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US 10,948,182 B2Granted
Combustion system for a boiler
AssigneeGeneral Electric Technology GmbH
InventorsThomas Hilber, Thomas Wild, Dragisa Ristic, Noel Francon
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for combustion of solid fuels. The combustion system includes burners which supply a mixed flow of fuel and air through a fuel nozzle to the combustion chamber for example of a boiler. The mixed flow of fuel and primary air is supplied to the burner through a duct from a pulverizer where the fuel is grinded to the required finesse. The duct further bends in such a way that one portion is vertical with respect parallel to axis of the boiler 1 A-A is vertical duct and other portion is horizontal duct which is parallel to axis B-B of the fuel nozzle.
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A combustion system, comprising:
- at least one burner to supply a mixed flow of fuel and primary air through at least one fuel nozzle to a combustion chamber;
- a horizontal duct located upstream from the at least one fuel nozzle, the duct being equipped with a fuel concentrator having at least one deflector to concentrate the mixed flow of fuel in a center of the at least one fuel nozzle, and at least one diverger disposed immediately downstream of the at least one deflector and a point (P, P′) of minimum diameter of the duct interposed between the at least one deflector and the diverger, so as to generate a fuel-rich concentrated jet in the center of the at least one fuel nozzle, wherein the at least one fuel nozzle is further configured to supply the fuel-rich concentrated jet through an outlet of the at least one fuel nozzle to the combustion chamber;
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- secondary air nozzles arranged above and below the at least one fuel nozzle to inject a secondary air in order to maintain a stable flame in the combustion chamber, wherein a slope of converging sides of the at least one deflector has a larger amount than a slope of diverging sides of the diverger that increase the distance from the point (P, P′) of minimum diameter of the duct to an original diameter of the duct;
- wherein the diverger has at least one sloped side so that particles having small mass of the concentrated mixed flow of fuel and primary air move along the at least one diverger towards a wall of the duct to form a lean fuel concentrated jet in other sections than the center of the at least one fuel nozzle;
- wherein the at least one deflector reduces the distance between the converging sides of the at least one deflector at the point (P, P′) of the duct to a range of 50% to 80% of the original distance;
- wherein the deflector has only a single sloped side.
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A method for combustion comprising:
- supplying a mixed flow of fuel and air by at least one burner through at least one fuel nozzle to a combustion chamber, through a duct being equipped with a fuel concentrator having at least one deflector to concentrate the mixed flow of fuel in a center of the at least one fuel nozzle, and at least one diverger provided immediately downstream the at least one deflector;
- injecting secondary air through secondary air nozzles which are arranged above and below the at least one fuel nozzle;
- concentrating particles having large mass of the concentrated mixed flow of fuel and primary air in a center of the duct to form a fuel-rich concentrated jet in the center of the at least one fuel nozzle in that an angling of a wall of the at least one deflector directs the mixed flow of fuel and primary air along the wall of the duct towards the center of the duct;
- allowing the movement of particles having small mass of the concentrated mixed flow of fuel and primary air along the at least one diverger towards the wall of the duct to form a lean fuel concentrated jet in other sections of the at least one fuel nozzle in expanding the duct back to an original volume of the duct with the at least one diverger;
- wherein injecting the secondary air includes injecting the secondary air in order to control combustion of the mixed flow of fuel and primary air in the combustion chamber;
- wherein the duct with the fuel concentrator is located upstream from the at least one fuel nozzle;
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- wherein the at least one deflector and/or the at least one diverger has only a single sloped side for directing the mixed flow of fuel and primary air along the wall of the duct towards the center of the duct, or expanding the duct back to an original volume of the duct, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.