General Electric Company

Krishnendu Chakraborty

Pradeep Naik

Saket Singh

Shai Birmaher

Rimple Rakeshkumar Rangrej

Ravindra Shankar Ganiger

Hiranya Kumar Nath

Perumallu Vukanti

Ajoy Patra

Karthikeyan Sampath

Narasimhan S Sahana

Vijayaraj Sukumar

Daniel J Kirtley

Ranganatha Narasimha Chiranthan

A combustor liner for a combustor of a gas turbine includes an outer liner and an inner liner. The outer liner has an annular outer liner slot dilution opening, with a plurality of outer liner swirl vanes disposed within the annular outer liner slot dilution opening. The inner liner of the combustor liner includes an annular inner liner slot dilution opening, and also includes a plurality of inner liner swirl vanes disposed within the annular inner liner slot dilution opening.

Annular combustor dilution with swirl vanes for lower emissions

A deflector assembly for a combustor defining an operational fluid flow. The deflector assembly includes an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface. One or more fastening mechanisms each extends through the deflector assembly. One or more cooling holes extend through the deflector assembly from the upstream surface to the downstream surface. The one or more cooling holes are located about the one or more fastening mechanisms to operably direct cooling air about the one or more fastening mechanisms at the downstream surface.

Combustor deflector assembly

A liner for a combustor in a gas turbine engine and a related method. The liner includes a liner body having a cold side and a hot side. The liner includes a dilution passage having a concatenated geometry extending through the liner body. The dilution passage is configured (i) to integrate a first dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side and a second dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side into an integrated dilution air flow, and (ii) to inject the integrated dilution air flow into a core primary combustion zone of the combustor to attain a predetermined combustion state of the combustor.

Combustion liner having a dilution passage

A combustor liner for a combustor of a gas turbine includes an outer liner having a plurality of outer liner segments, and an inner liner having a plurality of inner liner segments. Each segment of the inner liner and the outer liner includes at least one slotted dilution opening therethrough extending in a circumferential direction, and each slotted dilution opening includes a deflector wall extending radially from the respective liner into a dilution zone of a combustion chamber between the outer liner and the inner liner. The at least one slotted dilution opening may be a curved slot (either concave or convex) dilution opening, and the curved slot dilution openings for each segment of the outer liner and the inner liner may be connected so as to provide a wavy slotted dilution opening extending annularly through the outer liner and the inner liner.

Wavy annular dilution slots for lower emissions

A liner for a combustor in a gas turbine engine and a related method. The liner includes a liner body having a cold side and a hot side. The liner includes a dilution passage having a concatenated geometry extending through the liner body. The concatenated geometry has a plurality of discrete dilution holes, an annular slot, and a plurality of dilution inserts. The dilution passage is configured (i) to integrate a first dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side and a second dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side into an integrated dilution air flow, and (ii) to inject the integrated dilution air flow into a core primary combustion zone of the combustor to attain a predetermined combustion state of the combustor.

Combustion liner

A liner for a combustor in a gas turbine engine. The liner includes a liner body having a cold side and a hot side. The liner includes a dilution passage having a concatenated geometry extending through the liner body. The concatenated geometry has a plurality of discrete dilution holes, an annular slot, and a fence concatenated with the plurality of discrete dilution holes. The dilution passage is configured (i) to integrate a first dilution air flow flowing through the plurality of discrete dilution holes from the cold side to the hot side and a second dilution air flow flowing through the annular slot from the cold side to the hot side into an integrated dilution air flow, and (ii) to inject the integrated dilution air flow into a core primary combustion zone of the combustor to attain a predetermined combustion state of the combustor.

A liner for a combustor in a gas turbine engine and a related method. The liner includes a liner body having a cold side and a hot side. The liner includes a dilution array having a plurality of dilution passages, each dilution passage of the plurality of dilution passages having a concatenated geometry repeating in a predetermined pattern and extending circumferentially around the liner body. The dilution passage integrates a first dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side and a second dilution air flow flowing through the dilution passage from the cold side to the hot side into an integrated dilution air flow and injects the integrated dilution air flow into a core primary combustion zone of the combustor to attain a predetermined combustion state of the combustor. The dilution array is repeated along an axial length of the liner body.

A combustor liner for a combustor of a gas turbine includes an outer liner and an inner liner. At least one of the outer liner and the inner liner has an upstream liner portion and a downstream liner portion with an annular gap therebetween. At least one dilution flow assembly is arranged to bridge across the annular gap. The at least one dilution flow assembly includes an upstream liner panel and a downstream liner panel with a dilution opening provided between the upstream liner panel and the downstream liner panel, and a plurality of dilution fence members arranged within the dilution opening and extending into a combustion chamber. The plurality of dilution fence members are arranged in successive arrangement in a circumferential direction and are arranged such that successive dilution fence members are alternatingly offset in an axial direction.

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