CN208933403U - A kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system - Google Patents

A kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system Download PDF

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CN208933403U
CN208933403U CN201821773974.3U CN201821773974U CN208933403U CN 208933403 U CN208933403 U CN 208933403U CN 201821773974 U CN201821773974 U CN 201821773974U CN 208933403 U CN208933403 U CN 208933403U
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The utility model discloses a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling systems, HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system includes sequentially connected gasification cooling flue, high-temperature cyclone dust extractor, waste heat boiler, scrubber, dehydration of gas tower and gas fired-boiler, and the gas exit of dehydration of gas tower is also connected with hot-blast stove.Gasification cooling flue is connected with gasification cooling flue drum, and waste heat boiler is connected with waste heat boiler drum, the gas exit of the gas inlet connecting smelting furnace of gasification cooling flue.Gasification cooling flue cools down to coal gas of high temperature, high-temperature cyclone dust extractor is dusted coal gas, waste heat boiler coal gas is further cooled down, scrubber purifies coal gas, enter in dehydration of gas tower later and coal gas is dried, coal gas after drying respectively enters in gas fired-boiler and hot-blast stove, mixes with the natural gas entered in gas fired-boiler and hot-blast stove and carries out burning utilization.

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A kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system
Technical field
The utility model belongs to HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy reclaimer technical field, and in particular to a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system.
Background technique
HIsmelt ironmaking technique of fusion and reduction is one kind using mill coal as main energy sources, directly using originals such as Iron Ore Powders Material, is reduced into ferriferous oxide with carbon under high temperature fused state the smelting process of metallic iron.This method does not have to coke, sinter And pellet, it greatly reduced the discharge of CO2, NOx and dioxin, high with simple process, resource and efficiency of energy utilization, The advantages that environmental pollution is small has very bright application prospect, all the time and the hot spot of iron industry research.
Currently, the universal blast furnace gas calorific value of industry is in 700Kcal or more, such coal gas after purification can directly into Row burning is used for steam-electric power.But a large amount of calorifics value of gas generated in HIsmelt fusion reducing furnace are in 500Kcal or so, no It can directly burn, although the coal gas of these high temperature low heat values is worth with huge recycling, containing a large amount of in coal gas Flue dust.Therefore it is necessary to design a set of effective energy regenerating and utilize system.
1500 DEG C or so can be reached using the coal gas of high temperature that HIsmelt ironmaking technique of fusion and reduction generates, direct emission It is not only wasted into atmosphere but also causes certain damage to atmospheric environment.
The coal gas system of the melting techniques such as blast furnace is all negative pressure state.But HIsmelt smelting reduction technology is from smelting furnace Hot fume in the system between scrubber is barotropic state, this also sealing to energy regenerating and cyclic utilization system Property and stability propose strict requirements.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a kind of recyclings of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy System can recycle the energy of HIsmelt melting producer gas and utilization.
In order to solve the above technical problems, the technical solution of the utility model is:
A kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system, which is characterized in that the HIsmelt smelting furnace coal Gas energy recovery utilizing system includes: that sequentially connected gasification cooling flue, high-temperature cyclone dust extractor, waste heat boiler, coal gas are washed Tower, dehydration of gas tower and gas fired-boiler are washed, the gas exit of the dehydration of gas tower is also connected with hot-blast stove;The Vaporizing cooling Flue is connected with gasification cooling flue drum;The waste heat boiler is connected with waste heat boiler drum;The gasification cooling flue Gas inlet connects the gas exit of the smelting furnace.
Further, the hot-blast stove is connect by pipeline with the smelting furnace.
Further, the fire tube of wear-resistant material is installed, the fire tube is arranged in honeycomb, described in the waste heat boiler Coal gas walks the fire tube.
Further, the lower part of the high-temperature cyclone dust extractor is equipped with unloading valve component, and the unloading valve component includes Two unloading valves arranged up and down.
Further, the gas fired-boiler is connected with steam-electric power unit.
Further, mixing burner one is provided in the burner hearth of the gas fired-boiler, the mixing burner one is used for low-heat It is worth the mixing of coal gas and the mixed combustion of natural gas, is provided with heat storage and flame stabilization device one in the burner hearth of the gas fired-boiler.
