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Bernhard Glaeber

Nikolaos Zarzalis

Thomas Ripplinger

Burkhard Simon

The invention relates to a burner for combustors of gas turbines, the burner having an atomizer nozzle for atomisation of fuel in the combustion air and having a primary and secondary flow channel. In the burners, mostly used in aircraft engines, an extensively homogenous distribution of the air-fuel mixture is to be achieved in the combustor to reduce emissions. The flow channels opening into the combustor are separated from a first component arranged concentrically in relation to the burner axis and having a sleeve-shaped atomizer lip extending cylindrically or conically, and the external secondary flow channel is bounded externally and radially by a second annular component arranged concentrically and having an internal wall extending to converge and diverge. The second component forms an area with the most narrow flow cross-section, and the first component is arranged radially inwards and ends with the atomizer lip at the axial height of the cross-section or upstream thereof. The air flow flows through the flow channels to twist in the same direction. By positioning the atomizer lip at the narrowest flow cross-section in the or just in front of the atomizer nozzle, the fuel can be atomized in a range of the maximum air shear forces with the result that there can be optimal atomization.

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D-82194 Gröbenzell, Germany

Bernhard Glaeber