EP0132927A1 - Verbrennungsverfahren und Brenner - Google Patents

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EP0132927A1
EP0132927A1 EP19840303618 EP84303618A EP0132927A1 EP 0132927 A1 EP0132927 A1 EP 0132927A1 EP 19840303618 EP19840303618 EP 19840303618 EP 84303618 A EP84303618 A EP 84303618A EP 0132927 A1 EP0132927 A1 EP 0132927A1
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Colin Moore
David Paul Jenkins
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23K—FEEDING FUEL TO COMBUSTION APPARATUS
    • F23K1/00—Preparation of lump or pulverulent fuel in readiness for delivery to combustion apparatus
    • F23K1/02—Mixing solid fuel with a liquid, e.g. preparing slurries
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D1/00—Burners for combustion of pulverulent fuel
    • F23D1/005—Burners for combustion of pulverulent fuel burning a mixture of pulverulent fuel delivered as a slurry, i.e. comprising a carrying liquid
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D11/00—Burners using a direct spraying action of liquid droplets or vaporised liquid into the combustion space
    • F23D11/10—Burners using a direct spraying action of liquid droplets or vaporised liquid into the combustion space the spraying being induced by a gaseous medium, e.g. water vapour
    • F23D11/22—Burners using a direct spraying action of liquid droplets or vaporised liquid into the combustion space the spraying being induced by a gaseous medium, e.g. water vapour the gaseous medium being vaporised fuel, e.g. for a soldering lamp, or other gaseous fuel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D11/00—Burners using a direct spraying action of liquid droplets or vaporised liquid into the combustion space
    • F23D11/36—Details, e.g. burner cooling means, noise reduction means
    • F23D11/42—Starting devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2900/00—Special features of, or arrangements for combustion apparatus using fluid fuels or solid fuels suspended in air; Combustion processes therefor
    • F23C2900/99006—Arrangements for starting combustion

