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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Krishnakumar Venkatesan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Michael Anthony Benjamin, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shih-Yang Hsieh, Cohoes, NY (US);
Yuxin Zhang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Owen James Sullivan Rickey, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Nayan Vinodbhai Patel, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Duane Douglas Thomsen, Lebanon, OH (US);
Kevin Vandevoorde, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fuel injection system for use in a combustor of a turbine engine includes a mixer assembly including a mixer housing and a fuel nozzle assembly positioned radially inward of the mixer housing. The fuel nozzle assembly includes a substantially annular fuel injection housing and a substantially annular main fuel injector coupled to the fuel injection housing. The main fuel injector includes a body, a fuel delivery passage defined in the body, a swirl chamber defined in the body downstream of the fuel delivery passage, and a plurality of circumferentially-spaced fuel metering slots defined in the body and coupled in flow communication with and between the fuel delivery passage and the swirl chamber.