Effect of Combustor-inlet Conditions on Performance of an Annular Turbojet Combustor


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The combustion performance and particularly the phenomenon of altitude operational limits was studied by operating the annular combustor of a turbojet engine over a range of conditions of air flow, inlet pressure, inlet temperature, and fuel flow. The combustor investigated was not the latest version of this combustor and the data are presented primarily because they are indicative of general trends and phenomena that apply to a large class of turbojet combustors.



















Effects of Fuel Nozzle Design on Performance of an Experimental Annular Combustor Using Natural Gas Fuel


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Tests of various fuel nozzles were conducted with natural gas fuel in a full-annulus combustor. The nozzles were designed to provide either axial, angled, or radial fuel injection. Each fuel nozzle was evaluated by measuring combustion efficiency at relatively severe combustor operating conditions. Combustor blowout and altitude ignition tests were also used to evaluate nozzle designs. Results indicate that angled injection gave higher combustion efficiency, less tendency toward combustion instability, and altitude relight characteristics equal to or superior to those of the other fuel nozzles that were tested.







Effects of Radial and Circumferential Inlet Velocity Profile Distortions on Performance of a Short-length Double-annular Ram-induction Combustor


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Inlet air velocity profile tests were conducted on a full-scale short-length 102-centimeter-diameter annual combustor designed for advanced gas turbine engine applications. The inlet profiles studied include radial distortions that were center peaked, and tip peaked, as well as a circumferential distortion which was center peaked for one-third of the circumference and flat for the other two-thirds. An increase in combustor pressure loss was the most significant effect of the radial air velocity distortions. With the circumferential distortion, exit temperature pattern factor doubled when compared to a flat velocity profile.