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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2012
Abdul Rafey Khan, Greenville, SC (US);
Bradley Donald Crawley, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Greenville, SC (US);
Mohan Krishna Bobba, Greenville, SC (US);
Abdul Rafey Khan, Greenville, SC (US);
Bradley Donald Crawley, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Greenville, SC (US);
Mohan Krishna Bobba, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Present embodiments are directed toward reducing low flow or no flow situations in a head end of a turbine combustor. Embodiments include a system having a turbine combustor. The turbine combustor includes a fuel nozzle having an inner shell and an outer shell, and a feed cap disposed about the fuel nozzle and having an outer wall and a back plate. The back plate joins respective upstream ends of the outer shell of the fuel nozzle and the outer wall of the feed cap. The turbine combustor is configured to flow a first pressurized air via an air path extending along the outer wall of the feed cap, the back plate of the feed cap, and into the fuel nozzle.