US3817690A - Combustion devices - Google Patents
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- US3817690A US3817690A US00302395A US30239572A US3817690A US 3817690 A US3817690 A US 3817690A US 00302395 A US00302395 A US 00302395A US 30239572 A US30239572 A US 30239572A US 3817690 A US3817690 A US 3817690A
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23R—GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
- F23R3/00—Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel
- F23R3/02—Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the air-flow or gas-flow configuration
- F23R3/16—Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the air-flow or gas-flow configuration with devices inside the flame tube or the combustion chamber to influence the air or gas flow
- F23R3/18—Flame stabilising means, e.g. flame holders for after-burners of jet-propulsion plants
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- ABSTRACT Primary Examiner-Meyer Perlin Assistant Examiner-Larry I. Schwartz Attorney, Agent, or FirmCameron, Kerkam, Sutton, Stowell & Stowell [57] ABSTRACT
- the invention relates to combustion devices wherein a flame stabilisation zone is formed in the wake of a body disposed in a swiftly moving gas stream.
- the invention provides a combustion device comprising a bluff-body disposed in a gas stream, the body having an aerodynamically smooth upstream-facing portion terminating downstream through a step change of section in a substantially flat downstream-facing surface extending transversely to the direction of flow of the stream, and means for influencing flow over the body to induce stable vortex formation adjacent said downstream facing surface.
- Such means comprise suction means, suction being applied from the interior of the body in each region of the step change of section.
- Combustion devices may include a flow divider extending downstream of the downstream facing surface to separate vortices originating at the step change of section.
- the present invention relates to combustion devices wherein a flame stabilisation zone is formed in the wake of a body disposed in a swiftly moving gas stream.
- baffles In aircraft gas turbine jet propulsion engines, extra power can be developed by burning additional fuel in an afterburner. It has long been the practice in such installations to use fixed baffles to produce stable turbulent (or recirculation) zones in their wakes wherein flames will maintain themselves. Such baffles offer undesirable resistance to flow during such time as afterbuming is not in operation.
- One of the more common forms of fixed baffle is a V-shaped gutter having its apex pointing upstream of the flow, the extreme simplicity of the arrangement tending to outweigh adverse considerations. By setting the arms to an included angle of the order of 45, or slightly less according to flow velocity, a reasonable optimum between resistance and the provision of an adequate recirculation zone can be obtained.
- baffle resistance can be critical in de- 7 termining the total amount of afterbuming which can be employed, and an after-bumer system having a lower pressure loss when in the non-operating condition is desirable, provided that the penalties arising out of other considerations are not too severe.
- the present invention is concerned with means directed towards this end.
- One of the more common forms of device comprises a body having a profile which normally gives rise to low drag and from which flow is caused to separate when afterbuming is required by discharging air or other gas from the body across the direction of main flow. It has also been proposed, for example in prior Brit. Pat. No. 1,2 l 8, l 22, to utilise a body normally giving rise to high drag with resultant turbulent wake and, when after-burning is not required, to influence the boundary layer of flow over the body so as to reduce the wake.
- the present invention is on similar lines but wake reduction is achieved in somewhat different manner.
- a combustion device comprises a member disposed within a gas flow duct so as to produce a flame stabilisation zone in a swiftly moving gas stream and having a bluff-body configuration including a smooth upstream-facing portion with step change of section to a substantially flat downstream-facin g surface extending transversely relative to the direction of flow through the duct, and means for influencing flow over the member to induce stable vortex formation adjacent said downstream-facing surface.
- suction is applied from the interior of the member in the region of the step change of section.
- FIGURE is an axial section through an afterburner duct including a flame stabiliser.
- the afterburner duct shown in the FIGURE comprises a cylindrical casing 1 extending between a turbine outlet and a jet propulsion nozzle (neither of which is shown), the direction of gas flow being from left to right as indicated by the arrows at the left.
- An annular tubular member 2 mounted coaxially within the duct has an aerofoil leading-edge surface 3 directed upstream relative to flow through the duct and terminates downstream in a flat surface 4 normal to the streamwise axis of the member, a step change of section occurring between the two surfaces.
- Annular ori fices 5, 6 extend through the peripheral boundary of the member 2 in the region of change of section between the surfaces 3, 4.
- Gases passing along the duct will flow around the curved surface 3 of the member 2 as far as the change of section. In the absence of any external influence, flow will separate from the member 2 at the change of section to form turbulent recirculation zones in its wake as shown in the upper part of the drawing. Liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon fuel introduced into the duct and ignited will burn in the recirculation zone where the turbulence will act to maintain a flame pattern.
- the fuel supply is discontinued and suction is applied to the interior of the member 2.
- the suction acts by way of the orifices 5, 6, as indicated by the arrows S in the lower part of the drawing, on flow passing over the member 2 to form vortices V adjacent to the downstream facing surface 4.
- the amount of suction applied is sufficient to maintain rotation of the vortices at a velocity similar to that of the normal flow through the duct, entrainment of the latter will occur causing it to be changed to a streamline stable flow pattern within a very short distance, with consequent drag reduction.
- the orifices 5, 6 may be in the form of substantially continuous slots extending around the member 2, or in the form of a series of shorter slots or they may be de fined by a row of holes.
- a flow divider extending along the duct from the downstream-facing surface 4, as indicated in dotted lines at 7 in the drawing, in order to keep the vortices separate and of the same order of magnitude since there may be a possibility of one entraining the other.
