CA2627016A1 - Process and apparatus for low-nox combustion - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for low-NOx combustion with at least one burner (5) using fuel and oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam. The low-NOx combustion according to the invention can be used in conventional melting and holding furnaces, in particular in aluminium holding furnaces or rotary drum furnaces and glass-melting furnaces, with the potential for considerable economies to be made.
Description
Process and apparatus for low-NO,t combustion The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for low-NOX combustion using fuel and oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam.
In the known low-NOX combustion, the furnace off-gases, which are sucked in by a blower, sheath the burner flame, thereby reducing the flame temperature and con-sequently the thermal emission of NOx.
However, this conventional combustion has the significant drawback that the fur-nace off-gases which are recirculated in the furnace installation are not completely mixed with the oxidizing agent, and consequently the -stipulated emission of NOX
in the off-gas can only be realized at additional cost.
High investment costs are inevitable with the known low-NOX combustion, and costs are additionally incurred for maintenance of the installation, in particular the highly loaded blower and the pipelines. Moreover, external energy is required to operate the blower.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a process and an appa-ratus which allow economical and low-pollutant (low-NOX) combustion in conven-tional fumace installations.
This object is achieved by a process having the features of Claim 1 and by an ap-paratus having the features of Claim 13.
Advantageous refinements of the invention are given in the subclaims.
According to the invention, a mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam is burnt with the fuel, which is fed to the burner separately, by means of the burner, which is arranged in a burner block in a refractory lining of a furnace installation.
For this purpose, the oxidizing agent is fed to an injector at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar and advantageously having been heated from 20 to 900 C in a heat ex-changer by means of furnace off-gas. The oxidizing agent may also be fed to the injector directly without being heated.
The oxidizing agent, which expands as it flows out of the nozzle (which is axially displaceable in the injector at the flow end side), generates a gas jet at a velocity of from 20 to 660 m/s, and thereby generates a reduced pressure in the injector, the sucking action of which sucks either furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or superheated steam generated from water through heat exchange with fur-nace off-gas into the jet of oxidizing agent, and this mixture is then fed to the burner, with temperature balancing, in a line connecting the injector to the burner.
A conventional blowing nozzle or some other equivalent technical means can also be used instead of the injector, which is advantageously arranged in a stack pro-vided for discharging the farn.ace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation.
As an alternative to the oxidizing agent, it is possible for fuel gas at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar to be fed to the injector. In this case, the oxidizing agent is added to the burner.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (C02) and/or steam, which is fed to the burner at a temperature of from 20 C
to 1600 C, preferably 900 C, and at a velocity of from 5 to 70 m/s, has an oxygen content of at least 5% by volume.
The burner, which is, for example, arranged set back in the burner block, is advan-tageously a parallel-flow burner with two tubes (inner tube and outer tube) ar-ranged substantially coaxially with respect to one another for feeding fuel and oxi-dizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam to the burner mouth. The fuel or the oxidizing-agent mixture may be passed to the burner mouth through the inner tube or through the outer tube.
The oxidizing agent used is an oxygen-containing medium with an oxygen content of at least 10% by volume.
The fuel used may be any conventional gaseous or liquid fuel, particularly advan-tageously natural gas.
The injector, which is advantageously operated with the oxidizing agent, is equipped with an axially displaceable nozzle for controlling the intake quantity and concentration and temperature of the mixture fed to the burner. This eliminates the need to supply the injector with external energy, which entails additional costs.
The heat exchanger which is used to heat the oxygen, carbon dioxide and the water and is advantageously arranged in the stack that discharges the furnace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation is advantageously a con-ventional recuperator or regenerator.
The burner used is preferably a conventional parallel-flow burner with at least one feed for the oxidizing agent and at least one feed for the fuel, preferably compris-ing two cylindrical, concentrically arranged tubes.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam to flow out of the burner mouth of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block.
In the known low-NOX combustion, the furnace off-gases, which are sucked in by a blower, sheath the burner flame, thereby reducing the flame temperature and con-sequently the thermal emission of NOx.
However, this conventional combustion has the significant drawback that the fur-nace off-gases which are recirculated in the furnace installation are not completely mixed with the oxidizing agent, and consequently the -stipulated emission of NOX
in the off-gas can only be realized at additional cost.
