Abstract:
An adiabatic power generation method and apparatus includes at least one combusting device to combust any suitable fuel and an oxygen-containing gas to produce hot high pressure combustion gases. Also includes modified present art combustors, wind and solar energy sources. A portion of the expanded gases, or ambient air is mixed with the combustion gases to form a mixture of gases as working fluid that is fed to a work-producing device.
Abstract:
A combustion apparatus 2 has a fuel spraying nozzle 12, a feed canal 16 and a return canal 17, both the canals connected to the nozzle, with the former canal 16 feeding a fuel to the nozzle and with the latter canal 17 allowing an un-sprayed portion of the fuel to flow back. An electro-magnetic pump 18 disposed in the feed canal 16 serves to compress the fuel towards the nozzle 12, and an injector valve 25 is disposed in the return canal 17. The injector valve 25 is accommodated in a casing 50 consisting essentially of an inlet joint 46 and an outlet joint 17.
Abstract:
This invention is a fuel injection control system for a turbine engine. The invention uses at least one fuel injector, having means for injecting fuel in pulses to the combustion chamber of a turbine engine, and an electronic control unit to receive and interpret input sensor signals from selected operating functions of the engine and to generate and direct fuel injection signals to modify the pulse duration and/or frequency of fuel injection in response to a deviation from a selected operating function, such as the desired operating speed, caused by variable operating loads encountered by the turbine engine. This configuration provides significantly greater fuel efficiency, better operational control and response time, and a lighter weight than is currently available in turbine engines. The invention may be used in many applications such as commercial, private, experimental and military aviation, power plant turbines, and other industrial, military and mining applications.
Abstract:
A device and method for controlling the flow of a gaseous fuel from a fuel supply to a pressurized combustion chamber. A fuel pump is included in the gas train from supply to chamber. The fuel pump increases the pressure of the gas to allow efficient injection into the chamber. The pump is modulated to control the fuel flow. Both alternating current and pulse-width-modulated direct current signals may be used to control the flow. The pump may be a piston pump or a diaphragm pump. Feedback may be provided from sensors that determine operating parameters of the engine and such sensor signals may be used by the controller to maintain a parameter, such as temperature, at a specified value. An acoustic filter can be included in the gas train to significantly reduce gas flow pulsations generated by the pump. This filter improves the uniformity of the combustion process.
Abstract:
In a combustion unit, a fuel collision member is disposed between a fuel injection valve and a combustion chamber. The fuel collision member is positioned so that, a part of fuel injected from said fuel injection valve is introduced into the combustion chamber while colliding with the fuel collision member, and the other part of fuel is directly introduced into the combustion chamber without colliding with the fuel collision member. Thus, fuel introduced into the combustion chamber is atomized while being introduced into the combustion chamber in a wide range.
Abstract:
A system for supplying fuel to an atomization fuel oil burner nozzle from a fuel pump at a rate less than that rated for the nozzle for burning of less fuel while achieving good combustion. The fuel is delivered to the nozzle at a pulsing frequency which is dynamically matched to intermittent pressure pulses within the fuel pump to create resonant pressure peaks at the nozzle. The fuel pump creates a pressure pulse each time a tooth of one gear of the pump makes full penetration into the space between a pair of teeth of a coacting rotatable ring gear. Rotatable valving structure, including gear ports in the rotatable ring gear pulses fluid flow to the nozzle by alternately connecting a fluid outlet of the pump to either a pressure port within the pump at the time of a pressure pulse or to the fuel pump inlet with the pressure peak of the pulsed flow being phased together with said pressure pulse.
Abstract:
A system and method for modifying the supply of fuel to injectors to attenuate combustion oscillations in a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may comprise a combustor, a plurality of injectors and a manifold. The plurality of injectors may be operable to provide fuel to the combustor. The manifold may be configured to supply fuel to all of the plurality of injectors or to only a portion of the plurality of injectors in reaction to a determination of an existence of combustion oscillations.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and a device for affecting thermoacoustic oscillations in a combustion system (i) comprising at least one burner (2) and at least one combustor (3), modulated injection of fuel being carried out. In order to improve the action of affecting the thermoacoustic oscillations, the modulated injection of the fuel is carried out into a recirculation zone (7) which forms in the combustor (3).
Abstract:
In a known method for heating an industrial furnace by pulsating combustion, gaseous or liquid reactants, comprising an oxidizing agent and fuel, are fed to a burner (3), with the volumetric flow of at least one of the reactants which emerges from the burner mouth (7) being changed over the course of time. On this basis, to provide a method which allows a simple and flexible change to the flow during pulsating combustion, according to the invention it is proposed that the change in the volumetric flow of the reactant over the course of time is generated by electrical actuation imparting deflections to at least one membrane (14) in a membrane space (13) which is connected upstream of the burner mouth (3) and is accessible to the reactant, which deflections cause changes to the volume of the membrane space. A low maintenance apparatus of simple design which is suitable for carrying out the method is distinguished by the fact that the device for varying the volumetric flow over the course of time comprises at least one membrane (14), which is arranged in a membrane space (13) that is connected upstream of the burner (3) and is accessible to the reactant, and on which deflections can be imposed by means of an electrical actuation, which deflections cause a change in the volume of the membrane space (13).
Abstract:
According to the invention, the injector arms comprise a peripheral duct forming part of a primary fuel circuit that delivers fuel continuously, and a central duct forming part of a secondary fuel circuit that delivers fuel at an essentially variable rate.