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(11) | EP 2 620 708 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Gas turbine combustor and operating method thereof |
(57) A gas turbine combustor has a chamber supplied with fuel (50) and air (16) and a
multi-burner (6) having a plurality of burners provided with an air hole plate (31)
having a plurality of air holes (32), and fuel nozzles (25) for supplying fuel (50)
to the air holes (32) in the air hole plate (31); the multi-burner (6) is made up
of a center burner (33) disposed in the center and a plurality of outer burners (37)
around the center burner (33), the outer burners (37) are divided into inner fuel
nozzles (25) and outer fuel nozzles (25) to separately supply fuel through fuel systems
(51 - 54), and the fuel (50) is supplied to the fuel nozzles (25) in the center burner
(33) or to the fuel nozzles (25) in the center burner (33) and the inner fuel nozzles
(25) in the outer burners (37) disposed around the center burner (33) in a partial
load condition in which the load is lower than that of when all the fuel systems (51
- 54) are used to supply fuel (50).
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