High investment costs are inevitable with the known low-NOX combustion, and costs are additionally incurred for maintenance of the installation, in particular the highly loaded blower and the pipelines. Moreover, external energy is required to operate the blower.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a process and an appa-ratus which allow economical and low-pollutant (low-NOX) combustion in conven-tional fumace installations.
This object is achieved by a process having the features of Claim 1 and by an ap-paratus having the features of Claim 13.
Advantageous refinements of the invention are given in the subclaims.
According to the invention, a mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam is burnt with the fuel, which is fed to the burner separately, by means of the burner, which is arranged in a burner block in a refractory lining of a furnace installation.
For this purpose, the oxidizing agent is fed to an injector at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar and advantageously having been heated from 20 to 900 C in a heat ex-changer by means of furnace off-gas. The oxidizing agent may also be fed to the injector directly without being heated.
The oxidizing agent, which expands as it flows out of the nozzle (which is axially displaceable in the injector at the flow end side), generates a gas jet at a velocity of from 20 to 660 m/s, and thereby generates a reduced pressure in the injector, the sucking action of which sucks either furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or superheated steam generated from water through heat exchange with fur-nace off-gas into the jet of oxidizing agent, and this mixture is then fed to the burner, with temperature balancing, in a line connecting the injector to the burner.
A conventional blowing nozzle or some other equivalent technical means can also be used instead of the injector, which is advantageously arranged in a stack pro-vided for discharging the farn.ace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation.
As an alternative to the oxidizing agent, it is possible for fuel gas at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar to be fed to the injector. In this case, the oxidizing agent is added to the burner.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (C02) and/or steam, which is fed to the burner at a temperature of from 20 C
to 1600 C, preferably 900 C, and at a velocity of from 5 to 70 m/s, has an oxygen content of at least 5% by volume.
The burner, which is, for example, arranged set back in the burner block, is advan-tageously a parallel-flow burner with two tubes (inner tube and outer tube) ar-ranged substantially coaxially with respect to one another for feeding fuel and oxi-dizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam to the burner mouth. The fuel or the oxidizing-agent mixture may be passed to the burner mouth through the inner tube or through the outer tube.
The oxidizing agent used is an oxygen-containing medium with an oxygen content of at least 10% by volume.
The fuel used may be any conventional gaseous or liquid fuel, particularly advan-tageously natural gas.
The injector, which is advantageously operated with the oxidizing agent, is equipped with an axially displaceable nozzle for controlling the intake quantity and concentration and temperature of the mixture fed to the burner. This eliminates the need to supply the injector with external energy, which entails additional costs.
The heat exchanger which is used to heat the oxygen, carbon dioxide and the water and is advantageously arranged in the stack that discharges the furnace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation is advantageously a con-ventional recuperator or regenerator.
The burner used is preferably a conventional parallel-flow burner with at least one feed for the oxidizing agent and at least one feed for the fuel, preferably compris-ing two cylindrical, concentrically arranged tubes.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam to flow out of the burner mouth of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block.
The outlet velocity of the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam is between 20 and 80 m/s at the burner mouth.
The burner may also be arranged on the off-gas side of the furnace installation, preferably in the stack which discharges the furnace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation, or at any other location which is suitable for its intended use in the furnace wall surrounding the combustion chamber of the fur-nace installation.
It is also possible for the injector and the heat exchanger to be arranged in the burner. An injector/heat exchanger arrangement of this type is advantageous if the fiirnace off-gas is extracted through an annular gap around the burner mouth, as for example in the case of rotary drum furnaces, in particular when the burner is in-stalled on the off-gas side of the furnace. In this case, the mixture of ox~dizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam is recuperatively heated by the furnace off-gases.
The lines which carry the oxidizing agent, the fiirnace off-gas, the carbon dioxide and the steam consist of heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS
alloys and are provided with an insulation which ensures the required thermal protection from the inside and/or the outside and preferably ceramic fibres.
The burner block which includes the burner preferably has a cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver for flame monitoring.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam which is fed to the burner in accordance with the invention reduces the reaction rate of the combustion, since the reactions of the oxygen with the fuel are impeded by the CO2 and/or H20 molecules.