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  • This invention relates to a method of combustion and to fuel burners. It is particularly concerned with the combustion of a particulate fuel, particularly pulverised coal, in an aqueous carrier medium.
  • a method of burning a particulate fuel which comprises supplying to a combustion zone and atomising a composition which comprises 50 to 70% by weight of particulate fuel and 30 to 50% by weight of an aqueous carrier and which is able to be pumped without the presence in the composition of an emulsifying agent or lubricant to faciliate such pumping, and also supplying to the combustion zone substantially pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air whereby to support combustion of the particulate fuel.
  • compositions at least until a chosen temperature has been attained in an enclosure being heated by burning the particulate fuel and preferably continuously, whereby to obtain a flame having a temperature profile similar to an oxygen-oil flame.
  • the atomisation is preferably carried out upstream of the combustion zone.
  • the particulate fuel is preferably pulverised coal.
  • coal includes within its scope mineral coal, anthracite coal, sub-bituminous coal and lignite.
  • the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is supplied to the combustion zone at ambient temperature; and so is the said composition.
  • the proportion of coal in the- composition is selected such that the composition is readily able to be pumped without the presence of an emulsifying or other chemical agent or lubricant to facilitate such pumping.
  • a composition including from 5 to 65% by weight of coal and particularly one containing about 60% by weight of coal and a balance of water will meet this criterion.
  • the coal is typically present in the composition in a range of particle sizes.
  • One suitable bituminous coal composition had 73.6% by weight of its particles passing through a sieve of 106 microns in mesh size; 57.8% passing through a sieve of 75 microns (200 mesh) in mesh size and 40.7% passing through a sieve of 40 microns in mesh size.
  • the composition is preferably atomised by introducing an atomising agent into it.
  • the atomising agent is preferably a pressurised noncondensible fluid.
  • Compressed air may for example be used as the atomising agent and may be introduced into the said composition upstream of a burner employed to burn the composition.
  • substantially pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air may be used as the atomising agent, a part of the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air supplied to the combustion zone being used for this purpose.
  • a burner for use in the present invention may be of relatively simple construction.
  • the burner typically has an outer shell (which may have a cooling jacket) and a head or nozzle located within the shell at or near its outlet end.
  • the head or nozzle preferably defines an inner passage or passages for the said composition and may define separate passage(s) for oxygen or oxygen-enriched air, or alternatively may define with the shell one or more passages for this purpose.
  • the tip of the head or nozzle may be coplanar with the tip of the shell or may be set inside the shell.
  • the burner may be provided with a passage for an auxiliary fluid fuel which may be burnt at start-up of the burner in order to facilitate the creation of a stable flame.
  • Propane may be employed as the said auxiliary fuel.
  • the passage for the auxiliary fuel may be formed through the head or nozzle of the burner.
  • the head or nozzle has a passage communicating at one end with the passage for oxygen or oxygen-enriched air (or with one such passage if more than one oxygen or oxygen-enriched air passage is provided) and at its other end with the passage for the sald composition, whereby a proportion of the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is able to be diverted into the passage for the said composition so as to atomise its water.
  • a proportion of the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is able to be diverted into the passage for the said composition so as to atomise its water.
  • from 5% - 10% by volume of the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is so diverted.
  • the present invention also provides a particulate fuel burner f b r burning a composition comprising water and particulate fuel, said burner including a head or nozzle, at least one passage through the head or nozzle for said composition, at least one passage for substantially pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air, and an auxiliary passage affording communication between a (or the) oxygen passage and a (or the) composition passage whereby in operation of the burner oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is able to be conducted into the said composition passage so as to atomise the said composition.
  • a burner 2 has an outer shell 4 and an inner head or nozzle 6.
  • the head or nozzle 6 is coaxial with the shell 4 and is in the form of a monolithic body having a fructo-conical innermost portion 8 diverging in the direction of the burner tip 14, a central right cylindrical portion 10, and an outermost frusto-conical portion 12 converging in the direction of the burner tip 14.
  • the head of nozzle 6 and the shell 4 define therebetween a generally annular passage 16 for substantially pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air.
  • the head or nozzle 6 has a central relatively unrestricted axial passage 18 therethrough for a composition of water and pulverised coal.
  • a conduit 20 is received in the passage 18 and extends between the head or nozzle 6 and a backplate 22 of the burner 2.
  • the backplate 22 is provided with connecting means 24 whereby a suplly of coal-water slurry or composition can be pumpted by means not shown to the conduit 20 and thence the passage 18 of the head or nozzle 6.
  • the shell 4 is similarly provided with connecting means 26 whereby oxygen or oxygen-enriched air may be passed from outside the burner into the interior of the shell 4 and thence to the passage 16.
  • the head of nozzle 6 has a relatively narrow passage 28 therethrough extending parallel to the central passage 18 and receiving a conduit 30.for the supply of propane or other combustible fluid.
  • the conduit 30 is received in the backplate 22 which is provided with a connecting means 32 whereby the conduit 30 can be connected to a source of propane (not shown).
  • the head or nozzle 6 also has an auxiliary passage 34 extending and affording communication between the passage 16 and the passage 18 thereby enabling oxygen to flow from the passage 16 into the passage 18 so as to atomise the water supplied to the passage 18 with the pulverised coal.
  • the head or nozzle 6 is typically formed of copper and is in good heat-conductive relationship with the shell 4.
  • the head or nozzle 6 has integral therewith three equally spaced lugs 36 about the circumference of its right cylindrical portion 10 which engage the inner surface of the shell 4.
