CN207243808U - The pusher side furnace door sealing device sealed using raw coke oven gas - Google Patents
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It the utility model is related to the pusher side furnace door sealing device using raw coke oven gas sealing, including smoke guiding cover and pusher side oven door sealing frame；Smoke guiding cover is made of diversion elbow and water conservancy diversion cover body, the top of diversion elbow is movably connected with coke furnace carbonization chamber furnace roof raw coke oven gas delivery line, the bottom of diversion elbow is connected with the top of water conservancy diversion cover body, the bottom connection pusher side oven door sealing frame of water conservancy diversion cover body, pusher side oven door sealing frame are movably docked with the sealing of coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay；Smoke guiding cover, pusher side oven door sealing frame form enclosure space with corresponding coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay and fire door top headwall；When coalingging, elastic packing baffle and sealing gland passage are equipped with pusher side oven door sealing frame, sealing deflector and airflow-distribution board are equipped with smoke guiding cover.The utility model is used to pusher side flue gas in carbonization chamber carrying out air seal to pusher side fire door from after the export of furnace roof smoke guiding hole, can effectively prevent the loss of coal-charging smoke, realizes effective control to flue dust during tamping coke oven coal-charging.
Description
Technical field
Coke oven smoke treatment technical field is the utility model is related to, more particularly to it is close using the pusher side fire door of raw coke oven gas sealing
Seal apparatus.
Background technology
Tamping coke furnace coking is one kind of mechanization chamber type coking process, compared with filling coke oven with top, can increase weakly caking coal
Proportioning, efficiently utilize coking coal resource, is the selection process technology for being adapted to China's coking coal resource situation, at present tamping coking work
Skill has been obtained for extensive use in China.
However, fill coke oven relative to top, the flue dust that tamping coke furnace produces during coalingging has that exhaust gas volumn is big, water content
The features such as high and viscosity is big, more due to coalingging using side coal technique, carbonization chamber and atmosphere contacting surface are big during coalingging
And cause smoke catching difficulty big so that flue dust escapes seriously during tamping coke oven coal-charging, is caused to atmospheric environment seriously
Pollution.
The trapping and processing of the flue dust produced for tamping coke oven coal-charging process, numerous environmental workers and relevant technical people
Member has put into substantial amounts of energy, also applies a variety of Processing tecchnics and technology, and wet dust removal is net after burning such as furnace top smoke catching
Combine dry-type floor dust removing station purification technique after chemical industry skill, furnace top smoke catching burning, using furnace roof U-tube smoke guide device by cigarette
Conductance enters coal gas collection system and combines burner smoke trapping earth station treatment process etc..These coal-charging smoke Processing tecchnics are to making firm by ramming
Coke oven coal-charging smoke plays certain control and catharsis, but for being escaped during coalingging at the fire door that pusher side opens wide
Flue dust, fail to carry out highly effective control and collection, it is still serious to cause to escape during tamping coke oven coal-charging flue dust,
Pollution to environment is still continuing, and huge environmental protection pressure is brought to manufacturing enterprise, limits make firm by ramming to a certain extent
The application and popularization of coking technology.
The flue dust escaped during for tamping coke oven coal-charging at the fire door that pusher side opens wide, is typically employed at pusher side fire door and sets
The sealing at sealing firedoor frame reinforcement fire door is put, while sets smoke catching cover to collect from fire door above sealing frame and escapes flue dust
Mode be controlled.But in actual production, usually due to various reasons so that the coal-charging smoke amount escaped from fire door is very big,
It is limited to seal firedoor frame sealing function, the smoke catching cover of top also can only collection portion exceptionally escape flue dust, most flue dust is still
So cannot effectively it control.