The mixing of the oxidizing agent with fiunace gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam results in the formation of a voluminous combustion flame with a high con-centration of carbon dioxide and steam. The greater volume of the flame compared to that achieved with known combustion, and the higher concentration of carbon dioxide and/or steam in the burner flame significantly increase the gas radiation of carbon dioxide and/or steam, which takes place in the spectral region in radiation bands, with the result that the material to be treated can be heated by a flame tem-perature which lowers the levels of NOX in the off-gas. The radiation bands which are relevant to carbon dioxide are in the range from 2.4 to 3 m, 4 to 4.8 m, 12.5 to 16.4 m, and those which are relevant to steam are in the range from 1.7 to gm, 2.2 to 3 m and 12 to 3 0 m.
As a result of the high-viscosity mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam being fed to the burner at a temperature of from 20 C to 1600 C, preferably 900 C, this mixture is mixed in such a manner with the fuel at the burner mouth that the combustion takes place at a flame tem-perature of from 800 C to 2700 C, which significantly reduces the thermal NOX
off-gas potential of the furnace installation.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide 2o and/or steam which is fed to the burner, as well as the burner which is used in ac-cordance with the invention, causes the fuel to be at least partially self-carburized in the fael tube of the burner and, owing to the design of the burner, in the fael-rich core of the burner flame. The self-carburization or decomposition takes place in oxygen-free zones and at temperatures of greater than 1000 C in the case of hy-drocarbons, so as to form soot. The heating of the soot particles in the burner flame leads to continuous radiation in the range from 0.2 to 20 micrometers and therefore to cooling of the flame, so that the NO,, off-gas levels from the furnace installation are additionally lowered.
A fiirther advantage is the improved heating of lower layers, e.g. in a glass melt bath, since liquid glass is semi-transparent to wavelengths in the range from 0.3 to 4 micrometers.
The burner may also be arranged on the off-gas side of the furnace installation, preferably in the stack which discharges the furnace off-gases from the combustion chamber of the furnace installation, or at any other location which is suitable for its intended use in the furnace wall surrounding the combustion chamber of the fur-nace installation.
It is also possible for the injector and the heat exchanger to be arranged in the burner. An injector/heat exchanger arrangement of this type is advantageous if the fiirnace off-gas is extracted through an annular gap around the burner mouth, as for example in the case of rotary drum furnaces, in particular when the burner is in-stalled on the off-gas side of the furnace. In this case, the mixture of ox~dizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam is recuperatively heated by the furnace off-gases.
The lines which carry the oxidizing agent, the fiirnace off-gas, the carbon dioxide and the steam consist of heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS
alloys and are provided with an insulation which ensures the required thermal protection from the inside and/or the outside and preferably ceramic fibres.
The burner block which includes the burner preferably has a cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver for flame monitoring.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam which is fed to the burner in accordance with the invention reduces the reaction rate of the combustion, since the reactions of the oxygen with the fuel are impeded by the CO2 and/or H20 molecules.
The mixing of the oxidizing agent with fiunace gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam results in the formation of a voluminous combustion flame with a high con-centration of carbon dioxide and steam. The greater volume of the flame compared to that achieved with known combustion, and the higher concentration of carbon dioxide and/or steam in the burner flame significantly increase the gas radiation of carbon dioxide and/or steam, which takes place in the spectral region in radiation bands, with the result that the material to be treated can be heated by a flame tem-perature which lowers the levels of NOX in the off-gas. The radiation bands which are relevant to carbon dioxide are in the range from 2.4 to 3 m, 4 to 4.8 m, 12.5 to 16.4 m, and those which are relevant to steam are in the range from 1.7 to gm, 2.2 to 3 m and 12 to 3 0 m.
As a result of the high-viscosity mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam being fed to the burner at a temperature of from 20 C to 1600 C, preferably 900 C, this mixture is mixed in such a manner with the fuel at the burner mouth that the combustion takes place at a flame tem-perature of from 800 C to 2700 C, which significantly reduces the thermal NOX
off-gas potential of the furnace installation.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide 2o and/or steam which is fed to the burner, as well as the burner which is used in ac-cordance with the invention, causes the fuel to be at least partially self-carburized in the fael tube of the burner and, owing to the design of the burner, in the fael-rich core of the burner flame. The self-carburization or decomposition takes place in oxygen-free zones and at temperatures of greater than 1000 C in the case of hy-drocarbons, so as to form soot. The heating of the soot particles in the burner flame leads to continuous radiation in the range from 0.2 to 20 micrometers and therefore to cooling of the flame, so that the NO,, off-gas levels from the furnace installation are additionally lowered.
