Compact Combustor Integrated (CI) with Compressor and Turbine for Perspective Turbojet Engine

Abstract

For several years, CIAM has conducted comprehensive work on the development the combustor integrated (CI) with air swirling. This project involved an integrated development of three components: diffuser, combustion chamber and nozzle guide vanes of turbine to reduce their length and, respectively, the length of the engine and obtain high performance elements with low emissions of harmful substances. The new frontal device was proposed for CI combustor. The design optimization of this type combustor was conducted in the compartments and in a full-size combustion chamber. It was shown the possibility of obtaining high combustion efficiency and low NOx emissions at a short length on cruise condition. By a simplified model of the frontal device it was shown experimentally that the proposed device provided a lighting-up and flame spreading in a wide range of equivalence ratio ER (ER > 0.014) at idling. It was shown that short vane diffuser with moderate swirling ensured high parameters of the combustion chamber. The use of residual swirling of the combustion products at the exit of combustor allows reducing the size, or the number of nozzle guide vanes of the turbine. In General, the use of the swirling of the air stream gives a possibility of total length reduction for all three elements by about 20 – 25 %.