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An Experimental Study of Instability Mode Analysis in a Model Gas Turbine Combustor  

Lee, Jang-Su (서울대학교 기계항공공학부)
Kim, Min-Ki (서울대학교 기계항공공학부)
Park, Sung-Soon (서울대학교 기계항공공학부)
Lee, Jong-Guen (펜실베니아 주립대학교)
Yoon, Young-Bin (서울대학교 기계항공공학부)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion / v.15, no.1, 2010 , pp. 12-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
The main objective of this study was investigation of combustion instability characteristics in a lean partially premixed gas turbine dump combustor. Dynamic pressure transducers were located on combustor and inlet section to observe combustion pressure oscillation and difference at each measurement places. Also flame shape and $CH^*$ chemiluminescence were measured using a high speed ICCD camera. The combustor length was varied in order to have different acoustic characteristics from 800 to 1090 mm. The first section of this paper shows the stability map in model gas turbine combustor. And the effects of combustor length, mixture velocity in the mixing section and equivalence ratio were studied by the pressure perturbation and heat release oscillation. Also, the instability frequency and mode analysis were studied in last two sections. We observed two dominant instability frequencies in this study. Lower frequencies were obtained at lower equivalence ratio region and it was associated with a fundamental longitudinal mode of combustor length. Higher frequencies were observed in higher equivalence ratio conditions. It was related to secondary longitudinal mode of combustor and mixing section. In this instability characteristics, pressure oscillation of mixing section part was larger than pressure oscillation of combustor. As a result, combustion instability was strongly affected by acoustic characteristics of combustor and mixing section geometry.
Keywords
Model gas turbine combustor; Combustion instability; Mode analysis; Partially premixed flame;
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