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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2025
Applicant:

Rtx Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);

Inventors:

Timothy Snyder, Glastonbury, CT (US);

Dibesh Joshi, South Windsor, CT (US);

Robert Sonntag, Bolton, CT (US);

Miguel Negron Lopez, Camuy, PR;

Assignee:

RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/06 (2006.01); F23R 3/00 (2006.01); F23R 3/10 (2006.01); F23R 3/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/06 (2013.01); F23R 3/002 (2013.01); F23R 3/10 (2013.01); F23R 3/28 (2013.01); F05D 2270/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A combustor for rich-quench-lean combustion includes a combustor shell, a combustion chamber delimited by the combustor shell, and fuel injectors. The combustion chamber includes a primary zone, a quench zone, a secondary zone, and an outlet arranged in axial flow series. Openings through the combustor in the quench zone provide a quench air flow into the quench zone. A method for rich-quench-lean combustion for the combustor includes contemporaneously injecting a rich air-fuel mixture into the primary zone and injecting a second air flow into the quench zone in which the second air flow is equal to or less than four times the primary air flow.


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