- a combustion device for installation in a gas flow duct to form therein a flame stabilisation zone, said combustion device comprising a member having a bluff-body configuration including an aerodynamically smooth upstream-facing portion, said portion terminating downstream through a step change of section of the member in a substantially flat downstream facing surface extending transversely relative to the direction of said flow, and suction means establishing low pressure in the interior of the member to influence said gas flow over said member, a stable vortex formation adjacent said downstream-facing surface being induced thereby, said member having at least one opening in each region of step change at opposite edge portions of said downstream-facing surface wherethrough suction is applied.
- a combustion device as claimed in claim 1 including a flow divider extending downstream of said downstream-facing surface whereby vortices originating at said step change of section at opposite edge portions of said downstream-facing surface are separated.
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GB5063571A GB1376319A (en) | 1971-11-01 | 1971-11-01 | Combustion devices |
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JP (1) | JPS4875915A (de) |
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FR (1) | FR2169784B1 (de) |
GB (1) | GB1376319A (de) |
Cited By (13)
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US4048797A (en) * | 1974-12-06 | 1977-09-20 | The Secretary Of State For Defence In Her Britannic Majesty's Government Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland | Combustion apparatus |
US4051670A (en) * | 1975-05-30 | 1977-10-04 | United Technologies Corporation | Suction vent at recirculation zone of combustor |
US4336789A (en) * | 1978-10-05 | 1982-06-29 | Rinnai Kabushiki Kaisha | Cooking gas oven |
US4790744A (en) * | 1986-03-14 | 1988-12-13 | Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique | Burner with low emission of polluting gases |
US5236327A (en) * | 1990-11-16 | 1993-08-17 | American Gas Association | Low NOx burner |
US5323614A (en) * | 1992-01-13 | 1994-06-28 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Combustor for gas turbine |
US5588825A (en) * | 1995-12-13 | 1996-12-31 | Governers Of The University Of Alberta | Lean premixed fuel burner |
US6575733B1 (en) * | 1997-11-10 | 2003-06-10 | Gourmeli International N.V. | Fuel combustion method and reactor |
US20050026096A1 (en) * | 2001-11-23 | 2005-02-03 | Staffler Franz Josef | Streamlined body and combustion apparatus having such a streamlined body |
US20090151360A1 (en) * | 2007-12-18 | 2009-06-18 | United Technologies Corporation | Combustor |
US20130133329A1 (en) * | 2011-11-25 | 2013-05-30 | Institute Of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences | Air fuel premixer having arrayed mixing vanes for gas turbine combustor |
US20130327046A1 (en) * | 2012-06-06 | 2013-12-12 | General Electric Company | Combustor assembly having a fuel pre-mixer |
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US2771743A (en) * | 1951-08-10 | 1956-11-27 | Rolls Royce | Gas-turbine engine with reheat combustion equipment |
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US2771743A (en) * | 1951-08-10 | 1956-11-27 | Rolls Royce | Gas-turbine engine with reheat combustion equipment |
US3600892A (en) * | 1968-06-10 | 1971-08-24 | Technology Uk | Combustion devices |
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Cited By (18)
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US4048797A (en) * | 1974-12-06 | 1977-09-20 | The Secretary Of State For Defence In Her Britannic Majesty's Government Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland | Combustion apparatus |
US4051670A (en) * | 1975-05-30 | 1977-10-04 | United Technologies Corporation | Suction vent at recirculation zone of combustor |
US4336789A (en) * | 1978-10-05 | 1982-06-29 | Rinnai Kabushiki Kaisha | Cooking gas oven |
US4790744A (en) * | 1986-03-14 | 1988-12-13 | Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique | Burner with low emission of polluting gases |
US5236327A (en) * | 1990-11-16 | 1993-08-17 | American Gas Association | Low NOx burner |
US5460513A (en) * | 1990-11-16 | 1995-10-24 | American Gas Association | Low NOx burner |
US5323614A (en) * | 1992-01-13 | 1994-06-28 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Combustor for gas turbine |
US5588825A (en) * | 1995-12-13 | 1996-12-31 | Governers Of The University Of Alberta | Lean premixed fuel burner |
US6575733B1 (en) * | 1997-11-10 | 2003-06-10 | Gourmeli International N.V. | Fuel combustion method and reactor |
US8979525B2 (en) | 1997-11-10 | 2015-03-17 | Brambel Trading Internacional LDS | Streamlined body and combustion apparatus |
US20050026096A1 (en) * | 2001-11-23 | 2005-02-03 | Staffler Franz Josef | Streamlined body and combustion apparatus having such a streamlined body |
US20090151360A1 (en) * | 2007-12-18 | 2009-06-18 | United Technologies Corporation | Combustor |
US8800290B2 (en) * | 2007-12-18 | 2014-08-12 | United Technologies Corporation | Combustor |
US20130133329A1 (en) * | 2011-11-25 | 2013-05-30 | Institute Of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences | Air fuel premixer having arrayed mixing vanes for gas turbine combustor |
US9234662B2 (en) * | 2011-11-25 | 2016-01-12 | The Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences | Air fuel premixer having arrayed mixing vanes for gas turbine combustor |
US20130327046A1 (en) * | 2012-06-06 | 2013-12-12 | General Electric Company | Combustor assembly having a fuel pre-mixer |
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FR2169784B1 (de) | 1977-03-18 |
FR2169784A1 (de) | 1973-09-14 |
DE2253390A1 (de) | 1973-05-10 |
JPS4875915A (de) | 1973-10-12 |
GB1376319A (en) | 1974-12-04 |
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