Experimental diagnostics of the flow downstream the gas turbine premixer using planar optical methods

This paper reports on experimental study of the flow in a model combustion chamber using planar optical methods. The flow was organized by model GT-premixer produced by JSC "EUC-Aviadvigatel", Perm, Russia. The measurements were carried out in a cold flow without combustion at elevated pressure of 2 atm and air flow rate up to 0.5 kg/s. Acetone vapor was seeded to the flow as a tracer of model fuel. The distributions of local concentration were measured using planar laser-induced fluorescence approach. To measure velocity fields by particle image velocimetry technique, water-glycerol particles were introduced to the air flow. Two series of experiments were accomplished for design and off-design conditions. The pressure drop at the GT-premixer was the same for these two cases. The results for off-design conditions show that fuel concentration distribution drastically depends on the scheme of fuel supply.