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Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme | 2015

Adiabatic Effectiveness and Flow Field Measurements in a Realistic Effusion Cooled Lean Burn Combustor

Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Lorenzo Mazzei; Alessio Picchi; Fabio Turrini

Over the last ten years, there have been significant technological advances toward the reduction of NOx emissions from civil aircraft engines, strongly aimed at meeting stricter and stricter legislation requirements. Nowadays, the most prominent way to meet the target of reducing NOx emissions in modern combustors is represented by lean burn swirl stabilized technology. The high amount of air admitted through a lean burn injection system is characterized by very complex flow structures such as recirculations, vortex breakdown, and precessing vortex core (PVC) that may deeply interact in the near wall region of the combustor liner. This interaction makes challenging the estimation of film cooling distribution, commonly generated by slot and effusion systems. The main purpose of the present work is the characterization of the flow field and the adiabatic effectiveness due to the interaction of swirling flow, generated by real geometry injectors, and a liner cooling scheme made up of a slot injection and an effusion array. The experimental apparatus has been developed within EU project LEMCOTEC (low emissions core-engine technologies) and consists of a nonreactive three-sectors planar rig; the test model is characterized by a complete cooling system and three swirlers, replicating the geometry of a GE Avio PERM (partially evaporated and rapid mixing) injector technology. Flow field measurements have been performed by means of a standard 2D PIV (particle image velocimetry) technique, while adiabatic effectiveness maps have been obtained using PSP (pressure sensitive paint) technique. PIV results show the effect of coolant injection in the corner vortex region, while the PSP measurements highlight the impact of swirled flow on the liner film protection separating the contribution of slot and effusion flows. Furthermore, an additional analysis, exploiting experimental results in terms of heat transfer coefficient, has been performed to estimate the net heat flux reduction (NHFR) on the cooled test plate.


Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme | 2015

Effect of Slot Injection and Effusion Array on the Liner Heat Transfer Coefficient of a Scaled Lean-Burn Combustor With Representative Swirling Flow

Antonio Andreini; Bruno Facchini; Riccardo Becchi; Alessio Picchi; Fabio Turrini

International standards regarding polluting emissions from civil aircraft engines are becoming gradually even more stringent. Nowadays, the most prominent way to meet the target of reducing NOx emissions in modern aero-engine combustors is represented by lean burn technology. Swirl injectors are usually employed to provide the dominant flame stabilization mechanism coupled to high efficiency fuel atomization solutions. These systems generate very complex flow structures such as recirculations, vortex breakdown and processing vortex core, that affect the distribution and therefore the estimation of heat loads on the gas side of the liner as well as the interaction with the cooling system flows.The main purpose of the present work is to provide detailed measurements of Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) on the gas side of a scaled combustor liner highlighting the impact of the cooling flows injected through a slot system and an effusion array. Furthermore, for a deeper understanding of the interaction phenomena between gas and cooling flows, a standard 2D PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) technique has been employed to characterize the combustor flow field.The experimental arrangement has been developed within EU project LEMCOTEC and consists of a non-reactive three sectors planar rig installed in an open loop wind tunnel. Three swirlers, replicating the real geometry of a GE Avio PERM (Partially Evaporated and Rapid Mixing) injector technology, are used to achieve representative swirled flow conditions in the test section. The effusion geometry is composed by a staggered array of 1236 circular holes with an inclination of 30deg, while the slot exit has a constant height of 5mm. The experimental campaign has been carried out using a TLC (Thermochromic Liquid Crystals) steady state technique with a thin Inconel heating foil and imposing several cooling flow conditions in terms of slot coolant consumption and effusion pressure drop. A data reduction procedure has been developed to take into account the non-uniform heat generation and the heat loss across the liner plate.Results, in terms of 2D maps and averaged distributions of HTC have been supported by flow field measurements with 2D PIV technique focussed on the corner recirculation region.Copyright


ASME Turbo Expo 2015: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition | 2015

Effect of Slot Injection and Effusion Array on the Liner Heat Transfer Coefficient of a Scaled Lean Burn Combustor With Representative Swirling Flow

Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Alessio Picchi; Fabio Turrini

International standards regarding polluting emissions from civil aircraft engines are becoming gradually even more stringent. Nowadays, the most prominent way to meet the target of reducing NOx emissions in modern aero-engine combustors is represented by lean burn technology. Swirl injectors are usually employed to provide the dominant flame stabilization mechanism coupled to high efficiency fuel atomization solutions. These systems generate very complex flow structures such as recirculations, vortex breakdown and processing vortex core, that affect the distribution and therefore the estimation of heat loads on the gas side of the liner as well as the interaction with the cooling system flows.The main purpose of the present work is to provide detailed measurements of Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) on the gas side of a scaled combustor liner highlighting the impact of the cooling flows injected through a slot system and an effusion array. Furthermore, for a deeper understanding of the interaction phenomena between gas and cooling flows, a standard 2D PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) technique has been employed to characterize the combustor flow field.The experimental arrangement has been developed within EU project LEMCOTEC and consists of a non-reactive three sectors planar rig installed in an open loop wind tunnel. Three swirlers, replicating the real geometry of a GE Avio PERM (Partially Evaporated and Rapid Mixing) injector technology, are used to achieve representative swirled flow conditions in the test section. The effusion geometry is composed by a staggered array of 1236 circular holes with an inclination of 30deg, while the slot exit has a constant height of 5mm. The experimental campaign has been carried out using a TLC (Thermochromic Liquid Crystals) steady state technique with a thin Inconel heating foil and imposing several cooling flow conditions in terms of slot coolant consumption and effusion pressure drop. A data reduction procedure has been developed to take into account the non-uniform heat generation and the heat loss across the liner plate.Results, in terms of 2D maps and averaged distributions of HTC have been supported by flow field measurements with 2D PIV technique focussed on the corner recirculation region.Copyright


Propulsion and Power Research | 2015

Film cooling adiabatic effectiveness measurements of pressure side trailing edge cooling configurations

Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Alessio Picchi; Lorenzo Tarchi; D. Coutandin; S. Zecchi


International Journal of Thermal Sciences | 2017

The effect of effusion holes inclination angle on the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness in a three-sector gas turbine combustor rig with a realistic swirling flow

Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Alessio Picchi; A. Peschiulli


ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition | 2016

Effusion Cooling System Optimization for Modern Lean Burn Combustor

Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Lorenzo Mazzei; Alessio Picchi; A. Peschiulli


Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions | 2018

Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Novel Natural Gas Low NOx Burners for Heavy Duty Gas Turbine

Matteo Cerutti; Giovanni Riccio; Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Alessio Picchi


Journal of Turbomachinery-transactions of The Asme | 2018

Adiabatic Effectiveness on High Pressure Turbine Nozzle Guide Vanes under Realistic Swirling Conditions

Tommaso Bacci; Riccardo Becchi; Alessio Picchi; Bruno Facchini


Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power-transactions of The Asme | 2018

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NOVEL NATURAL GAS LOW NOX BURNERS FOR HEAVY DUTY GAS TURBINE

Matteo Cerutti; Giovanni Riccio; Antonio Andreini; Riccardo Becchi; Bruno Facchini; Alessio Picchi


ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition | 2018

Adiabatic Effectiveness on High Pressure Turbine Nozzle Guide Vanes Under Realistic Swirling Conditions

Tommaso Bacci; Riccardo Becchi; Alessio Picchi; Bruno Facchini

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