Further, mixing burner two is provided in the burner hearth of the hot-blast stove, the mixing burner two is used for low heat value The mixing of coal gas and the mixed combustion of natural gas, the burner hearth of the hot-blast stove are provided with heat storage and flame stabilization device two.
Further, the gas fired-boiler is connected with waste gas spreading chimney.
Further, the gasification cooling flue drum, the waste heat boiler drum pass through pipeline and the gas fired-boiler Connection.
By adopting the above-described technical solution, the beneficial effects of the utility model are:
HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system includes sequentially connected gasification cooling flue, high-temp. vortex Deduster, waste heat boiler, scrubber, dehydration of gas tower and gas fired-boiler, the gas exit of dehydration of gas tower are also connected with Hot-blast stove.Gasification cooling flue is connected with gasification cooling flue drum, and waste heat boiler is connected with waste heat boiler drum, Vaporizing cooling The gas exit of the gas inlet connecting smelting furnace of flue.Gasification cooling flue cools down to coal gas of high temperature, and high-temp. vortex removes Dirt device is dusted coal gas, and waste heat boiler coal gas is further cooled down, and scrubber purifies coal gas, it is laggard Enter and coal gas is dried in dehydration of gas tower, the coal gas after drying respectively enters in gas fired-boiler and hot-blast stove, fires with entering Natural gas in gas boiler and hot-blast stove, which mixes, carries out burning utilization.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system of the utility model;
In figure, the direction of arrow indicates the flow direction of fluid;
In figure, 1- gasification cooling flue, 11- gasification cooling flue drum, 2- high-temperature cyclone dust extractor, 21- unloading valve one, 22- unloading valve two, 3- waste heat boiler, 31- waste heat boiler drum, 4- scrubber, 5- dehydration of gas tower, 6- gas fired-boiler, 7- steam-electric power unit, 8- waste gas spreading chimney, 9- hot-blast stove, 10- smelting furnace, 101- exhaust pass.
Specific embodiment
The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
As shown in connection with fig. 1, a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system, it includes sequentially connected vapour Change cooling stack 1, high-temperature cyclone dust extractor 2, waste heat boiler 3, scrubber 4, dehydration of gas tower 5 and gas fired-boiler 6, combustion gas Boiler 6 is connect by pipe network with steam-electric power unit 7.The gas exit of dehydration of gas tower 5 is also connected with hot-blast stove 9, hot-blast stove 9 It is connect by pipeline with smelting furnace 10.
Gasification cooling flue 1 is connected with gasification cooling flue drum 11, gasification cooling flue 1 by tedge and down-comer It is inside connected with the cooling water of circulation, cooling water and coal gas of high temperature carry out heat exchange in the way of radiation heat transfer, and cooling water absorbs high The sensible heat of warm coal gas so that coal gas of high temperature by 1450 DEG C of 800 DEG C for dropping to outlet or so, make cooling water be converted into saturated vapor into Enter and is stored in gasification cooling flue drum 11.1 gas inlet of gasification cooling flue by exhaust pass 101 with connect melting The gas exit of furnace 10 connects, and gasification cooling flue 1 is " U " type, the exhaust pass 101 connecting with smelting furnace 10 and level side It is 5~45 ° to included angle, 101 internal coat of exhaust pass has refractory material, and exhaust pass 101 is in tilted layout, so that and high Warm coal gas flows back in smelting furnace 10 from the high temperature fluid that smelting furnace 10 enters exhaust pass 101 together.5~20m of length, vertically Highly 5~40m, 1~3m of diameter.
20~50g/Nm of entrance dust content of gas of high-temperature cyclone dust extractor 23, efficiency of dust collection reaches 90% or more, in order to avoid Influence the normal operation of subsequent waste heat boiler.The lower part of high-temperature cyclone dust extractor 2 is equipped with unloading valve component, unloading valve component It is mounted on pipeline, unloading valve component preferably includes two unloading valves arranged up and down, unloading valve 21 and unloading valve 2 22.It needs When unloading ash, the unloading valve 1 being located above first is opened, and dust is allowed to fall into the pipeline between unloading valve 1 and unloading valve 2 22 In, then unloading valve 1 is closed, and the underlying opening of unloading valve 2 22 allows dust to fall, finally, unloading valve 2 22 is closed, Grey movement is unloaded in completion, and the coal gas for guaranteeing to unload positive pressure during ash does not leak outside.Unloading valve 1 and unloading valve 2 22 beat on and off It closes using conventional power it is achieved that such as electronic, pneumatic etc., belong to known normal to those skilled in the art Know, details are not described herein.
