Combustor swirler with vanes incorporating open area

US12241628B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Gurunath Gandikota · Bengaluru, IN
• Karthikeyan Sampath · Bengaluru, IN
• Perumallu Vukanti · Bengaluru, IN
• Allen Michael Danis · Mason, US
• Scott Matthew Bush · Kyles, US
• Steven C. Vise · Loveland, US
• Hari Ravi Chandra · Bengaluru, IN
• Rimple Rangrej · Bengaluru, IN
• Saket Singh · Bengaluru, IN
• Pradeep Naik · Kanchinakote, IN
• Neeraj Mishra · Ahmedabad, IN
• Arvind Kumar Rao · Bengaluru, IN
• Balasubramaniam Venkatanarayanan · Bengaluru, IN
• Ranjeet Kumar Mishra · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 1, 2023
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2025
• Expiry date: Sep 1, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23R3/286
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A swirler assembly for a combustor includes at least one swirler including a plurality of swirl vanes arrayed about an axis of the swirler. The plurality of swirl vanes includes a first ring of first sub-vanes and a second ring of second sub-vanes, the first ring of first sub-vanes and the second ring of second sub-vanes being separated by a gap therebetween.