United Technologies Corporation

Dae K Dempsey

Steven Wayne Burd

Stephen Karl Kramer

James B Hoke

William Arthur Sowa

Albert K Cheung

John T Ols

Reid Dyer Curtis Smith

A gas turbine engine has a combustor module including an annular combustor having a liner assembly that defines an annular combustion chamber having a length, L. The liner assembly includes a radially inner liner, a radially outer liner that circumscribes the inner liner, and a bulkhead, having a height, H, which extends between the respective forward ends of the inner liner and the outer liner. The combustor has an exit height, H, at the respective aft ends of the inner liner and the outer liner interior. The annular combustor has a ratio H/Hhaving a value less than or equal to 1.7. The annular combustor may also have a ration L/Hhaving a value less than or equal to 6.0.

Gas turbine combustor

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Greenwood, IN, United States of America

Dae K Dempsey