Waste heat boiler 3 uses vertical pyramidal structure, and fire tube is arranged in waste heat boiler 3 in honeycomb, and coal gas walks fire tube, this Sample ensure that coal gas of high temperature can come into full contact with inside the fire tube of waste heat boiler 3 with external cooling water and exchange heat, and solve 800 DEG C or so of gas heat and cooling water heat transfer effect bad problem.To enable coal gas of high temperature to be down to from 800 DEG C 250 DEG C or so, the sensible heat of coal gas of high temperature is allowed further to be recycled.The fire tube of waste heat boiler uses the fire of wear-resistant material Pipe, or in fire tube internal spray wear-resistant material, such as ceramics etc., it effectively prevent the premature fire of grinding away of the ash-laden gas of high temperature Pipe, waste heat boiler 3 are connected with waste heat boiler drum 31, the saturated vapor that waste heat boiler 3 generates enter waste heat boiler drum 31 into Row storage.
Dust content of gas used in this heat transfer process cannot be too big, in order to avoid block waste heat boiler 3 in heat transfer process Fire tube and cause equipment fault.It is dusted so high-temperature cyclone dust extractor 2 must be arranged before waste heat boiler 3.
Scrubber 4 uses the structure type of the annular seam washing tower of outlet under upper air, and under scrubber 4 The cone valve (not shown) of portion's setting hydraulic control is belonged to those skilled in the art using hydraulic control cone valve Common knowledge, details are not described herein.The pressure and gas speed of entire gas energy recovery system are controlled by adjusting cone valve, and It can be adjusted in real time.The spool face of cone valve carries out built-up welding using the welding rod of antifriction metal (AFM) material, prevents in high-speed flow The premature spool of grinding away of the tiny grains of sand.
Multiple nozzles are installed in the inside of scrubber 4, wash after the water atomization that nozzle sprays it to dust-laden coal gas It washs, 2~20g/Nm of dust content of gas of scrubber entrance3, the dust content of gas of outlet is 5mg/Nm3Left and right, washes away coal gas Contained in dust, have the function that purify coal gas.
Dehydration of gas tower 5 effectively removes the water in coal gas using the mode of the dehydration of lower part whirlwind and the dehydration of top filler Point, so that it is exported the water content < 5g/Nm of coal gas3, reaching does not influence 9 normal combustion of subsequent gas fired-boiler 6 or hot-blast stove Purpose.
Purified coal gas a part enters gas fired-boiler 6, and the mixing (figure of burner one is provided in the burner hearth of gas fired-boiler 6 In be not shown), mixing of the mixing burner one for the mixed combustion of low-heat value gas and natural gas is provided in the burner hearth of gas fired-boiler 6 One (not shown) of heat storage and flame stabilization device, being mixed into a certain proportion of natural gas makes the low-heat value gas of 500Kcal or so can be with Stablize burning, solves the problems, such as that low-heat value gas itself is aphlogistic.Under the premise of guaranteeing to stablize burning, natural gas is controlled Additional amount, make natural gas is mixed into ratio minimum.
Gasification cooling flue drum 11, waste heat boiler drum 31 are connect by pipeline with gas fired-boiler 6.Gas fired-boiler 6 is certainly Body generates a part of superheated steam, and the saturation of the gasification cooling flue drum 11 and the generation of waste heat boiler drum 31 to upstream is steamed Vapour carries out the superheated steam that Overheating Treatment generates 430 DEG C.
Gas fired-boiler 6 is connected with waste gas spreading chimney 8, will after the waste gas purification after burning by waste gas spreading chimney 8 into Row emptying.
Steam-electric power unit 7 is generated electricity using the superheated steam that gas fired-boiler 6 generates, so that the height that smelting furnace 10 generates The gas reforming of warm low heat value is used at electric power resource.
