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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Mark David Durbin, Springboro, OH (US);
Timothy James Held, Blanchester, OH (US);
Hukam Chand Mongia, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A mixer assembly for use in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine. The assembly includes a pilot mixer and a main mixer. The pilot mixer includes an annular pilot housing having a hollow interior, a pilot fuel nozzle mounted in the housing and adapted for dispensing droplets of fuel to the hollow interior of the pilot housing, and one or more axial swirlers positioned upstream from the pilot fuel nozzle. The main mixer includes a main housing surrounding the pilot housing and defining an annular cavity, an annular fuel injector having a plurality of fuel injection ports arranged in a circular pattern surrounding the pilot housing and mounted inside the annular cavity of the main mixer for releasing droplets of fuel into swirling air downstream from the fuel injector, and one or more axial swirlers positioned upstream from the plurality of fuel injection ports.