A fiirther advantage is the improved heating of lower layers, e.g. in a glass melt bath, since liquid glass is semi-transparent to wavelengths in the range from 0.3 to 4 micrometers.
The NOX off-gas levels are additionally reduced by the use of preferably low-oxidizing agent mixtures and fuels.
The circulating furnace gases cause nitrogen oxides which are present in the com-bustion chamber of the furnace installation to be fed to the burner flame, and these nitrogen oxides are then reduced to form nitrogen (N2) in the fuel-rich zones of the burner flame.
The very long, soft and visible flames generated in the combustion chamber of the furnace installation allow particularly advantageous low-NOX combustion in alu-minium holding furnaces and rotary drum furnaces.
Moreover, the combustion according to the invention is stable and low-noise.
The noise level is 50-80 Decibels.
With the low-NOX combustion according to the invention - unlike with the known flame-free combustion - the flame radiation in the visible region advantageously increases the heat transfer to the material to be treated.
The high concentration and volume of C02/H20 vapour in the burner flame addi-tionally increases the gas radiation of CO2 and/or H20 vapour, which takes place in the spectral region in radiation bands, in such a manner as to ensure improved heat transfer to the material to be treated, e.g. when melting glass.
Furthermore, the turbulence and swirling during combustion, which have a disrup-tive influence when dust-containing products are introduced, are reduced.
The injector insert significantly reduces the wear and maintenance costs for the furnace installation incurred, for example, with a blower consisting of expensive heat-resistant materials which has hitherto been used. Moreover, the supply of ex-ternal energy which has hitherto been required to operate the blower is no longer necessary.
The circulating furnace gases cause nitrogen oxides which are present in the com-bustion chamber of the furnace installation to be fed to the burner flame, and these nitrogen oxides are then reduced to form nitrogen (N2) in the fuel-rich zones of the burner flame.
The very long, soft and visible flames generated in the combustion chamber of the furnace installation allow particularly advantageous low-NOX combustion in alu-minium holding furnaces and rotary drum furnaces.
Moreover, the combustion according to the invention is stable and low-noise.
The noise level is 50-80 Decibels.
With the low-NOX combustion according to the invention - unlike with the known flame-free combustion - the flame radiation in the visible region advantageously increases the heat transfer to the material to be treated.
The high concentration and volume of C02/H20 vapour in the burner flame addi-tionally increases the gas radiation of CO2 and/or H20 vapour, which takes place in the spectral region in radiation bands, in such a manner as to ensure improved heat transfer to the material to be treated, e.g. when melting glass.
Furthermore, the turbulence and swirling during combustion, which have a disrup-tive influence when dust-containing products are introduced, are reduced.
The injector insert significantly reduces the wear and maintenance costs for the furnace installation incurred, for example, with a blower consisting of expensive heat-resistant materials which has hitherto been used. Moreover, the supply of ex-ternal energy which has hitherto been required to operate the blower is no longer necessary.
Furthermore, the thermal loading and therefore wear to the pipe tubes is reduced, since the mixing of the oxidizing agent with furnace off-gases and/or carbon diox-ide and/or steam lowers the temperature of the media that are to be transported.
In addition, primary energy can be saved through preheating of the oxygen used as oxidizing agent and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam by furnace off-gases in the heat exchanger, and as a restilt the operating costs of the furnace installation can be reduced fiu-ther.
The low-NOX combustion according to the invention, with a uniform temperature distribution at a low temperature level (burner flame) in the combustion chamber and therefore with a significantly reduced NO,t off-gas potential can be used in any conventional furnace installation, particularly advantageously in aluminium hold-ing furnaces or glass-melting furnaces.
The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of an exemplary em-bodiment illustrated in the drawing, in which:
Fig. 1 diagrammatically depicts a furnace installation with combustion apparatus;
Fig. 2 diagrammatically depicts a further furnace installation with combustion apparatus;
Fig. 3 diagrammatically depicts a third furnace installation with combustion appa-ratus.
The furnace installation illustrated in Fig. 1 comprises a refractory lining 1 which surrounds a combustion chamber and has an off-gas opening 19 and a stack 2, which discharges the farnace off-gases, and pipeline 3 as well as a burner block 4 with a burner 5, the burner 5 being connected by a pipeline 7 to an injector 6 and to a heat exchanger 8 arranged in the stack 2.
The furnace off-gases which flow out of the combustion chamber through the off-gas opening 19 are cooled as they flow around the heat exchanger 8 and then flow out of the furnace installation through the stack 2.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, flows into the heat exchanger through an inlet 9.
