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7594402 Method for the introduction of fuel into a premixing burner  
A method and a device for the introduction of fuel into a premixing burner, with a pilot gas feed and a premix gas feed for the operation of a gas turbine in the entire load range, in which the...
7581382 Gas turbine engine air valve assembly  
A gas turbine engine air valve assembly has first and second valving elements. The second element is rotatable about a first axis relative to the first element. The rotation controls a flow of air...
7581396 Mixer assembly for combustor of a gas turbine engine having a plurality of counter-rotating swirlers  
A mixer assembly for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine, including a pilot mixer, a main mixer, and a fuel manifold positioned between the pilot mixer and the main mixer. The pilot mixer...
7575612 Methods and systems for gasification system waste gas decomposition  
Methods and systems for decomposing ammonia in a gasifier are provided. The system includes a gasifier including a pressure vessel and an injection nozzle extending through the pressure vessel and...
7571612 Gas turbine combustor and fuel supply method for same  
A gas turbine combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle for jetting out liquid fuel; a pre-mixture chamber wall provided with the liquid fuel nozzle at a center thereof, having a hollow conical shape...
7568343 Small gas turbine engine with multiple burn zones  
A small gas turbine engine for use in an UAV such as a cruise missile, the gas turbine having a combustor forming a primary burn zone and a secondary burn zone, and in which fuel is injected into...
7568349 Method for controlling combustion device dynamics  
A method for controlling a combustion dynamics level within a combustion device includes defining a high dynamics operating state at a first fuel split ratio. The first fuel split ratio is a ratio...
7565805 Method for operating gas turbine engine systems  
Methods and systems for operating a gas turbine engine system include an electrical generator configured to provide electrical energy to a load, a gas turbine engine including at least one...
7546740 Nozzle  
A fuel injector has a number of groups of nozzles. The groups are generally concentric with an injector axis. Each nozzle defines a gas flowpath having an outlet for discharging a fuel/air mixture...
7513117 Method for operating a furnace  
A method for operating a furnace with a multi-burner system for generating a hot gas is provided. The furnace has a combustion chamber with a plurality of burners, each having a fuel feed. The...
7509811 Multi-point staging strategy for low emission and stable combustion  
The present invention relates to an improved multi-point injector for use in a gas turbine engine or other types of combustors. The multi-point fuel injector has a plurality of nozzles arranged in...
7509812 Dual ignition system for a gas turbine engine  
A dual channel ignition circuit (Channel A and a Channel B). In a start sequence in which a successful ignition event occurs, an exciter controller first energizes only a primary ignition channel...
7506510 System and method for cooling a staged airblast fuel injector  
A staged fuel injector is disclosed that includes a main fuel circuit for delivering fuel to a main fuel atomizer and a pilot fuel circuit for delivering fuel to a pilot fuel atomizer located...
7493766 Auxiliary electrical power generation  
An auxiliary electrical power supply includes a fuel combustor passively sourced with fuel for combusting fuel and a thermoelectric generator close-coupled to the combustor for converting the heat...
7490471 Swirler assembly  
A swirler assembly. The swirler assembly may include a hub, a vane positioned on the hub, and a fuel supply passageway extending from the hub through the vane. The fuel supply passageway may...
7467518 Externally fueled trapped vortex cavity augmentor  
A gas turbine engine augmentor includes an externally fueled annular trapped vortex cavity having a cavity opening open to an exhaust flowpath and a sole source of fuel located upstream of the...
7454914 Helical channel for distributor and method  
A method of distributing fuel in a fuel nozzle comprises: providing at least two helical channels in the fuel nozzle, each having a channel exit port, providing a fuel inlet cavity in fluid...
7448218 Premix burner and method for burning a low-calorie combustion gas  
The invention relates to a pre-mix burner for burning a low-calorie combustion gas, said burner comprising an air duct which extends along an axis of the burner and can be used to supply combustion...
7437876 Augmenter swirler pilot  
A turbofan gas turbine engine augmenter includes a fuel/air swirler disposed between an axially extending bypass flowpath and an axially extending exhaust flowpath. A swirler inlet is axially open...
7434404 Method for operating a gas turbine combustion chamber including a plurality of burners arranged in groups  
A method for operating a combustion chamber ( 1 ) for a gas turbine. The combustion chamber ( 1 ) has a combustion space ( 2 ) and a plurality of burners ( 3 ), which are each arranged at an inlet...
7430868 Method of operating a thermal power plant  
A method of operating a thermal power plant, such as a gas turbine power plant, in which a rotary unit, such as at least one gas turbine stage, is driven by burning gaseous fuel inside a combustion...
7380402 Method for operating a gas turbine and gas turbine system for carrying out the method  
A method for operating a gas turbine uses a first fuel at full load. An improved emission behavior is achieved by operating the gas turbine ( 11 ) at partial load with a second fuel, which has a...
7377114 Turbine engine pulsed fuel injection utilizing stagger injector operation  
A method to control the output of a turbine engine pulses individual fuel injectors completely on and then completely off in selectable groups rather than in unison. The operation of the groups are...
7370478 Method of controlling a gas combustor of a gas turbine  
A gas combustor has a peripheral premix burner, and a central diffusion burner whose nozzle defines an eccentric first channel housing an ignition device, an axial second channel, and a third...
