Gas turbine premixing systems

GO Kraemer, B Varatharajan, AT Evulet… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
Methods and systems are provided for premixing combustion fuel and air within gas
turbines. In one embodiment, a combustor includes an upstream mixing panel configured to …

Burner

CO Paschereit, B Schuermans - US Patent 8,029,273, 2011 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A burner is disclosed which includes a vortex generator for a combustion
air stream, means for the admission of fuel into the combustion air stream and air inlet ducts …

Method of operating a multi-stage flamesheet combustor

PJ Stuttaford, K Oumejjoud, F Hernandez… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
The present invention discloses a novel way of controlling a gas turbine engine using
detected temperatures and detected turbine rotor speed. An operating system provides a …

Optimization of gas turbine combustion systems low load performance on simple cycle and heat recovery steam generator applications

C Chandler - US Patent 9,671,797, 2017 - Google Patents
Provided herein is a system and method for tuning the operation of a turbine and optimizing
the mechanical life of a heat recovery steam generator. Provided therewith is a turbine …

Pulse jet engine having an acoustically enhanced ejector system

L Laforest, DV Collins - US Patent 8,083,494, 2011 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Pulse combustors have been known for many years. They work on the
principle that a load of mixed fuel and air peri odically enters a combustion chamber where it …

Staged combustion system with ignition-assisted fuel lances

ML Joshi, AG Slavejkov, XJ Li - US Patent 7,303,388, 2007 - Google Patents
Combustion system comprising a furnace having a thermal load and a combustion
atmosphere disposed therein; one or more fuel lances adapted to inject fuel into the …

Automated tuning of gas turbine combustion systems

C Chandler - US Patent 9,267,443, 2016 - Google Patents
The present disclosure provides a tuning system fortuning the operation of a gas turbine.
The system comprises operational turbine controls for controlling operational control …

Automated tuning of multiple fuel gas turbine combustion systems

C Chandler - US Patent 9,354,618, 2016 - Google Patents
Provided herein is a method for automated control of the gas turbine fuel composition
through automated modification of the ratio of fuel gas from multiple sources. The method …

Premix burner with mixing section

HP Knoepfel - US Patent 8,057,224, 2011 - Google Patents
A premix burner has a mixing section (3) for a heat generator, sectional conical shells (5)
which complement one another to form a swirl body, enclose a conically widening swirl …

Gas turbine engine system and an associated method thereof

JM Haynes, ND Joshi, H Chen - US Patent 9,551,492, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The primary air polluting emissions usually produced by turbines burning
conventional hydrocarbon fuels are oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and unburned …