The content of the invention
The utility model provides the pusher side furnace door sealing device sealed using raw coke oven gas, for by pusher side cigarette in carbonization chamber
Gas carries out air seal from after the export of furnace roof smoke guiding hole to pusher side fire door, can effectively prevent the loss of coal-charging smoke, realize butt ramming
Gu effective control of flue dust during coke oven coal-charging.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model is realized using following technical scheme：
The pusher side furnace door sealing device sealed using raw coke oven gas, including smoke guiding cover and pusher side oven door sealing frame；It is described to lead cigarette
Cover is made of diversion elbow and water conservancy diversion cover body, the top of diversion elbow movably with coke furnace carbonization chamber furnace roof raw coke oven gas delivery line
Connection, the bottom of diversion elbow are connected with the top of water conservancy diversion cover body, the bottom connection pusher side oven door sealing frame of water conservancy diversion cover body, pusher side
Oven door sealing frame is movably docked with the sealing of coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay；Smoke guiding cover, the combination connection of pusher side oven door sealing frame
After can form enclosure space with corresponding coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay and fire door top headwall；Bullet is set in pusher side oven door sealing frame
Property sealing baffle with load when briquette both sides keep it is in sealing contact, set in smoke guiding cover sealing deflector with loading when briquette
Top keeps in sealing contact；Sealing gland passage is additionally provided with pusher side oven door sealing frame, airflow-distribution board is additionally provided with smoke guiding cover.
The water conservancy diversion cover body is made of preceding gas baffle, rear gas baffle, side panel, and the top of water conservancy diversion cover body and water conservancy diversion are curved
The bottom docking of pipe, the bottom of water conservancy diversion cover body are docked with pusher side oven door sealing frame, and water conservancy diversion cover body and diversion elbow, pusher side fire door are close
Envelope frame is collectively forming coke furnace carbonization chamber fire door sealing structure.
The sealing deflector is arranged on smoke guiding cover bottom, its width is identical with clear span in carbonization chamber；Seal the one of deflector
End is hinged on the rear gas baffle of water conservancy diversion cover body, and the other end is free end, and when briquette loads, sealing deflector can be around hinged
Top rotates in the overall guide stream cover body of point.
The sealing deflector is heat-resisting steel sheet and plate.
The airflow-distribution board is horizontally set in the kuppe body above sealing deflector along briquette approach axis, side
It is fixedly connected with the rear gas baffle of water conservancy diversion cover body；Airflow-distribution board is made of 2 blocks of plates, and the upper end of 2 blocks of plates is connected, lower end difference
2 side panels to water conservancy diversion cover body are close, and gas passage is formed between airflow-distribution board and side panel.
The pusher side oven door sealing frame is by support frame, seal, bottom plate, side plate, backboard and elastic packing baffle group
Into；Bottom plate is fixed on the bottom of support frame, and side plate is fixed on the both sides of support frame, and backboard is fixed on the outer of support frame
Side；The inner side of support frame is unenclosed construction, its both sides passes through seal and the sealing pair of coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay respectively
Connect；Elastic packing baffle is arranged in the middle part of backboard, it is to opening structure, and the side of opening structure is hinged with backboard respectively.
The elastic packing baffle is platy structure made of heat-resistant elastic material, or to be configured with the resistance to of spring mechanism
Hot steel plate.
The sealing gland passage is located at the both sides of pusher side oven door sealing frame, is made of support frame, side plate and ventilation side plate
And along the gas channel of the elongated setting of pusher side oven door sealing frame vertical direction, it is logical wherein ventilation side plate is arranged in parallel with side plate
Bar shaped louver or venthole are evenly equipped with the plate of gas side.
Compared with prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are：
1) by the smoke guiding cover with sealing deflector and the pusher side oven door sealing frame with elastic packing baffle, realize
Enclosure space is formed during coke oven coal-charging between sealing device and coke oven fire door, the flue gas for preventing to produce during coalingging escapes, real
Now to effective control of tampering type coke oven coal-charging smoke；
2) by the guide functions of airflow-distribution board and sealing gland passage, the flue gas in sealing device is directed in carbonization chamber
Portion, realizes the air seal effect to carbonization chamber fire door, promotes effective recycling of Coal charging flue gas, gas saving resource；At the same time
The entrance of outside air is prevented, the safety in production for coke oven gas gathering system and follow-up gas purification processing system has provided
Effect ensures.
Brief description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is the front view of the pusher side furnace door sealing device described in the utility model using raw coke oven gas sealing.
Fig. 2 is the A direction views in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is the B-B views one in Fig. 1 (during coalingging).
