Film cooling in a combustor operating at fuel-rich exit conditions

Data were taken with a film-cooled test plate placed in the exhaust stream of a rectangular combustor. Results showed that in a fuel-rich zone, fuel entrained into the film-cooling air would burn at the conditions tested. Test conditions were cooling-gas flow rates, 9.5 and 5 percent of total gas flow; cooling-gas velocities, 23 and 12 m/sec; ambient-temperature cooling gas; hot-gas velocity, nominally 215 m/sec; fuel-air ratio to stoichiometric fuel-air ratio values of 0.1, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.35, resulting in hot-gas temperatures from 590 to 2100 K; and atmospheric pressure. Analytical prediction of wall temperatures agreed reasonably well with experimental results.