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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2004
Meredith B. Colket, Iii, Simsbury, CT (US);
Meredith B. Colket, III, Simsbury, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine using a rich-lean catalytic combustion system includes a rich catalytic burner and a lean catalytic burner. The rich catalytic burner includes a rich catalytic reactor and a heat exchanger. The rich catalytic reactor catalytically burns a fuel rich mixture to provide a heated fuel. The heat exchanger receives a stream of air that absorbs a portion of the heat from the catalytic burning of the fuel rich mixture to keep the reaction in the rich catalytic reactor at or below a threshold temperature. A resulting heated air from the heat exchanger and the heated fuel are mixed in a mixing zone to provide a heated fuel-air mixture. The lean catalytic burner receives and burns the heated fuel-air mixture.