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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
May. 22, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Marco Venturato, Lebanon, OH (US);
Bernard Gustav Knolle, Rowley, MA (US);
James Shealy, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Pradeep Naik, Bengaluru, IN;
Brian M. Royer, Newburyport, MA (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustion section having a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The combustor includes a combustion chamber, at least one fuel injector, and a center body located within an air flow path of the fuel injector, where the center body has an internal fuel supply path. A vortex generator is provided on the center body and at least one fuel supply passage includes outlets that emit fuel into the air flow path for mixing the fuel with air in the air flow path.