Fig. 4 is the B-B views two in Fig. 1 (after coalingging).
In figure：1. 4. side panel 5. of gas baffle seals 6. gas of deflector after gas baffle 3. before diversion elbow 2.
11. backboard of flow point fabric swatch 7. support frame, 8. seal, 9. bottom plate, 10. side plate, 12. elastic packing baffle 13. is ventilated
16. furnace roof of side plate 14. coke furnace carbonization chamber, 15. briquette, 17. furnace stay
Embodiment
Specific embodiment of the present utility model is described further below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings：
As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the pusher side furnace door sealing device described in the utility model sealed using raw coke oven gas, including lead cigarette
Cover and pusher side oven door sealing frame；The smoke guiding cover is made of diversion elbow 1 and water conservancy diversion cover body, and the top of diversion elbow 1 moves
Ground is connected with 16 raw coke oven gas delivery line of coke furnace carbonization chamber furnace roof, and the bottom of diversion elbow 1 is connected with the top of water conservancy diversion cover body, water conservancy diversion
The bottom connection pusher side oven door sealing frame of cover body, pusher side oven door sealing frame are movably sealed with 14 both sides furnace stay of coke furnace carbonization chamber
Docking；Can be with corresponding coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay 17 and fire door top after smoke guiding cover, the combination connection of pusher side oven door sealing frame
Headwall forms enclosure space；15 both sides of briquette when elastic packing baffle 12 is set in pusher side oven door sealing frame with loading keep close
Sealing-in is touched, and the top of briquette 15 when sealing deflector 5 is set in smoke guiding cover with loading keeps in sealing contact；In pusher side oven door sealing frame
Sealing gland passage is additionally provided with, airflow-distribution board 6 is additionally provided with smoke guiding cover.
The water conservancy diversion cover body is made of preceding gas baffle 2, rear gas baffle 3, side panel 4, and the top of water conservancy diversion cover body is with leading
The bottom docking of bend pipe 1 is flowed, the bottom outside of water conservancy diversion cover body docks with pusher side oven door sealing frame, water conservancy diversion cover body and diversion elbow 1,
Pusher side oven door sealing frame is collectively forming coke furnace carbonization chamber fire door sealing structure.
The sealing deflector 5 is arranged on smoke guiding cover bottom, its width is identical with clear span in carbonization chamber；Seal deflector 5
One end is hinged on the rear gas baffle 3 of water conservancy diversion cover body, and the other end is free end, and when briquette 15 loads, sealing deflector 5 can
Rotated around the overall top into water conservancy diversion cover body of hinge joint.
The sealing deflector 5 is heat-resisting steel sheet and plate.
The airflow-distribution board 6 is horizontally set on along 15 approach axis of briquette in the kuppe body of 5 top of sealing deflector,
Side is fixedly connected with the rear gas baffle 3 of water conservancy diversion cover body；Airflow-distribution board 6 is made of 2 blocks of plates, and the upper end of 2 blocks of plates is connected, under
End is close to 2 side panels 4 of water conservancy diversion cover body respectively, and gas passage is formed between airflow-distribution board 6 and side panel 4.
The pusher side oven door sealing frame is led by support frame 7, seal 8, bottom plate 9, side plate 10, backboard 11 and elastic packing
Fluid 12 forms；Bottom plate 9 is fixed on 7 bottom of support frame, and side plate 10 is fixed on the both sides of support frame 7, and backboard 11 is fixed on
The outside of support frame 7；The inner side of support frame 7 is unenclosed construction, its both sides passes through seal 8 and coke furnace carbonization chamber respectively
The sealing docking of both sides furnace stay 17；Elastic packing baffle 12 is arranged on the middle part of backboard 11, it is to opening structure, to the side of opening structure
It is hinged with backboard 11 respectively.
The elastic packing baffle 12 is platy structure made of heat-resistant elastic material, or to be configured with spring mechanism
Heat-resisting steel sheet and plate.
