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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2007
Applicant:
Curtis C. Cowan, East Hampton, CT (US);
Inventor:
Curtis C. Cowan, East Hampton, CT (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A gas turbine engine is piloted with a pilot flow of fuel delivered to a combustor as a liquid. A first additional flow of the fuel is also delivered to the combustor as a liquid. A second additional flow of the fuel is vaporized and delivered to the combustor as a vapor. A fuel injector may have passageways associated with each of the three flows.