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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2005
Steven W. Burd, Cheshire, CT (US);
Albert K. Cheung, East Hampton, CT (US);
Dae K. Dempsey, Greenwood, IN (US);
James B. Hoke, Tolland, CT (US);
Stephen K. Kramer, Cromwell, CT (US);
John T. Ols, Coventry, CT (US);
Reid Dyer Curtis Smith, Amston, CT (US);
William A. Sowa, Simsbury, CT (US);
Steven W. Burd, Cheshire, CT (US);
Albert K. Cheung, East Hampton, CT (US);
Dae K. Dempsey, Greenwood, IN (US);
James B. Hoke, Tolland, CT (US);
Stephen K. Kramer, Cromwell, CT (US);
John T. Ols, Coventry, CT (US);
Reid Dyer Curtis Smith, Amston, CT (US);
William A. Sowa, Simsbury, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine has a combustor module including an annular combustor having a liner assembly that defines an annular combustion chamber having a length, L. The liner assembly includes a radially inner liner, a radially outer liner that circumscribes the inner liner, and a bulkhead, having a height, H, which extends between the respective forward ends of the inner liner and the outer liner. The combustor has an exit height, H, at the respective aft ends of the inner liner and the outer liner interior. The annular combustor has a ratio H/Hhaving a value less than or equal to 1.7. The annular combustor may also have a ration L/Hhaving a value less than or equal to 6.0.