Slag-melting burner apparatus

A slag-melting burner apparatus for a two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier that combusts pulverized coal carried by a gas in a combustor and feeds pulverized coal similarly carried by a gas to a combustion gas in a reductor to carbonize and gasify the pulverized coal while discharging incombustible residue from a slag hole as molten slag, the slag-melting burner apparatus, comprising:

• a leading end of the burner apparatus configured to be located in the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier, the leading end of the burner apparatus having a double-walled structure including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder,
• wherein cooling water for cooling the leading end of the burner apparatus is supplied through an interior of the inner cylinder to cool an extremity of the leading end of the burner apparatus and is then returned to a base end through a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder;
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• wherein a front chamber is provided for partitioning the interior of the outer cylinder into a first space on the leading end side and a second space on a base end side, and the front chamber includes a large-diameter portion at the base end side of the outer cylinder, in which an outer circumferential surface of the large-diameter portion is flush with an outer circumferential surface of the outer cylinder, and includes a small-diameter portion at a leading end side of the burner apparatus, in which an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder is flush with an outer circumferential surface of the small-diameter portion,
• wherein the front chamber has a first hole for guiding the cooling water into the front chamber, and a second hole for discharging the cooling water from the front chamber, the first and second holes extending in a longitudinal direction of the burner apparatus,
• wherein the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder, and a swirling flow along a guide formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder and a substantially linear flow in a longitudinal direction of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, at a position between an end surface of the guide and an inner circumferential surface of the outer cylinder opposing the guide, are applied to the cooling water returned to the base end through the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder,
• the cooling water from a channel formed between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion of the front chamber is discharged to an outside through a third hole defined by a rear chamber provided at the base end side of the burner apparatus, and
• wherein the outer cylinder is configured to be directly exposed in the two-stage entrained flow bed coal gasifier.