Investigation on turbine inter-vane combustion performance based on fuel cooled vane
To expand the performance of aero-gas turbine engine,a structure of high-pressure turbine inter-vane combustion was proposed.The high-temperature fuel was injected into the inter-vane channel after cooling the vane.And the flame was stabilized by radial vane cavity(RVC).The C3X turbine guide vane was used as the inter-vane combustion model and the effects of radial vane cavity(depth length ratio 0.4-0.6),fuel-air ratio(0.007-0.0105)and fuel temperature(300-500 K)on inter-vane combustion performance were numerically studied.It was observed that the optimization combustion effect was obtained with depth length ratio 0.5.The thermal resistance loss caused by combustion was about 7%,which can realize the approximately isothermal combustion between the vanes.The inter-vane combustion performance decreased with the increase of fuel-air ratio,and the combustion efficiency reached 98.86%at 20 mm away from the blade outlet when the fuel-air ratio was 0.007.The combustion performance of high-temperature fuel in the inter-vane channel was better than that of low-temperature fuel,and the combustion efficiency at the outlet of the blade increased about 13%.The conclusions can provide a reference for the development of inter-vane burner technology.