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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2009
Krishna Kumar Venkataraman, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Roy Marshall Washam, Clinton, SC (US);
Hasan Karim, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Jason Charles Terry, Greenville, SC (US);
Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US);
Krishna Kumar Venkataraman, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Roy Marshall Washam, Clinton, SC (US);
Hasan Karim, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Jason Charles Terry, Greenville, SC (US);
Lewis Berkley Davis, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine is provided and includes a late lean injection (LLI) compatible combustor having a first interior in which a first fuel supplied thereto by a fuel circuit is combustible, a turbine, a transition zone, including a second interior in which a second fuel supplied thereto by the fuel circuit and the products of the combustion of the first fuel are combustible, the transition zone being disposed to fluidly couple the combustor and the turbine to one another, and a plurality of fuel injectors, which are structurally supported by the transition zone and coupled to the fuel circuit, and which are configured to supply the second fuel to the second interior in any one of a single axial stage, multiple axial stages, a single axial circumferential stage and multiple axial circumferential stages.