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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Edward Johnson, Greer, SC (US);
Willy Steve Ziminsky, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Heath Michael Ostebee, Piedmont, SC (US);
Christopher Paul Keener, Woodruff, SC (US);
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/28 (2006.01); F23R 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F23R 3/04 (2013.01); F23R 3/045 (2013.01); F23R 3/286 (2013.01); F23R 2900/00012 (2013.01); Y02T 50/675 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present application provides a combustor for use with flow of fuel and a flow of air in a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a number of micro-mixer fuel nozzles positioned within a liner and an air bypass system position about the liner. The air bypass system variably allows a bypass portion of the flow of air to bypass the micro-mixer fuel nozzles.