  • the shell 4 is typically provded with a jacket (not shown) through which a coolant such as air or water may be circulated so as to prevent the burner 2 from becoming excessively hot during its use.
  • the exposed end of the head or nozzle 6 may be coplanar with that of the shell 4, or the head or nozzle 6 may be inset with respect to the shell 4.
  • the burner 2 is typically provided with means (not shown) for igniting the fule at start-up of the burner 2.
  • means are well known in the combustion art and will accordingly not be further described herein.
  • a composition comprising pulverised coal suspended in water without the presence of emulsifying agents and the like is pumped through the conduit 20 to the passage 18, is atomised and passes from the passage 18 into the burner flame (not shown).
  • Oxygen, of commercial purity, and at or neat to ambient temperature is passed under pressure into the shell 4 and flows through the passage 16 and issues therefrom typically but not necessarily at supersonic velocity and passes into the burner flame where it supports combustion of the pulverised coal.
  • Form 5% - 25% by volume of the oxygen supplied to the shell 4 flows through the passage 34 into the stream of water-pulverised coal suspension flowing through the passage 18.
  • the kinetic energy of the oxygen passing through the passage 34 is sufficient to atomise the water as mentioned above.
  • oxygen is not essential in performing the methods according to the invention to employ the oxygen as the atomising medium.
  • One alternative is to supply compressed air typically at ambient temperature to the suspension of pulverised coal in water as it is being pumpted to the burner 2.
  • Other pressurised fluids that do not condense in the water can alternatively be substituted for the air.
  • the suspension of pulverised coal in water may typically include 60% by weight of pulverised coal and 40% by weight of water.
  • the particles of pulverised coal leave the burner 2 and enter the flame they experience the following sequence of events.
  • the carbon content of the coal burns. In conventional combustion of suspensions of pulverised coal in water using air and not oxygen or oxygen-enriched air to support combustion, the combustion proceeds from the second phase of the combustion process (combustion of volatile vapours evolving from the coal) to the third phase (combustion of carbon).
  • oxygen instead of air is used to support combustion, we hypothesise that the said second and third phases proceed more or less simultaneously rather than consecutively but do not wish to limit the scope of the invention in any way by this hypothesis.
  • substantially all the oxygen molecules that take part in the combustion of the pulverised coal are supplied from the burner 2.
  • the oxygen or oxygen-enriched air may typically be supplied at a rate of from 90X - 110X of that required for complete stiochiometric combustion of the coal.
  • propane may be supplied to the passage 28 via the conduit 30.
  • This supply may, if desired, be stopped once a flame temperature typically in the order of 700°C is achieved. This may take from say 5 - 500 seconds.
  • the passage 18 can be of relatively wide diameter such that blockages caused by the particulate fuel are avoided.
  • the burner 2 may, if desired, fire into a cowl having a refractory inner wall or into a quorl forming part of a furnace.
  • a stock 40 of run of mine coal is screened by means of a screening device 42.
  • the particles that pass through the screen are passed directly into a wet grinder 44.
  • Those retained on the screen are passed into a jaw crusher 46 and the resulting communicated coal fed into the wet grinder 44.
  • a pump 48 takes a suspension of coal dust in water from the stock 40 and pumps it to the wet grinder. If desired, colliery tailings or other colliery waste may be added to this suspension.
  • Sufficient water is fed into the grinder 44 to form a slurry or composition of the desired composition.
  • the resulting slurry is pumped by a pump 50 to a burner system 52 for burning the slurry in accordance with the invention.
  • a chosen proportion of the" slurry may be recycled to the suction side of the pump 50 for the purposes of monitoring flow rate and another proportion recycled to the stock 40 for the purpose of entraining particles of coal dust.
  • suitable fluxes to change the chemical composition of the ash produced by burning the coal may be added to the slurry upstream or downstream of the wet grinder. Such additions are described in our U.K. patent application No. 2 099 132 A.
  • a composition comprising 60X by weight of water and 40X by weight of a coarse fraction of bituminous coal particles was formed.
  • the coarse fraction had a range of particle sizes such that 73.6% by weight passed through a sieve of sieve size 106, 57.8% passed through a sieve of sieve size 75 and 40.7% passed through a sieve of sieve size 40.
  • the fine fraction had a range of particle sizes such that 88.7% by weight passed through a sieve of sieve size 106, 76.8% by weight passed through a sieve of sieve size 75, and 50.7% by weight passed through a sieve of sieve size 40.
  • the coal employed was classified as bituminous 701 coal, had a calorific value of 32 540 KJ/kg, a volatile content of 35.4% by weight, an ash content of 4.6% by weight and a moisture (DAF) content of 0.8% by weight.
  • the composition was burned using a burner generally similar to that shown in Figures 1 and 2 save that no internal passage for forming a pilot flame such as the passage 30 was employed and that no passage equivalent to the passage 34 was used. Instead, an external propane pilot flame and air atomisation (instead of oxygen atomisation) were employed.
  • the burner was fired into a flame tunnel 0.91 m in diameter and 3.66 m long. The burner was tilted downwards at an angle of 30° to the horizontal.
  • a flame profile was obtained with a maximum tunnel wall temperature of 1480° C and is shown in Figure 4. From the shape of the profile, we deduce that flame temperatures in excess of 2000°C can be produced with a coal-water mixture containing 60% by weight of coal of a relatively coarse grinding. It is to be appreciated that the flame produced was short, intense and highly luminous in comparison with air-oil flames and air- pulverised coal flames that are characterised by being long, lazy and less luminous.
  • the 60% by weight water, 40% by weight coal composition was supplied to the burner at a rate of 2.0 kg per minute and temperature of 15°C commercially pure oxygen was supplied at a rate of 2.16 cubic metres per minute, and atomising air at a rate of 0.36 cubic metres per minute.
  • a propane pilot flame was employed. Initially, the propane was supplied at a rate such that the propane supplied 30 of the total thermal energy. When the mean wall temperature had reached 53°C after 4 minutes, the rate at which the propane was supplied was halved and when the mean wall temperature had reached 730 0 c (after about 7 minutes) the supply of propane was stopped and hence the pilot flame was extinguished.

