The U.S. Air Froce is conducting a comprehensive research program aimed at improving the design and analysis capabilities for flame stability and lean blowout in the combustors of aircraft gas turbine engines. As part of this program, a simplified version of a generic gas turbine combustor is used. The intent is to provide an experimental data base against which lean blowout modeling might be evaluated and calibrated. The design features of the combustor and its instrumentation are highlighted, and the test facility is described. Lean blowout results for gaseous propane fuel are presented over a range of operating conditions are thre different dome flow splits. Comparison of results with those of a simplified research combustor is also made. Lean blowout behavior is complex, so that simple phenomenological correlations of experiments, data will not be general enough for use as design tools.


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    Title :

    Lean blowout research in a generic gas turbine combustor with high optical access


    Additional title:

    Forschung über Magergasaustritt in einer Gasturbinenbrennkammer mit Sichtzugang


    Contributors:
    Sturgess, G.J. (author) / Shouse, D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    12 Seiten, 22 Bilder, 15 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






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