7367194 Pulse detonation engine system for driving turbine  
A pulse detonation engine system ( 1 ) for driving a turbine is comprises a detonation generator section ( 5 ) including a detonation tube ( 7 ) having a tubular hollow section for permitting...
7343745 Gas turbine combustor and operating method thereof  
A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
7340903 Scalable power generation using a pulsed detonation engine  
A scalable power generator is described. A scalable, portable pulsed detonation engine is coupled to a turbine which drives a generator and using commonly available fuels, electric energy is...
7337614 Engine fueling method  
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...
7322197 Variable rate ignition  
Variable rate ignition method and system that take advantage of knowledge and analysis of environmental conditions and/or operational conditions. A variable ignition rate for igniting the engine...
7310951 Steady-state detonation combustor and steady-state detonation wave generating method  
A steady-state detonation combustor and a steady-state detonation wave generating method, in which a stabilized detonation wave can be generated by generating a hypersonic and unburned premixed...
7308793 Apparatus and method for reducing carbon monoxide emissions  
The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for reducing the carbon monoxide emissions emitted by a pilot injector of a gas turbine combustor. Multiple embodiments of a means for...
7302334 Automatic mapping logic for a combustor in a gas turbine engine  
A mapping device maps each burner mode at various bleed settings to generate control schedules for a combustion controller that ensure combustion dynamic (acoustic) pressures, and emissions limits...
7263833 Fuel injector  
A variable geometry pre-mixing fuel injector ( 50 ) for injecting a fuel/air mix in a downstream direction, comprising: an air inlet ( 60 ); a fuel inlet ( 58 ) positioned downstream of the air...
7243496 Electric flame control using corona discharge enhancement  
A method of operating a combustor ( 10 ), to provide intimately mixed hot combusted gas ( 44 ) for a gas turbine ( 46 ), includes feeding gaseous oxidant ( 12 ) and gaseous fuel ( 16 ) into the...
7237384 Counter swirl shear mixer  
The present invention provides a mixer for a gas turbine combustor comprising a plurality of generally annular walls interconnected by at least a plurality of first vanes. The vanes are oriented at...
7237385 Method of using a combustion chamber for a gas turbine  
A combustion chamber 10 for a gas turbine that operates in a highly diluted mode of combustion has a substantially toroidal plenum 30. At least one combustion fluid injector is located at the...
7225623 Trapped vortex cavity afterburner  
A trapped vortex cavity afterburner includes one or more trapped vortex cavity stages for injecting a fuel/air mixture into a combustion zone. The trapped vortex cavity afterburner is operable to...
7216488 Methods and apparatus for cooling turbine engine combustor ignition devices  
An ignition device assembly for a gas turbine engine combustor includes a body and a shroud. The body extends from an inlet end to an outlet end, and the shroud extends circumferentially around at...
7216486 Method for operating a turbine group  
Relevant fuel-gas properties (X G ) are measured on an ongoing basis while a gas turbine group is operating. The C 2+ alkane content of the fuel gas is of particular interest in this context, since...
7200538 Methods and apparatus for modeling gas turbine engines  
A method enables modeling of a gas turbine engine that includes a pulse detonation system. The method includes providing a pulse detonation modeling system, predicting characteristics of the engine...
7191736 Low emission energy source  
A power generator provides power with minimal CO 2 , NO x , CO, CH 4 , and particulate emissions and substantially greater efficiency as compared to traditional power generation techniques....
7185497 Rich quick mix combustion system  
A premix chamber for a combustor of a gas turbine engine comprises a cylindrical chamber having a premix chamber wall, the cylindrical chamber having a chamber inlet end longitudinally separated...
7181916 Method for operating a reduced center burner in multi-burner combustor  
A method for combustion in a combustor in a gas turbine including: fueling the center fuel nozzle with a fuel-rich mixture of gaseous fuel and air and fueling the outer fuel nozzles with a...
7163086 Lubrication system  
A lubrication system comprises a reservoir for lubricant, lubricant delivery means to deliver lubricant to at least one component to be lubricated, an injector associated with each component, a...
7143583 Gas turbine combustor, combustion method of the gas turbine combustor, and method of remodeling a gas turbine combustor  
A gas turbine combustor comprises a premixed combustion burner disposed on the periphery of a pilot burner, an approximately cylindrical combustor liner disposed on the downstream side of the...
7140183 Premixed exit ring pilot burner  
A burner ( 24 ) which is useful for operating a heat generator includes a first upstream swirl generator ( 17 ) capable of swirling a combustion air stream, a device for injecting at least one fuel...
7137258 Swirler configurations for combustor nozzles and related method  
A combustor includes a center nozzle surrounded by a plurality of outer nozzles, the center nozzle and each of the outer nozzles having a fuel passage and an air passage, with a swirler surrounding...
7127899 Non-swirl dry low NOx (DLN) combustor  
An air/fuel pre-mixer for a gas turbine combustor and a method of pre-mixing air and fuel for a combustor are provided. In one embodiment the pre-mixer includes a first annular premix fuel manifold...
7117676 Apparatus for mixing fluids  
A premixer for a combustor to entrain a selected volume of fuel in an oxidizer to be combusted to heat the oxidizer. The combustor is for a gas powered turbine which employs the hypergolic or high...
7111463 Combustion wave ignition for combustors  
A system, such as a turbine power production system, including a plurality of combustion chambers. The combustion chamber may be provided with an ignition system that allows for substantially...
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