EP0125933A1 - Verfahren zur Verbrennung von Bitumen - Google Patents

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EP0125933A1
EP0125933A1 EP84400284A EP84400284A EP0125933A1 EP 0125933 A1 EP0125933 A1 EP 0125933A1 EP 84400284 A EP84400284 A EP 84400284A EP 84400284 A EP84400284 A EP 84400284A EP 0125933 A1 EP0125933 A1 EP 0125933A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G5/00—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
    • F23G5/08—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating
    • F23G5/085—High-temperature heating means, e.g. plasma, for partly melting the waste
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G7/00—Incinerators or other apparatus for consuming industrial waste, e.g. chemicals
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21F—PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
    • G21F9/00—Treating radioactively contaminated material; Decontamination arrangements therefor
    • G21F9/28—Treating solids
    • G21F9/30—Processing
    • G21F9/32—Processing by incineration
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G2204/00—Supplementary heating arrangements
    • F23G2204/20—Supplementary heating arrangements using electric energy
    • F23G2204/201—Plasma
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G2209/00—Specific waste
    • F23G2209/18—Radioactive materials

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  • the present invention relates to techniques for destroying bitumens or pitches by combustion. It applies in particular, although in a nonlimiting manner, to the combustion of bitumens used for the storage by coating of radioactive waste originating from the operation of nuclear power plants.
  • bitumens which however consist essentially of hydrocarbons, burn very difficult.
  • the present invention specifically relates to a particularly efficient combustion process which is very simple to use.
  • This process is characterized in that the bitumen is first softened by preheating and in that it is then introduced into a combustion chamber proper, traversed by excess oxygen subjected to ionization by a intense UHF electric field, so as to bring the surface of the bitumen to a temperature above 1000 ° C. and to ensure its rapid vaporization and combustion in the oxygen plasma thus created.
  • the easy combustion of the bitumen previously softened by preheating is thus achieved, by combining the combination of two means which act in synergy, namely the presence of excess oxygen and the production of '' a plasma of this gas which is ionized by an ultra high frequency UHF electric field intended to bring the surface of the bitumen to a higher temperature at 1000 ° C and commonly between 1100 and 1300 ° C.
  • the frequency chosen for the UHF electric field is preferably between 50 and 100 MHz and a power of 5 to 60 KW.
  • this heating to UHF of the oxygen plasma is one of the characteristics essential for the proper functioning of the bitumen combustion process.
  • the frequency of the UHF electric field is adjusted in each particular case according to the composition of the bitumen to be treated.
  • a range of frequencies between 50 and 100 MHz is perfectly suitable and makes it possible to heat the binder rather than the structural materials (such as quartz or the various ceramics).
  • the useful heating power is most often between 5 and 60 KW and the combustion stops if the energy is dropped below a certain threshold.
  • the applied UHF field has the effect of causing and maintaining both the heating and the vaporization of the pitch in the oxygen atmosphere; the combustion flame is generally very short.
  • the pitch or bitumen to be destroyed by combustion generally falls into the viscous state by gravity in a combustion chamber with insulating walls in which an oxygen pressure is maintained at a value of 1 to 2 bars absolute.
  • the combustion chamber is surrounded by a jacket cooled for example with water to remove the radiation heat and swept outside by a flow of air which also extracts part of the calories by conduction, l heated water that can be used to preheat bitumen.
  • the present invention also relates to an application of the above bitumen combustion process to the reprocessing of bitumens loaded with radioactive waste for the purpose of separating and recovering the latter, which can thus be used for further processing or repackaging.
  • the process which is the subject of the invention makes it possible in this case to transform all the mineral residues and in particular the radioactive waste which is most often found in the form of salts in the bulk of the bitumen into oxides which come to deposit by flocculation in a chute located at the base of the combustion chamber, from where they can be transferred and accumulated in a storage container.
  • a carbon dioxide detector CO contained in these combustion gases is placed at the outlet of the combustion chamber and makes it possible to alert the operator ; in the case where such a gas is detected, it suffices to react by increasing the temperature and / or the pressure of oxygen to increase the oxygenation rate, that is to say combustion of the whole pitch and the various wastes or compounds it contains.
  • the only combustion gases which leave the atmosphere after passing through the absolute filter are oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and sulfur dioxide depending on the sulfur content of the bitumen consumed. In some cases it may be necessary to provide for a purification of the SO 3 ions possibly produced and contained in the combustion gases.
  • the process involves only the quantity of oxygen necessary for combustion with however a slight excess to mitigate the risks of insufficient oxidation, but without nitrogen which would be, in the case where air is used, a significant reaction retarder and would also produce nitrogen oxides very harmful.
  • the installation volume is reduced to the strict minimum and the combustion chamber made of refractory material, such as quartz or alumina, is completely closed to circulation near oxygen, which facilitates the confinement of radioactive products combustion residues .
  • These which come from the initial radioactive charge of the bitumen and the normal ashes of this bitumen are obtained in the form of a dry powder having a maximum degree of oxidation, that is to say in a state which makes them very easily usable for a subsequent de-vitrification treatment or insertion into concrete or epoxy resin if necessary.
  • a pitch barrel 1 is shown overturned in a funnel-shaped container 2 equipped with an electrical resistance or a circulation of heating liquid 3 allowing preheating and softening of the pitch. 4 which flows to the bottom of the container 2.
  • An alumina nozzle 5 conducts this molten pitch as far as the combustion chamber 6, the upper part 7 of which is made of quartz and the lower part 8 of which is made of stainless steel with a side jacket 9 traversed by a cooling water circulation.
  • an alumina gasket 10 sealing with the alumina nozzle 5 and, around the cylindrical quartz part of the combustion chamber 6, there are a number of turns 11 intended to be supplied by conductors 12 and 13 with very high frequency electric current.
  • an automatic flow control valve 17 which makes it possible to control the quantity and the pressure of the oxygen passing through the combustion chamber 6, a detector 18 of carbon monoxide CO possibly present. in the exhaust gases and an absolute filter 19 at the outlet of which the purified combustion gases are discharged into the atmosphere according to the arrows 20.
  • a funnel-shaped collector 21 which collects the ashes from the combustion of the bitumen 4 in the chamber 6 and leads them by gravity into a chute 22 subjected to the vibrations of a hammer percussion 23 into a container 24 for collecting said radioactive ash located at the bottom of the installation.
  • the pitch 4 is preheated in the enclosure 2 by means of the heating means 3 at a temperature of the order of 100 to 150 ° C. depending on its softening point.
  • a grid calibrated at 1/4 of the diameter of the discharge tube and not shown in the figure can be useful to retain the largest particles.
  • the pitch is rapidly overheated using the intense UHF field produced by the turns 11, a field whose frequency is of the order of 100 MHz in a particular example of implementation, the electric power involved being of the order of 5 to 60 KW to bring the pitch surface to a temperature in this same example between 1100 ° C and 1300 ° C.
  • the flow rate and the pressure of the oxygen gas entering 14 into the enclosure 6 are chosen so that combustion takes place in the presence of an excess of this gas so as to avoid any incomplete combustion which would then be detected. in the form of the existence of carbon monoxide CO at the level of the detector 18.
  • the output 20 of the absolute filter 19 there appear only the gases 0 2 , C0 2 1 H 2 0 and S0 2 completely free of any trace of radioactivity or of corrosive dust or aerosols.

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EP84400284A 1983-02-17 1984-02-10 Verfahren zur Verbrennung von Bitumen Expired EP0125933B1 (de)

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FR8302581A FR2541428A1 (fr) 1983-02-17 1983-02-17 Procede de combustion du bitume
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