The sealing gland passage is located at the both sides of pusher side oven door sealing frame, by support frame 7, side plate 10 and 13 groups of side plate of ventilation
Into, and along the elongated setting of pusher side oven door sealing frame vertical direction, wherein ventilation side plate 13 is arranged in parallel with side plate 10, side plate of ventilating
Bar shaped louver or venthole are evenly equipped with 13.
Existing tamping coke oven coal-charging dust control system does not realize effective control for the flue dust that slave wing furnace mouth escapes
System, flue dust seriously escapes when causing to coaling, and influences coke oven production environment.Wherein, sealing of the pusher side furnace door sealing device to flue gas
One of limited the reason for being important is acted on, for this reason, the utility model is realized by improving tamping coke oven machine side furnace door sealing device
Effective control to flue dust during tamping coke oven coal-charging.
Pusher side furnace door sealing device described in the utility model using raw coke oven gas sealing is by the driving that is arranged on charging car
Mechanism driving is realized docks with the sealing of coke furnace carbonization chamber fire door, and releases the behaviour with coke furnace carbonization chamber fire door sealing mated condition
Make.Smoke guiding cover receives raw coke oven gas derived from furnace roof raw coke oven gas guiding system, by smoke guiding cover, carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay 17, fire door
In the enclosure space that top headwall and pusher side oven door sealing frame are collectively forming, the raw coke oven gas air curtain pair that is formed by sealing gland passage
Coke furnace carbonization chamber fire door carries out sealing gland isolation, and makes raw coke oven gas in the case where sealing the guiding of deflector 5, elastic packing baffle 12,
Entered with certain speed in coke furnace carbonization chamber 14, play and the outer of Coal charging flue gas in coke furnace carbonization chamber 14 is prevented during coalingging
The sealing function that ease and extraneous air enter.
The sealing deflector 5 is the heat-resisting steel sheet and plate of one piece of rectangle, its width is identical with clear span in coke furnace carbonization chamber 14；
When briquette 15 enters coke furnace carbonization chamber 14, its free end rotates under the drive of briquette 15 to the inner side of coke furnace carbonization chamber 14, sealing
The both sides of deflector 5 touch with 14 inner wall of coke furnace carbonization chamber but can be freely movable, while seal deflector 5 and begin with the top of briquette 15
Keep being in close contact eventually, kept off on 15 top of briquette and 14 inner wall of coke furnace carbonization chamber, preceding gas baffle 2, side panel 4 and rear flue gas
Plate 3 is collectively forming confined space, avoids flue gas in coke furnace carbonization chamber 14 from escaping.
The airflow-distribution board 6 is used for the downward water conservancy diversion of partial fume of self-conductance in future cigarette bend pipe 1, flue gas is divided into two,
Then respectively enterd with certain pressure and speed in the sealing gland passage in the pusher side oven door sealing frame of lower section both sides.
The elastic packing baffle 12 is arranged on the opening that the middle part of pusher side oven door sealing frame backboard 11 passes through for briquette 15
Both sides, without briquette 15 by when, it will be for opening complete seal that briquette 15 passes through under itself or the effect of exterior elastic force.Dress
During coal (as shown in Figure 3), briquette 15 is by opening, and elastic packing baffle 12 deforms when being contacted with briquette 15 or position
Move, move with briquette 15 and rotated to pusher side oven door sealing frame inner side；And the flue gas in furnace door sealing device is guided to coke oven charcoal
Change flowing in room 14, while remain in sealing contact between elastic packing baffle 12 and briquette 15, effectively prevent pusher side stove
Flue gas in door sealing frame is escaped by 15 edge of briquette.Coaling latter stage, briquette 15 is put into (such as Fig. 4 after coke furnace carbonization chamber 14
It is shown), elastic packing baffle 12 is disengaged with briquette 15, and returns to initial position under itself or exterior elastic force effect
Put, keep the sealing to opening.
The sealing gland passage is towards setting bar shaped louver or venthole, sealing gland passage on the ventilation side plate 13 of 15 side of briquette
The gas channel formed with the airflow-distribution board 6 in smoke guiding cover is connected, and the flue gas with certain speed and pressure leads to along air-flow
Road enters in sealing gland passage, and under pressure, flue gas from the bar shaped louver on ventilation side plate 13 or is led to higher speed
Stomata sprays, and twice air curtain is formed in 15 both sides of briquette, on the one hand prevents the air of external environment condition from being carbonized by injection into coke oven
Room, 14 return to coke furnace carbonization chamber 14 under the guiding of elastic packing baffle 12 at the same time, avoid flue gas from leaking and pollute environment.
