US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 30 for "Annular combustor dilution with swirl vanes for lower emissions" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,221, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Annular combustor dilution with swirl vanes for lower emissions" was invented by Pradeep Naik (Bengaluru, India), Shai Birmaher (Cincinnati), Saket Singh (Bengaluru, India), Rimple Rangrej (Bengaluru, India) and Krishnendu Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor liner for a combustor of a gas turbine includes an outer liner and an inner liner. The outer liner has an annular outer liner slot dilution opening, with a plurality of outer liner swirl vanes disposed within the annular outer liner slot dilution opening. The...