The oxygen flowing through the heat exchanger 8, which is designed as a recu-perator or regenerator, is heated by the furnace off-gases flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and flows through an outlet 10 of the heat exchanger 8 into the injec-tor 6 through an inlet 11 at a temperature of from 20 to 900 C.
The oxygen which flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector 6 at a velocity of from 20 to 660 m/s expands, thereby generating an oxygen jet flowing at a ve-locity of from 20 to 660 m/s.
The high flow velocity of the oxygen jet generates a reduced pressure at position 13 in the injector 6, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the furnace off-gases out of the combustion chamber through the pipeline 3 into the oxygen jet, and in the pipeline 7, which is designed as a mixing section of length x, they are mixed with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, after which the mixture of oxygen and furnace off-gases is fed, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through a connection 14 to the burner 5, which via a further connection 15 is sup-plied with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the furnace off-gases consist of a heat-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are provided on the inner side with a thermal pro-tection and/or on the outer side with a thermal insulation, e.g. comprising ceramic fibres or ceramic blocks.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, with the natural gas used as gaseous fuel flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as the inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and furn.ace off-gas flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, generating a long, soft and visible burner flame 17 in the combustion chamber of the furnace installation for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and fur-nace off-gases.
The burner structure according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases to flow out bf the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and fiirnace off-gases to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner flame which bums the material that is to be treated in the combustion chamber has a flame temperature of from 800 C to 2700 C.
The burner block 4 which accommodates the burner 5 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is advantageously equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
The furnace installation which is diagrammatically depicted in Fig. 2 is advanta-geously used if the furnace off-gases are ladened with dust or other substances which are aggressive or promote oxidation. This furnace installation comprises the refractory lining 1, which surrounds a combustion chamber of a fiunace installa-tion and has an off-gas opening 19, and a stack 2, which discharges the furnace off-gas and accommodates the heat exchanger 8, as well as the burner block 4, which contains the burner 5 and is connected by a pipeline 7 to the injector 6 and the heat exchanger 8.
The fiirnace off-gases which flow out of the combustion chamber through the off-gas opening 19 are cooled as they flow around the heat exchanger 8, which is sup-plied with water, and then flow out of the fixrnace installation via the stack 2.
As it flows through the heat exchanger 8, the water which is fed to the heat ex-changer 8 through the inlet 9 is evaporated through heat exchange with the furnace off-gas flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and then flows into the injector 6 at position 13 as superheated steam at a temperature of from 20 to 900 C.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, flows into the injector 6 through the inlet 11. The oxygen jet expanding as it flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector 6 increases its flow velocity to 20 to 340 m/s, with the result that a reduced pressure is generated at position 13 in the injector 6, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the superheated steam into the oxygen jet flowing through the injector 6 at position 13 and mixes it with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, in the pipeline 7, which is designed as mixing section of length x, and the oxygen/steam mixture flows, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through connection 14 into the burner 5, which is supplied through connection 15 with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the steam consist of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are designed from the inside with a thermal protection or from the outside with a thermal insulation, e.g.
comprising a ceramic fibre or ceramic block.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, natural gas which is used as gaseous fuel flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as an inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and steam flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates the fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, thereby generating the long, soft and visible burner flame 17 with a flame tempera-ture of from 800 C to 2700 C in the combustion chamber of the furnace installa-tion for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam to flow out of the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and steam flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner block 4 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
The furnace installation which is diagrammatically depicted in Fig. 3 is used if the furnace off-gases are ladened with dust or other aggressive or oxidation-promoting substances. This furnace installation comprises the refractory.lining 1, which sur-rounds a combustion chatnber and has an off-gas opening 19, and the stack 2, which is designed to discharge the furnace off-gas and contains the heat exchanger 8, as well as the burner block 4 with burner 5, burner 5 being connected to the in-jector 6 and to the heat exchanger 8 by a pipeline 7.
In addition, primary energy can be saved through preheating of the oxygen used as oxidizing agent and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam by furnace off-gases in the heat exchanger, and as a restilt the operating costs of the furnace installation can be reduced fiu-ther.
The low-NOX combustion according to the invention, with a uniform temperature distribution at a low temperature level (burner flame) in the combustion chamber and therefore with a significantly reduced NO,t off-gas potential can be used in any conventional furnace installation, particularly advantageously in aluminium hold-ing furnaces or glass-melting furnaces.