The above, is only the preferable embodiment of the utility model, but the scope of protection of the utility model is not
This is confined to, any one skilled in the art is in the technical scope that the utility model discloses, according to this practicality
New technical solution and its utility model design are subject to equivalent substitution or change, should all cover the protection model in the utility model
Within enclosing.
Claims (4)
1. using the pusher side furnace door sealing device of raw coke oven gas sealing, it is characterised in that including smoke guiding cover and pusher side oven door sealing frame；
The smoke guiding cover is made of diversion elbow and water conservancy diversion cover body, the top of diversion elbow movably with coke furnace carbonization chamber furnace roof famine coal
Gas delivery line connects, and the bottom of diversion elbow is connected with the top of water conservancy diversion cover body, and the bottom connection pusher side fire door of water conservancy diversion cover body is close
Frame is sealed, pusher side oven door sealing frame is movably docked with the sealing of coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay；Smoke guiding cover, pusher side oven door sealing frame
Enclosure space can be formed after combination connection with corresponding coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay and fire door top headwall；Pusher side oven door sealing
Briquette both sides when elastic packing baffle is set in frame with loading keep in sealing contact, and sealing deflector is set in smoke guiding cover with loading
When briquette at the top of keep it is in sealing contact；Sealing gland passage is additionally provided with pusher side oven door sealing frame, air-flow point is additionally provided with smoke guiding cover
Fabric swatch；The sealing gland passage is located at the both sides of pusher side oven door sealing frame, by support frame, side plate and ventilation side plate form and
Along the gas channel of the elongated setting of pusher side oven door sealing frame vertical direction, wherein ventilation side plate is arranged in parallel with side plate, side of ventilating
Bar shaped louver or venthole are evenly equipped with plate；The airflow-distribution board is horizontally set on sealing deflector along briquette approach axis
In the kuppe body of top, side is fixedly connected with the rear gas baffle of water conservancy diversion cover body；Airflow-distribution board is made of 2 blocks of plates, 2 pieces
The upper end of plate is connected, and 2 side panels of the lower end respectively to water conservancy diversion cover body are close, and gas is formed between airflow-distribution board and side panel
Body passage.
2. the pusher side furnace door sealing device according to claim 1 sealed using raw coke oven gas, it is characterised in that the water conservancy diversion
Cover body is made of preceding gas baffle, rear gas baffle, side panel, and the top of water conservancy diversion cover body is docked with the bottom of diversion elbow, is led
The bottom of stream cover body is docked with pusher side oven door sealing frame, and water conservancy diversion cover body is collectively forming Jiao with diversion elbow, pusher side oven door sealing frame
Oven carbonization chamber fire door sealing structure.
3. the pusher side furnace door sealing device according to claim 1 sealed using raw coke oven gas, it is characterised in that the sealing
Deflector is arranged on smoke guiding cover bottom, its width is identical with clear span in carbonization chamber；One end of sealing deflector is hinged on water conservancy diversion cover body
Rear gas baffle on, the other end is free end, and when briquette loads, sealing deflector can be overall to water conservancy diversion cover body around hinge joint
Interior top rotates.
4. the pusher side furnace door sealing device according to claim 1 sealed using raw coke oven gas, it is characterised in that the pusher side
Oven door sealing frame is made of support frame, seal, bottom plate, side plate, backboard and elastic packing baffle；Bottom plate is fixed on support
The bottom of frame, side plate are fixed on the both sides of support frame, and backboard is fixed on the outside of support frame；The inner side of support frame is
Unenclosed construction, its both sides are docked by seal with the sealing of coke furnace carbonization chamber both sides furnace stay respectively；Elastic packing baffle is set
In the middle part of backboard, it is to opening structure, and the side of opening structure is hinged with backboard respectively.
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