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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2005
Mark Durbin, Springboro, OH (US);
Allen M. Danis, Mason, OH (US);
Timothy J. Held, Blanchester, OH (US);
James N. Cooper, Hamilton, OH (US);
Douglas Marti Fortuna, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel Durstock, Forth Wright, KY (US);
Mark Durbin, Springboro, OH (US);
Allen M. Danis, Mason, OH (US);
Timothy J. Held, Blanchester, OH (US);
James N. Cooper, Hamilton, OH (US);
Douglas Marti Fortuna, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel Durstock, Forth Wright, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method facilitates operating a gas turbine engine. The method comprises supplying steam to a nozzle, supplying primary fuel to the nozzle, discharging the steam into a combustor from a plurality of circumferentially-spaced steam outlets defined in a tip of the nozzle, and discharging the primary fuel into the combustor from at least one outlet that is spaced circumferentially between the steam outlets.