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EP0145389A2 (de) * 1983-12-15 1985-06-19 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen
EP0153760A2 (de) * 1984-03-02 1985-09-04 Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen

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GB1096551A (en) * 1966-06-30 1967-12-29 Foster Wheeler Corp Slurry burner
DE1279883B (de) * 1961-12-15 1968-10-10 Combustion Eng Verfahren zur Erzeugung von Waerme aus einer Schwemme von Kohlegriess und Wasser
GB1223369A (en) * 1968-07-13 1971-02-24 Siemens Ag A method and an installation in which a mixture of coal dust and water is atomised and the coal dust is burned
DE2042030B2 (de) * 1970-08-25 1974-07-18 Bergwerksverband Gmbh, 4300 Essen
GB2099132A (en) * 1981-04-16 1982-12-01 Boc Ltd Fuel burners and their operation
EP0072630A1 (de) * 1981-07-21 1983-02-23 Osaka Gas Co., Ltd Verbrennungsanlage

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DE1279883B (de) * 1961-12-15 1968-10-10 Combustion Eng Verfahren zur Erzeugung von Waerme aus einer Schwemme von Kohlegriess und Wasser
GB1096551A (en) * 1966-06-30 1967-12-29 Foster Wheeler Corp Slurry burner
GB1223369A (en) * 1968-07-13 1971-02-24 Siemens Ag A method and an installation in which a mixture of coal dust and water is atomised and the coal dust is burned
DE2042030B2 (de) * 1970-08-25 1974-07-18 Bergwerksverband Gmbh, 4300 Essen
GB2099132A (en) * 1981-04-16 1982-12-01 Boc Ltd Fuel burners and their operation
EP0072630A1 (de) * 1981-07-21 1983-02-23 Osaka Gas Co., Ltd Verbrennungsanlage

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EP0145389A2 (de) * 1983-12-15 1985-06-19 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen
EP0145389A3 (de) * 1983-12-15 1985-12-18 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen
EP0153760A2 (de) * 1984-03-02 1985-09-04 Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen
EP0153760A3 (de) * 1984-03-02 1985-12-11 Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Verbrennung von Kohle-Wasser-Schlämmen

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