Gas turbine industry is eager to develop new combustion technologies to meet up with the government regulations on emissions
Lean combustion systems – provide high efficiency and low emissions
Lean combustion give rise to instabilities
Instabilities can cause damage to the engines and sometimes catastrophic failure
Experimental facility will help to understand high pressure combustion phenomena
Very few high pressure experimental facilities have been build up but no experimental data has been published
Research Purpose
Design, manufacture and test reward step facing combustor operated on warm, moist, pressurized gas to simulate gas turbine conditions
Reward step combustor geometry can be considered as close approximation to the gas turbine combustor
Combustor geometry has an important role in the development of instabilities (Both the premixer and combustor length can be varied in the experiment)
Rearward step combustor has been tested at 1 bar in Massachusetts Institute of Technology University
The current research will focus on understanding and determining the parameters which causes instabilities in practical combustion systems that operate at elevated pressures and temperatures
Experimental data will be compared with theoretical models and simulated gas turbine systems and will be used as a benchmark to develop minimal instability combustors
Experimental Setup
Design, manufacture and test reward step facing combustor operated on warm, moist, pressurized gas to simulate gas turbine conditions
Reward step combustor geometry can be considered as close approximation to the gas turbine combustor
Combustor geometry has an important role in the development of instabilities (Both the premixer and combustor length can be varied in the experiment)
Rearward step combustor has been tested at 1 bar in Massachusetts Institute of Technology University
The current research will focus on understanding and determining the parameters which causes instabilities in practical combustion systems that operate at elevated pressures and temperatures
Experimental data will be compared with theoretical models and simulated gas turbine systems and will be used as a benchmark to develop minimal instability combustors
