fuel supplying source 56 other than natural gas which is a typical gas turbine fuel, a petroleum gas or a gas containing hydrogen or carbon monoxide such as a coke oven gas, a refinery off-gas, or a coal-derived gas can be used.
  • natural gas which is a typical gas turbine fuel
  • a petroleum gas or a gas containing hydrogen or carbon monoxide such as a coke oven gas, a refinery off-gas, or a coal-derived gas
  • FIG. 4 A conventional burner structure is illustrated in FIG. 4 .
  • the figure illustrates a burner having a plurality of air holes and fuel nozzles arranged therein in three concentric annular lines as in the present embodiment, and the fuel nozzles in all the three lines have orifices Z that are uniformly installed therein at the same axial position.
  • FIGS. 5A to 5F are figures for explaining the mechanism of occurrence of combustion oscillation.
  • the graphs of FIGS. 5A to 5F represent temporal changes in pressure, fuel supplying differential pressure, fuel flow rate and heat release that are observed near (an area E in FIG. 4 ) the outlets of fuel nozzle tips of the burner or in a combustion chamber (an area C in FIG. 4 ) on the downstream side of the burner. It has been found in recent years that interference between pressure fluctuation and fluctuation of heat release by flames in the combustion chamber causes combustion oscillation by a mechanism like the one illustrated by the following (a) to (f). The explanations of (a) to (f) correspond to FIGS. 5A to 5F , respectively.
  • the fuel flow rate in the area C fluctuates with a phase delay by the convection time ⁇ conv of the fuel from the area E to the area C with respect to the fuel flow rate fluctuation in the area E and the fuel-air ratio in the area C also fluctuates in the same phase.
  • FIG. 6 is a figure representing a pressure fluctuation distribution and a fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution in the combustion chamber of the conventional burner.
  • the pressure fluctuation distribution is represented by representing maxima/minima of the amplitude that fluctuates in the axial direction (peaks/troughs of the fluctuation amplitude) by shading.
  • FIG. 6 represents the fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution by representing maxima/minima of the amplitude that fluctuates in the axial direction (peaks/troughs of the fluctuation amplitude) by sinusoidal waves. Planes passing through points of the same phases in the pressure fluctuation distribution in the combustion chamber become parallel to a burner surface (air hole plate).
  • FIG. 7 is a figure representing a pressure fluctuation distribution and a fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution in the combustion chamber of the burner according to the first embodiment. Similar to FIG. 6 , FIG. 7 also illustrates peaks/troughs of the fluctuation amplitude in the pressure fluctuation distribution and the fuel flow rate fluctuation distribution by shading and sinusoidal waves, respectively. Planes passing through points of the same phases in the pressure fluctuation distribution in the combustion chamber become parallel to the burner surface in the present embodiment also, as in the conventional burner.
  • the fuel flows of the gaseous fuel F are injected separately from a large number of the fuel nozzles 21 to 23 , and each fuel flow is individually caused to pass through a corresponding one of the air holes 51 to 53 .
  • each fuel flow is individually caused to pass through a corresponding one of the air holes 51 to 53 .
  • the number of types of fuel nozzles to be fabricated can be reduced, and this contributes to reduction in fabrication cost of fuel nozzles.
  • the opening diameters of the orifices 71 provided to the fuel nozzles 21 belonging to the innermost annular line are made larger than the opening diameters of the orifices 73 provided to the fuel nozzles 23 belonging to the outermost annular line.
  • FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view that represents the configuration of main sections of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and includes the central axis of the burner.
  • FIG. 9 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the second embodiment of the present invention as seen from the combustion chamber. These FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 correspond to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 illustrating the first embodiment, respectively.
  • the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that annular lines are grouped into a plurality of areas X 1 to X 3 in the circumferential direction, nozzle groups are grouped in accordance with these areas X 1 to X 3 , and fuel nozzles having orifices at different axial positions are mixedly present in the same annular line.
  • the orifices 71 to 73 belonging to the area X 1 are at the same axial position at a distance L 4 from the nozzle outlets, and the orifices 71 to 73 belonging to the area X 2 are at the same axial position at a distance L 5 (>L 4 ) from the nozzle outlets.
  • the orifices 71 to 73 belonging to the area X 3 are at the same axial position at a distance L 6 (>L 5 ) from the nozzle outlets.
  • the air holes 51 to 53 in the area X 1 represented without hatching in FIG. 9 correspond to the orifices 71 to 73 at the position at the distance L 4 .
  • the air holes 51 to 53 in the area X 2 differently represented by hatching sloping upward to the right correspond to the orifices 71 to 73 at the position at the distance L 5
  • the air holes 51 to 53 in the area X 3 differently represented by hatching sloping downward to the right correspond to the orifices 71 to 73 at the position at the distance L 6 .
  • the fuel nozzles 21 having the orifices 71 at different axial positions are mixedly present in the first (innermost) annular line.
  • the fuel nozzles 22 having the orifices 72 at different axial positions are mixedly present in the second annular line
  • the fuel nozzles 23 having the orifices 73 at different axial positions are mixedly present in the third (outermost) annular line.
  • the following effects can be attained in addition to the effects described in (1) and (3) that are similar to the first embodiment.
  • the gas turbine according to the present embodiment starts running, after the gaseous fuel F is supplied to the fuel nozzles 21 in the first (innermost) line, and ignited, the gaseous fuel F is supplied also to the fuel nozzles 22 and 23 in the second and third lines under a part load condition, and the load is raised to a base load condition.
  • FIG. 10 is a schematic configuration diagram of the gas turbine power plant including the gas turbine combustor according to a third embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 11 is a figure of the burner provided to the gas turbine combustor according to the present embodiment as seen from the combustion chamber.
  • the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment and the second embodiment in that the present invention is applied to a multi burner including a plurality of burners.
  • the combustor 3 according to the present embodiment includes a pilot burner 31 and a plurality of main burners 32 (six burners 32 in the present example), and the plurality of main burners 32 are arranged to surround the circumference of the one pilot burner 31 arranged in the middle.
  • the burner 8 according to the first embodiment or the second embodiment can be applied as the pilot burner 31 and the individual main burners 32 .
  • the burner 8 according to the first embodiment can be applied to all of the pilot burner 31 and the main burners 32
  • the burner 8 according to the second embodiment can be applied to all of the pilot burner 31 and the main burners 32
  • the burner 8 according to the first embodiment and the burner 8 according to the second embodiment can also be mixedly present as appropriate.
  • the air hole plate 20 can be shared by the pilot burner 31 and the plurality of main burners 32 (the air holes 51 to 53 for the individual burners can be formed through the one air hole plate 20 ).
  • the number of the sets of the branch pipelines 58 and 59 that branch off from the main flow pipeline 57 is equal to the total number (seven in the present example) of the pilot burner 31 and main burners 32 , and the branch pipelines 58 and 59 are connected to the fuel cavities 25 and 26 of corresponding burners.
  • the main burners 32 may be configured such that at least two burners share a fuel supplying system (the branch pipeline 59 and the fuel flow control valve 62 ). Similar to the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the main flow pipeline 57 and the branch pipelines 58 and 59 are provided with the fuel shut valve 60 , and the fuel flow control valves 61 and 62 , respectively.
  • the present embodiment is similar to the first embodiment and the second embodiment in other aspects.

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