Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation

Pierre M Schroer

Michel A Desaulty

Denis J Sandelis

Jean-Paul D Alary

Christophe Pieussergues

Guy D'Agostino

Henry Roger Leclerc

Mehdi Bensaadi

Joe L Jamet

Sebastien Pierre Pitrou

A fuel injection system is disclosed for a gas turbine engine having a fuel injector issuing a primary fuel flow during all operating modes of the gas turbine engine and a secondary fuel flow when operating parameters of the gas turbine engine exceed predetermined values. The fuel injection system includes a first air swirler, a second air swirler located rearwardly of the first air swirler and a venturi having a wall with a converging-diverging inner wall surface forming a venturi throat, the venturi being located such that the wall separates first and second air flows issuing from the first and second air swirlers and such that the primary fuel flow emanating from the fuel injector in a conical configuration does not impact against the inner wall surface of the venturi.

Aerodynamic fuel injection system for a gas turbine engine

A diffuser for a turbojet engine is disclosed in which a plurality of diffuser inlets are arranged in a substantially circular array bounded by inner and outer diffuser walls and by a plurality of partitions extending generally radially from the axis of the annular diffuser. The plurality of diffuser inlets are located so as to receive air or oxidizer from the turbojet engine compressor and the radial partitions may be integrated into the compressor guide vanes. The diffuser has a plurality of sets of diffuser outlets, each set comprising a plurality of diffuser outlets arranged in a circular array about the central axis of the diffuser. The radius of each set of diffuser outlets is different from the radius of each of the other sets of diffuser outlets such that the entirety of diffuser outlets comprise a non-circular array. The diffuser may comprise three different sets of diffuser outlets, a first set directing air or oxidizer onto the baffle such that the air or oxidizer passes through openings in the baffle to feed the fuel injector heads. A second set of diffuser outlets may be curved outward at the outlet end so as to direct a portion of the air or oxidizer into the space defined between the outer combustion chamber wail and the outer casing. A third set of diffuser outlets may be curved inwardly at their downstream ends so as to direct a portion of the air or oxidizer into the space between the inner combustion and the inner casing.

Gas turbine diffuser

A wall structure for a gas turbine engine structure, such as a combustion chamber or an afterburner duct is disclosed having a plurality of cooling orifices formed through the wall located in a plurality of odd and even transverse rows, each row having a plurality of cooling orifices located in a plane extending substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of symmetry with the cooling orifices of each odd and even row being circumferentially offset from the cooling orifices of the adjacent upstream corresponding odd and even row. The cooling orifices have a common diameter D and are circumferentially offset a distance d such that distance d is between 0.5 D and D. The axes of the orifices in the odd numbered rows lie on a first main line extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of symmetry and to the oxidizer air flow, and the axes of orifices on the even numbered rows lie on a second main line, also extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of symmetry and to the oxidizer air flow. The axes of the orifices in the adjacent rows lie on secondary lines which extend obliquely to the first and second main lines and also to the longitudinal axis of symmetry. Any weld joints necessary to form the annular combustion chamber or afterburner duct from a plurality of wall segments extend parallel to the secondary lines and may be spaced equidistantly from adjacent secondary lines.

Perforated wall for a gas turbine engine

The present invention relates to a system for cooling a high power fuel injector of a dual fuel injector wherein the system comprises a first fuel supply circuit having a first conduit connecting a fuel feed supply and the high power fuel injector, the first conduit having a terminal end adjacent to a distal end of the high power fuel injector, and a second conduit connecting the terminal end of the first conduit to the low power fuel injector such that all of the fuel supplied to the low power injector first passes through the high power fuel injector. The system also has a second fuel supply circuit, separate from the first fuel supply circuit, which comprises a third conduit connecting the fuel feed supply and the fuel injection orifices of the high power fuel injector so as to supply fuel to the fuel injection orifices.

System for cooling a high power fuel injector of a dual injector

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for supplying fuel to and cooling a fuel injector of a gas turbine engine having a dual head combustion chamber. The method comprises the steps of supplying a total fuel flow to the fuel injector such that at least a portion of the total fuel flow circulates through the high power injector nozzle during all operational modes of the gas turbine engine, including those modes in which the high power injector is not supplying fuel to the combustion chamber, and evacuating unused fuel from the high power injector. The apparatus includes a fuel supply conduit connected to the high power injector to supply at least a portion of the total fuel flow supplied to the fuel injector to the high power injector during all operational modes of the gas turbine engine; a fuel control valve to control the amount of fuel flowing through the fuel injector orifices; and a fuel evacuation conduit connected to the high power injector so as to evacuate unused fuel from the high power injector.

System for supplying fuel to and cooling a fuel injector of a dual head

A gas flow separator for an annular combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine is disclosed in which the radially spaced apart first and second gas flow separator walls which extend axially into the combustion chamber from the combustion chamber upstream end wall each define a plurality of axially extending channels. Each of the channels extends generally axially in an upstream direction from the downstream edge of each of the separator walls such that their axial lengths are less than the axial lengths of the respective separator walls. Both the depth and the width of each of the channels increases from its upstream end point to the downstream edges of the separator walls. The channels may be circumferentially aligned with each other, or the channels of one separator wall may be circumferentially offset from the channels of the other separator wall.

Gas-flow separator for a double dome gas turbine engine combustion

A separator for an annular gas turbine engine combustion chamber is disclosed having a plurality of separator segments arranged in a generally annular configuration to form an annular separator extending from an upstream end wall of a combustion chamber into the combustion chamber so as to separate first and second combustion zones within the combustion chamber. Each of the separator segments has a hollow interior defined by a front wall, an outer wall, an inner wall which has at least a portion tapering or converging towards the outer wall in a direction extending away from the front wall, and first and second sides. The sides define an array of holes communicating with the hollow interior, the positioning of the array of holes on a first sides being different from that of the array of holes on the second sides such that the axes of the holes are out of alignment with each other. The first sides of one separator segment is positioned adjacent to, but spaced apart from a second sides of an adjacent separator segment. Since the array of holes on the first sides is out of alignment with the array of holes on the second sides, pressurized gas within the interior of the hollow segment will pass through the holes in the first and second sides and will impinge upon the adjacent sides so as to cool both the adjacent sides and the sides through which the gas passes.

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Brunoy, France

Pierre M Schroer