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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Richard L. Hart, Broadalbin, NY (US);
Seung-Hyuck Hong, Clifton Park, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine including a catalytic reactor and a combustor. The catalytic reactor is configured (i) to receive hydrogen fuel, (ii) to receive air containing oxygen, (iii) to catalytically react at least a portion of the oxygen in the air with at least a portion of the hydrogen in the hydrogen fuel to produce water, and (iv) to output diluent comprising the catalytically produced water. The combustor includes (a) a combustion chamber and (b) at least one nozzle that is fluidly coupled to the catalytic reactor to receive the diluent output by the catalytic reactor and configured to inject the diluent into the combustion chamber.