The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of an exemplary em-bodiment illustrated in the drawing, in which:
Fig. 1 diagrammatically depicts a furnace installation with combustion apparatus;
Fig. 2 diagrammatically depicts a further furnace installation with combustion apparatus;
Fig. 3 diagrammatically depicts a third furnace installation with combustion appa-ratus.
The furnace installation illustrated in Fig. 1 comprises a refractory lining 1 which surrounds a combustion chamber and has an off-gas opening 19 and a stack 2, which discharges the farnace off-gases, and pipeline 3 as well as a burner block 4 with a burner 5, the burner 5 being connected by a pipeline 7 to an injector 6 and to a heat exchanger 8 arranged in the stack 2.
The furnace off-gases which flow out of the combustion chamber through the off-gas opening 19 are cooled as they flow around the heat exchanger 8 and then flow out of the furnace installation through the stack 2.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, flows into the heat exchanger through an inlet 9.
The oxygen flowing through the heat exchanger 8, which is designed as a recu-perator or regenerator, is heated by the furnace off-gases flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and flows through an outlet 10 of the heat exchanger 8 into the injec-tor 6 through an inlet 11 at a temperature of from 20 to 900 C.
The oxygen which flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector 6 at a velocity of from 20 to 660 m/s expands, thereby generating an oxygen jet flowing at a ve-locity of from 20 to 660 m/s.
The high flow velocity of the oxygen jet generates a reduced pressure at position 13 in the injector 6, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the furnace off-gases out of the combustion chamber through the pipeline 3 into the oxygen jet, and in the pipeline 7, which is designed as a mixing section of length x, they are mixed with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, after which the mixture of oxygen and furnace off-gases is fed, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through a connection 14 to the burner 5, which via a further connection 15 is sup-plied with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the furnace off-gases consist of a heat-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are provided on the inner side with a thermal pro-tection and/or on the outer side with a thermal insulation, e.g. comprising ceramic fibres or ceramic blocks.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, with the natural gas used as gaseous fuel flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as the inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and furn.ace off-gas flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, generating a long, soft and visible burner flame 17 in the combustion chamber of the furnace installation for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and fur-nace off-gases.
The burner structure according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases to flow out bf the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and fiirnace off-gases to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and furnace off-gases flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner flame which bums the material that is to be treated in the combustion chamber has a flame temperature of from 800 C to 2700 C.
The burner block 4 which accommodates the burner 5 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is advantageously equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
The furnace installation which is diagrammatically depicted in Fig. 2 is advanta-geously used if the furnace off-gases are ladened with dust or other substances which are aggressive or promote oxidation. This furnace installation comprises the refractory lining 1, which surrounds a combustion chamber of a fiunace installa-tion and has an off-gas opening 19, and a stack 2, which discharges the furnace off-gas and accommodates the heat exchanger 8, as well as the burner block 4, which contains the burner 5 and is connected by a pipeline 7 to the injector 6 and the heat exchanger 8.
The fiirnace off-gases which flow out of the combustion chamber through the off-gas opening 19 are cooled as they flow around the heat exchanger 8, which is sup-plied with water, and then flow out of the fixrnace installation via the stack 2.
As it flows through the heat exchanger 8, the water which is fed to the heat ex-changer 8 through the inlet 9 is evaporated through heat exchange with the furnace off-gas flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and then flows into the injector 6 at position 13 as superheated steam at a temperature of from 20 to 900 C.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, flows into the injector 6 through the inlet 11. The oxygen jet expanding as it flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector 6 increases its flow velocity to 20 to 340 m/s, with the result that a reduced pressure is generated at position 13 in the injector 6, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the superheated steam into the oxygen jet flowing through the injector 6 at position 13 and mixes it with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, in the pipeline 7, which is designed as mixing section of length x, and the oxygen/steam mixture flows, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through connection 14 into the burner 5, which is supplied through connection 15 with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the steam consist of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are designed from the inside with a thermal protection or from the outside with a thermal insulation, e.g.
comprising a ceramic fibre or ceramic block.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, natural gas which is used as gaseous fuel flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as an inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and steam flowing to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates the fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, thereby generating the long, soft and visible burner flame 17 with a flame tempera-ture of from 800 C to 2700 C in the combustion chamber of the furnace installa-tion for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam to flow out of the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and steam to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and steam flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner block 4 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
The furnace installation which is diagrammatically depicted in Fig. 3 is used if the furnace off-gases are ladened with dust or other aggressive or oxidation-promoting substances. This furnace installation comprises the refractory.lining 1, which sur-rounds a combustion chatnber and has an off-gas opening 19, and the stack 2, which is designed to discharge the furnace off-gas and contains the heat exchanger 8, as well as the burner block 4 with burner 5, burner 5 being connected to the in-jector 6 and to the heat exchanger 8 by a pipeline 7.
