Combustion section with a primary combustor and a set of secondary combustors

US12429220B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Pradeep Naik · Kanchinakote, IN
• Clayton Stuart Cooper · Loveland, US
• Perumallu Vukanti · Bengaluru, IN
• Michael A. Benjamin · Cincinnati, US
• Steven C. Vise · Loveland, US
• Sripathi Mohan · Bengaluru, IN
• Ajoy Patra · Bengaluru, IN
• Karthikeyan Sampath · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2023
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2025
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23R3/343
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A turbine engine with a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline. The combustion section including a primary combustor liner having an inner liner and an outer liner. A dome wall and a dome inlet are located in the dome wall. At least one opening is located in the outer liner downstream from the dome inlet. A primary combustion chamber and a set of secondary combustors are fluidly coupled to the primary combustion chamber at the at least one opening.