Experimental Investigation of GTX100 Combustor Liner Cooling System
The liner cooling for GTX100’s annular combustor has been successfully tested. Because of high heat load at the flame attachment point, a good design is very important. The design presented here offers robustness and high performance, combined with no dilution. The cooling system is a turbulated convective design, which were experimentally investigated in a plastic (perspex) model of a full scale 60° sector of the combustor. The importance of a high performance liner cooling is obvious. This design generates low pressure drop, better combustion (circumferential even flow from the liner cooling) and it gives lower flame temperature (minimizes the emissions). The influence of disturbances on the cooling and burner performance is presented in this paper.