# US 9,518,306 B2 · Top-firing hot blast stove > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,518,306 B2 - Document ID: US9518306B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/005,019 - Filed: 2012-03-13 - Published: 2014-01-02 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2011-03-15 - Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Norimasa Maekawa; Koya Inoue; Hiroshi Shimazu; Shunji Koya; Naoki Kunishige; Nobuhiro Ohshita - Inventors: Norimasa Maekawa; Koya Inoue; Hiroshi Shimazu; Shunji Koya; Naoki Kunishige; Nobuhiro Ohshita - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9518306B2 ## CPC - C21B 9/14: Preheating the combustion air - C21B 9/10: Other details, e.g. blast mains - F23D 14/22: with separate air and gas feed ducts, e.g. with ducts running parallel or crossing each other - F23D 2209/20: Flame lift-off / stability - F23D 2900/14241: Post-mixing with swirling means - F23D 2900/21001: for use in blast furnaces - C21B: MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL (preliminary treatment of ferrous ores or scrap C22B1/00) - F23D: BURNERS ## Abstract There is provided a top-firing hot blast stove including a burner and a burner duct capable of stabilizing an ignition point at a desired position inside the burner duct and suppressing occurrence of blinking phenomenon so as to achieve high combustion efficiency. A top-firing hot blast stove 10 includes a checker chamber 4 and a combustion chamber 3 which includes a burner system and placed above the checker chamber 4. The burner system includes: a burner 1 provided with a fuel gas pipe 1c and combustion air pipes 1b, 1d; and a burner duct 2 communicating with a burner exit 1a of the burner 1, the burner duct 2 communicating with the combustion chamber 3 through a burner duct outlet 2b, wherein an aperture enlarged portion 2c where an aperture D1 of the burner duct 2 is enlarged is provided over a section from a middle of the burner duct 2 to the burner duct outlet 2b, so that an eddy current ED of the mixed gas MG flowing toward the combustion chamber 3 through the burner duct 2 is formed in the aperture enlarged portion 2c. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A top-firing hot blast stove, comprising: a checker chamber including a blast pipe for receiving supply of hot blast air; and a combustion chamber including a hot-blast pipe and a burner system for supplying hot blast to a blast furnace, the combustion chamber being positioned above the checker chamber, wherein the checker chamber is heated by combustion of mixed gas including fuel gas and combustion air supplied from the burner system to the combustion chamber, and hot blast which is generated while the hot blast air passing through the checker chamber is supplied to the blast furnace through the hot-blast pipe, wherein the burner system includes (i) a burner provided with a fuel gas pipe, a first combustion air pipe, and a second combustion air pipe, wherein the fuel gas pipe and the second combustion air pipe are concentrically positioned around the first combustion air pipe, and the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe extend up to and form a burner exit of the burner, and a wall of an outermost pipe of the concentrically positioned pipes transitions to the burner exit and a burner duct, and (ii) the burner duct communicating with the burner exit of the burner, the burner duct communicating with the combustion chamber through a burner duct outlet disposed at an opposing end of the burner duct relative to the burner exit, wherein the burner duct defines an inner diameter D1 up to a middle of the burner duct and includes an aperture enlarged portion, the inner diameter D1 of the burner duct being enlarged at the aperture enlarged portion to define inner diameter D2 provided over a section from the middle of the burner duct to the burner duct outlet, and wherein the burner duct includes an aperture narrowed portion mounted to and extending from an inner surface of the burner duct immediately adjacent to the burner exit formed by the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe, the aperture narrowed portion defining an inner diameter D3 dimensioned smaller than the inner diameter D1 of the burner duct. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein a length of the aperture enlarged portion to the burner duct outlet is in a range of 0.3D1 to 1.4D1 where D1 represents the inner diameter of the burner duct up to the middle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein an eddy current sucks in high temperature atmosphere from the combustion chamber and forms a flame-holding, portion to stabilize an ignition point. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein the second combustion air pipe is concentrically positioned around the fuel gas pipe. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe are inclined up to the burner exit, thereby defining a narrowed portion where the inner diameter of the burner duct is reduced. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 5, wherein the mixed gas including the fuel gas and the combustion air is formed in the narrowed portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 5, wherein the inclined fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe define a reduction in respective diameters of the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe in the direction of the burner exit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 5, wherein the inclined fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe promote mixing between the fuel gas and the combustion air. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, comprising a swirling blade in at least one of the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe to generate a spiral flow of at least one of the fuel gas and the combustion air. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein the burner system comprises a second burner and a second burner duct, the second burner duct communicating with the combustion chamber through a second burner duct outlet. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 10, wherein the burner duct and the second burner duct are connected to the combustion chamber at an eccentric position. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 11, wherein the eccentric position is defined by an inflow direction of combustion gas from the burner duet and the second burner duct into the combustion chamber which does not pass through a center of the combustion chamber. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 12, wherein combustion gas from the burner duct flowing into the combustion chamber interferes with combustion gas flowing into the combustion chamber from the second burner duct. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 13, wherein interference between the combustion gas flowing into the combustion chamber from the burner duct and the combustion gas flowing into the combustion chamber from the second burner duct forms a swirling flow of combustion gas in the combustion chamber. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The top-firing, hot blast stove according to claim 14, wherein the swirling flow of combustion gas in the combustion chamber supplies the combustion gas to the checker chamber in a uniform manner. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein a transition connects the inner diameter D1 of the burner duct and the inner diameter D2 of the aperture enlarged portion, and wherein the transition of the burner duct located between the inner diameter D1 and the aperture enlarged portion comprises a beveled burner duct portion. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 16, wherein the beveled burner duct portion facilitates generation of an eddy current of the mixed gas. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 1, wherein the aperture narrowed portion promotes mixing between the fuel gas and the combustion air flowing from the fuel gas pipe, the first combustion air pipe and the second combustion air pipe. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The top-firing hot blast stove according to claim 18, wherein the aperture narrowed portion includes beveled edges leading to the inner diameter D3 dimensioned smaller than the inner diameter D1 of the burner duct.