Mixing two (not shown) of burner is provided in the burner hearth of hot-blast stove 9, mixing burner two is used for low-heat value gas With the mixing of the mixed combustion of natural gas, the burner hearth of hot-blast stove 9 is provided with two (not shown) of heat storage and flame stabilization device.Purified coal gas A part, which is mixed into a certain proportion of natural gas into hot-blast stove 9, allows the coal gas of calorific value 500Kcal to stablize burning, solves low The aphlogistic problem of calorific value of gas itself.And the additional amount of natural gas is controlled, and under the premise of guaranteeing to stablize burning, natural gas Be mixed into ratio minimum.Coal gas burns in hot-blast stove 9 to be formed in the smelting furnace 10 of hot wind return front, to the molten of smelting furnace 10 Refining process provides institute's calorific requirement.
Heat storage and flame stabilization device one is identical with two structure of heat storage and flame stabilization device, belongs to for a person skilled in the art known normal Know, details are not described herein.
It can be adjusted into the gas volume of gas fired-boiler 6 and hot-blast stove 9 according to process requirement, guarantee purified coal gas Sufficiently recycle.
High temperature resistant flexible section is provided on pipeline used in the utility model, for guarantee entire pipeline sealing and It expands with heat and contract with cold.
Technical characteristic (such as unloading valve one, unloading valve two, the mixing burner with serial number name being related in this specification One, it is second-class that burner two, heat storage and flame stabilization device one, heat storage and flame stabilization device are mixed), it is only for each technical characteristic is distinguished, not Represent positional relationship, erection sequence and the job order etc. between each technical characteristic.
In the description of this specification, it is to be understood that the side of the descriptions such as " upper and lower ", " upstream ", " lower part ", " lower section " Position or positional relationship be orientation or positional relationship based on the figure, it is only for convenient for description the utility model and Simplify description, rather than the device or element of indication or suggestion meaning must have a particular orientation, with specific orientation construction And operation, therefore should not be understood as limiting the present invention.
Although the foregoing describe specific embodiment of the present utility model, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art, Described embodiment is only a part of the embodiment of the utility model, and instead of all the embodiments, these are only to lift Example explanation, the protection scope of the utility model is to be defined by the appended claims.Those skilled in the art is without departing substantially from this It, can be to these embodiments under any creative labor of no process under the premise of the principle and essence of utility model Various changes or modifications are made, but these change and modification each fall within the protection scope of the utility model.

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1. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system, which is characterized in that the HIsmelt melting producer gas Energy recovery utilizing system includes: sequentially connected gasification cooling flue, high-temperature cyclone dust extractor, waste heat boiler, gas washing The gas exit of tower, dehydration of gas tower and gas fired-boiler, the dehydration of gas tower is also connected with hot-blast stove;
The gasification cooling flue is connected with gasification cooling flue drum;
The waste heat boiler is connected with waste heat boiler drum;
The gas inlet of the gasification cooling flue connects the gas exit of the smelting furnace.
2. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described Hot-blast stove is connect by pipeline with the smelting furnace.
3. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described The fire tube of wear-resistant material is installed, the fire tube is arranged in honeycomb, and the coal gas walks the fire tube in waste heat boiler.
4. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described The lower part of high-temperature cyclone dust extractor is equipped with unloading valve component, and the unloading valve component includes two unloading valves arranged up and down.
5. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described Gas fired-boiler is connected with steam-electric power unit.
6. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described Mixing burner one is provided in the burner hearth of gas fired-boiler, the mixing burner one mixes the mixed of combustion for low-heat value gas and natural gas It closes, is provided with heat storage and flame stabilization device one in the burner hearth of the gas fired-boiler.
7. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as claimed in claim 6, which is characterized in that described Mixing burner two is provided in the burner hearth of hot-blast stove, the mixing burner two mixes the mixed of combustion for low-heat value gas and natural gas It closes, the burner hearth of the hot-blast stove is provided with heat storage and flame stabilization device two.
8. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described Gas fired-boiler is connected with waste gas spreading chimney.
9. a kind of HIsmelt smelting furnace gas energy recycling system as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that described Gasification cooling flue drum, the waste heat boiler drum are connect by pipeline with the gas fired-boiler.
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