The exhaust gases which flow out of the combustion chamber through the off-gas opening 19 are cooled as they flow around the heat exchanger 8, which is supplied with carbon dioxide, and then flow out of the furnace installation through the stack 2.
Liquid or preferably gaseous carbon dioxide which is supplied through the inlet 9 of the heat exchanger 8 is heated to 20 C to 900 C through heat exchange with the furnace off-gas flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and flows through the outlet into the injector 6 at position 13.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, is fed to the injector 6 through the inlet 11. The oxygen flowing through the injector 6 expands as it flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector, so that its flow velocity is increased to from 20 to 340 m/s, with the result that a reduced pressure is generated in the injector 6 at position 13, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the carbon dioxide into the oxygen jet, with the carbon dioxide being mixed with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, in the pipeline 7, which is designed as a mixing section with a length x, and then the mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide flows, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through connection 14 into the burner 5, which is supplied via a further connection 15 with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the carbon dioxide consist of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are provided on the inner side with a thermal protection and/or on the outer side with a thermal insulation, e.g. comprising ceramic fibres.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, with natural gas used as gaseous fuel being fed to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as the inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide being fed to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates the fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, producing a long, soft and visible burner flame 17 with a flame temperature of from 800-2700 C in the combustion chamber of the fu.rnace instal-lation for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide to flow out of the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momen-tum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner block 4 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
Liquid or preferably gaseous carbon dioxide which is supplied through the inlet 9 of the heat exchanger 8 is heated to 20 C to 900 C through heat exchange with the furnace off-gas flowing around the heat exchanger 8 and flows through the outlet into the injector 6 at position 13.
The gaseous oxygen, which is used as oxidizing agent at a temperature of from -to 40 C and a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar, is fed to the injector 6 through the inlet 11. The oxygen flowing through the injector 6 expands as it flows out of the outflow nozzle 12 of the injector, so that its flow velocity is increased to from 20 to 340 m/s, with the result that a reduced pressure is generated in the injector 6 at position 13, the sucking action of which reduced pressure sucks the carbon dioxide into the oxygen jet, with the carbon dioxide being mixed with the oxygen jet, with temperature balancing, in the pipeline 7, which is designed as a mixing section with a length x, and then the mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide flows, at a temperature of from 20 to 1600 C, through connection 14 into the burner 5, which is supplied via a further connection 15 with natural gas as gaseous fuel.
The pipelines carrying the oxygen and the carbon dioxide consist of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy and are provided on the inner side with a thermal protection and/or on the outer side with a thermal insulation, e.g. comprising ceramic fibres.
The burner 5, which is used as a parallel-flow burner, advantageously has an inner tube and an outer tube, with natural gas used as gaseous fuel being fed to the burner mouth 16 through the fuel tube 18, which is arranged as the inner tube, and the mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide being fed to the burner mouth 16 through the outer tube, which accommodates the fuel tube 18 and is designed as an annular gap 21, producing a long, soft and visible burner flame 17 with a flame temperature of from 800-2700 C in the combustion chamber of the fu.rnace instal-lation for heating material that is to be treated.
Partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube 18 of the burner 5 through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide.
The burner design according to the invention allows the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide to flow out of the burner mouth 16 of the burner at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel, with the result that a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW and a ratio of the momen-tum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide to fuel of from 0.8 to 31 are ensured, and as a result a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block 4.
The mixture of oxidizing agent and carbon dioxide flows out of the burner mouth 16 at a velocity of from 20 to 80 m/s.
The burner block 4 has a preferably cylindrical opening.
The burner is equipped with a UV light receiver 20 for flame monitoring.
