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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1980
Joseph E Faucher, East Hartford, CT (US);
Richard R Wright, Willimantic, CT (US);
Francis C Pane, Jr, South Windsor, CT (US);
David Kwoka, Windsor, CT (US);
Edmund E Striebel, South Windsor, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A fuel nozzle designed to reduce pollutant emissions and minimize the buildup of coke in the secondary fuel passage of a dual orifice fuel nozzle for the combustor of a gas turbine engine sizes the orifices and passages of the air and fuel so as to increase the pressure in the secondary passage during its inoperative mode and when the primary fuel passage is in the operative mode and having the air and fuel issuing from both the primary and secondary orifices swirl in the same direction.