US 12,215,867 B2
Gas turbine combustor with dynamics mitigation system
Jonathan Dwight Berry, Simpsonville, SC (US); Sven Bethke, Greenville, SC (US); and Bailey Basso, Greenville, SC (US)
Assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed by GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US)
Filed on Dec. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/401,588.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/437,638, filed on Jan. 6, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0230098 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. F23R 3/28 (2006.01); F02C 7/04 (2006.01); F02C 7/12 (2006.01); F02C 7/22 (2006.01); F23D 14/48 (2006.01); F23R 3/00 (2006.01); F23R 3/16 (2006.01); F23R 3/34 (2006.01)
CPC F23R 3/286 (2013.01) [F02C 7/04 (2013.01); F02C 7/12 (2013.01); F02C 7/22 (2013.01); F02C 7/222 (2013.01); F23D 14/48 (2013.01); F23R 3/002 (2013.01); F23R 3/16 (2013.01); F23R 3/28 (2013.01); F23R 3/283 (2013.01); F23R 3/346 (2013.01); F05D 2240/35 (2013.01); F23R 2900/00001 (2013.01); F23R 2900/00014 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the combustor comprising:
a head end section containing a fuel nozzle assembly and defining a head end air plenum; a liner extending downstream from the head end section toward an aft frame and defining a combustion chamber therein;
a first plurality of injectors disposed at a first axial location spaced apart from the head end section to direct a first fuel/air mixture through the liner;
a dynamics mitigation system comprising a plurality of cold-side resonators disposed wholly within the head end air plenum, each resonator of the plurality of cold-side resonators having a resonator body with a closed end and an open neck extending from the resonator body opposite the closed end, wherein the resonator body defines a respective volume, and the open neck is in fluid communication with the head end air plenum, wherein the open neck of at least one resonator in the plurality of cold-side resonators has a smaller diameter than the closed end of the at least one resonator in the plurality of cold-side resonators, and wherein the plurality of cold-side resonators is axially oriented; and
an upstream inner barrel that partially surrounds the head air plenum, wherein the plurality of cold-side resonators is coupled to the upstream inner barrel.