Assemblies and apparatus related to integrating late lean injection into combustion turbine engines

摘要

A transfer tube (34) for use in a late lean injection system of a combustor, wherein the combustor includes an inner radial wall (24), which defines a primary combustion chamber downstream of a primary fuel nozzle, and an outer radial wall (26), which surrounds the inner radial wall forming a flow annulus (27) therebetween, the outer radial wall including a late lean nozzle (33) and a transfer tube (34) including flow directing structure that defines a fluid passageway. At a first end (45), the flow directing structure may include an inlet and attachment means (41) that attach the transfer tube (34) to the late lean nozzle (33). The flow directing structure may have a configuration such that the fluid passageway spans the flow annulus (27) and positions the outlet at a desirable injection point in the inner radial wall (24).