List of designations 1 Refractory lining 2 Stack (furnace off-gas) 3 Pipeline (fnrnace off-gas) 4 Burner block Burner 6 Injector 7 Pipeline 8 Heat exchanger 9 Inlet (8) Outlet (8) 11 Inlet (6) 12 Outflow nozzle (6) 13 Position (6) 14 Connection (5) Connection (5) 16 Burner mouth 17 Burner flame 18 Fuel tube 19 Off-gas opening UV light receiver 21 Annular gap
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1. Process for low-NO x combustion with at least one burner (5) using fuel and oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gas and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam.
2. Process according to Claim 1, characterized in that the oxidizing agent and/or the furnace off-gases and/or the carbon dioxide and/or the steam are fed to the burner (5) as a mixture.
3. Process according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the mixture of oxi-dizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam which is fed to the burner (5) is preferably produced by means of at least one injector (6).
4. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the injector (6) is preferably operated with the oxidizing agent or fuel.
5. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam with an oxygen content of at least 5% by volume of oxygen is fed to the burner (5).
6. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide and/or steam which is fed to the burner (5) is at a temperature of from 20°C
to 1600°C.
to 1600°C.
7. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the oxidizing agent used is oxygen or an oxygen-containing medium containing at least 10% by volume of oxygen at a pressure of from 0.2 to 40 bar and a temperature of from -20 to 40°C.
8. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the combustion is carried out at a flame temperature of from 800°C to 2700°C.
9. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the velocity at which the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam emerges at the burner mouth (16) is between 20 and 80 m/s.
10. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that:
a) the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam flows out of the burner mouth (16) of the burner (5) at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel b) a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW is established c) a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam to fuel is from 0.8 to 31 d) in that a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block (4).
a) the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam flows out of the burner mouth (16) of the burner (5) at a velocity which is 0.3 to 4 times higher than the fuel b) a total momentum flux, based on the burner power, of from 1.5 to 8 N/MW is established c) a ratio of the momentum flux densities of the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or steam to fuel is from 0.8 to 31 d) in that a power density of from 0.2 to 0.5 KW/mm2 is reached at the outlet of the burner block (4).
11. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that partial self-carburization of the fuel takes place in the fuel tube (18) of the burner (5) through recuperative heat exchange with the mixture of oxidizing agent and/or furnace off-gases and/or carbon dioxide (C02) and/or steam.
12. Process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the oxidizing agent or fuel flows out of the outflow nozzle (12) of the injector (6) at a velocity of from 20 to 660 m/s.
13. Apparatus for carrying out the low-NO x combustion with at least one burner, which is arranged in a burner block of a furnace wall surrounding the com-bustion chamber and is supplied with oxidizing agent and fuel, as described in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the burner (5) is con-nected by means of a line (7) to an injector (6) and a heat exchanger (8).
14. Apparatus according to Claim 13, characterized in that the injector (6) has an axially displaceable outflow nozzle (12).
15. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the heat exchanger (8) is preferably arranged in a stack (2) which discharges the furnace off-gases from the combustion chamber.
16. Apparatus according to Claim 15, characterized in that the heat exchanger (8) is preferably designed as a recuperator or regenerator.
17. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the injector (6) is arranged in the pipeline (7).
18. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the injector (6) and/or the heat exchanger (8) are arranged in the burner (5).
19. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the burner (5) has at least one connection (14) for supplying the oxidizing-agent mixture and at least one connection (15) for supplying the fuel.
20. Apparatus according to Claim 19, characterized in that the fuel feed and/or oxidizing-agent mixture feed (18, 21) of the burner (5) are arranged substan-tially coaxially with respect to one another.
21. Apparatus according to Claim 19 or 20, characterized in that the burner (5) is arranged opposite the off-gas opening (19).
22. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the burner (5) is arranged on the off-gas side of the furnace installation, prefera-bly in the off-gas opening (19) or in the stack (2).
23. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the media-carrying lines consist of a heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant NiCr or ODS alloy.
24. Apparatus according to Claim 20, characterized in that the media-carrying lines have a thermal insulation on the outer side and/or a thermal protection on the inner side, preferably consisting of ceramic fibres or ceramic block.
25. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the burner block (4) which includes the burner (5) preferably has a cylindrical opening.
26. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the burner (5) is equipped with a UV light receiver (20) for flame monitoring.
27. Use of the apparatus and process according to one of the preceding claims in a melting or holding furnace, preferably in an aluminium holding furnace or rotary drum furnace or glass-melting furnace.
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