EP0213380A2 - Souffleur de suie - Google Patents

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EP0213380A2
EP0213380A2 EP86110284A EP86110284A EP0213380A2 EP 0213380 A2 EP0213380 A2 EP 0213380A2 EP 86110284 A EP86110284 A EP 86110284A EP 86110284 A EP86110284 A EP 86110284A EP 0213380 A2 EP0213380 A2 EP 0213380A2
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sootblower
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Georg Ziegler
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23J—REMOVAL OR TREATMENT OF COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OR COMBUSTION RESIDUES; FLUES 
    • F23J3/00—Removing solid residues from passages or chambers beyond the fire, e.g. from flues by soot blowers
    • F23J3/02—Cleaning furnace tubes; Cleaning flues or chimneys
    • F23J3/023—Cleaning furnace tubes; Cleaning flues or chimneys cleaning the fireside of watertubes in boilers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F22—STEAM GENERATION
    • F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
    • F22B1/00—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method
    • F22B1/02—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method by exploitation of the heat content of hot heat carriers
    • F22B1/18—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method by exploitation of the heat content of hot heat carriers the heat carrier being a hot gas, e.g. waste gas such as exhaust gas of internal-combustion engines
    • F22B1/1838—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method by exploitation of the heat content of hot heat carriers the heat carrier being a hot gas, e.g. waste gas such as exhaust gas of internal-combustion engines the hot gas being under a high pressure, e.g. in chemical installations
    • F22B1/1846—Methods of steam generation characterised by form of heating method by exploitation of the heat content of hot heat carriers the heat carrier being a hot gas, e.g. waste gas such as exhaust gas of internal-combustion engines the hot gas being under a high pressure, e.g. in chemical installations the hot gas being loaded with particles, e.g. waste heat boilers after a coal gasification plant
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28G—CLEANING OF INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL SURFACES OF HEAT-EXCHANGE OR HEAT-TRANSFER CONDUITS, e.g. WATER TUBES OR BOILERS
    • F28G1/00—Non-rotary, e.g. reciprocated, appliances
    • F28G1/16—Non-rotary, e.g. reciprocated, appliances using jets of fluid for removing debris
    • F28G1/166—Non-rotary, e.g. reciprocated, appliances using jets of fluid for removing debris from external surfaces of heat exchange conduits

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  • the invention relates to a soot blower for a heat exchanger surface, which consists of parallel tubes which carry a cooling medium and are welded together to form a wall, at least one soot blowing tube which can be filled with a soot blowing medium and which has at least one nozzle for the exit of the soot blowing medium is provided in the wall.
  • Such a sootblower is known from CH-PS 648 397.
  • the sootblower tube is coaxially surrounded by a tube of the heat exchanger surface so that cooling medium flows in the space between the two tubes and protects the sootblower tube against excessive temperatures.
  • this solution which is good in itself, has the disadvantage that the outlet temperature of the cooling medium from the double tube is influenced by the temperature of the soot blowing medium and therefore deviates from the outlet temperature of the cooling medium emerging from the other tubes of the heat exchanger surface.
  • this object is achieved in that at least one protective tube connected to the heat exchanger surface is arranged on the side of the wall exposed to the heat and in front of the sootblower tube, through which the same cooling medium flows as the heat exchanger surface, and that the nozzle is located between the Protective tube and the wall extends.
  • the protective tube arranged in front of the sootblast tube is exposed to practically the same thermodynamic conditions as the other tubes of the heat exchanger surface, so that the outlet temperature of the cooling medium from the protective tube and that from the other tubes of the heat exchanger surface are essentially the same.
  • the sootblower has good accessibility to the sootblower tube during assembly and for any repairs, and - depending on the need - the nozzles or their number can be changed in a simple manner.
  • a second heat exchanger surface 2, which also has the shape of an eight-sided regular prism 2 consists of a plurality of vertical wall tubes 3 ′ and webs 7 ′ welded to one another. It surrounds the prism of the heat transfer surface 1 coaxially and is rotated by 22.5 ° with respect to the inner prism. At their lower ends in FIG.
  • the wall pipes 3 open into an octagonal horizontal distributor 3l and at their upper ends into a collector 3l 'Ent which is the same as the distributor 3l and is arranged parallel to it speaking, the wall pipes 3 'open at the bottom in a distributor 32 and at the top in a collector 32', the distributor 32 and the collector 32 'also being octagonal and of identical design and arranged parallel to one another.
  • the collectors 3l ', 32' are at the same height, whereas the outer distributor 32 is arranged lower than the inner distributor 3l.
  • the heat exchanger surfaces 1 and 2 are tightly welded to the associated distributor 3l or 32 and the associated collector 3l 'or 32'.
  • the distributors 3l, 32 are connected to at least one water source, not shown, and the collectors 3l ', 32' to at least one steam consumer, not shown.
  • Hot synthesis gas which flows in the direction of arrow 20 from top to bottom through the inner prism, then flows around its distributor 3l (arrows 20 ') and then rises between the inner prism and the outer prism.
  • the synthesis gas gives off heat to the water in the wall pipes 3 and 3 ', steam being generated.
  • the heat exchanger surfaces 1 and 2 are accommodated with their distributors 3l or 32 and collectors 3l 'or 32' in a common pressure vessel l0 in which the pressure is largely the same.
  • a sootblower tube 4 is provided, which can be fed with the aid of a control valve 8 with a compressed gas acting as a sootblowing medium from at least one compressed gas source, not shown.
  • a protective tube 6 is arranged in front of each soot blowing tube 4 and parallel to it, which ends at the bottom in the distributor 3l and at the top in the collector 3l '.
  • the protective tubes have the same diameter as the wall tubes 3 and are made of the same material as this.
  • sootblast pipes 4 protect the sootblast pipes 4 from excessive temperatures and are similar to thermodynamic conditions as the wall tubes 3 subjected so that the steam content of the water-steam mixture emerging from them is approximately equal to that of the mixture emerging from the wall tubes 3.
  • a plurality of sheet metal pieces l6 connect each protective tube 6 to the two nearest wall tubes 3.
  • nozzles 5 are provided which extend between the protective tube 6 and the wall tubes 3, namely through the gaps between two sheet metal pieces l6.
  • the nozzles of a blowpipe 4 are directed alternately against the next but one side of the inner prism, so that the inner surface of each side of this prism is swept from two sides by compressed gas (FIG. 2).
  • all pipes are accessible from at least one wall side, which is favorable both for assembly and for repairs.
  • each soot blast tube 14 is provided in each octagon side of the outer heat transfer surface 2, four soot blast tubes 14 are provided, each of which takes the place of a web 7 '.
  • Two of the blowpipes l4 are provided in the central region of the side, and the nozzles l5 of the blowpipe l4 located on the left of the center are directed against the outside of the inner prism provided on the right of the center; Accordingly, the nozzles l5 of the blowpipes 14 located on the right of the center are directed towards the outside of the inner primsma extending to the left of the center.
  • the two other sootblast tubes 14 on each outer prism side are attached near the edges of this prism. Their nozzles l5 are each directed towards the side of the outer prism adjacent to the associated edge.
  • the function of the soot blower according to FIGS. 1 and 2 is dependent on the degree and distribution of the contamination of the heat exchanger surface and 2 by the synthesis gas.
  • compressed gas is blown onto the surfaces of the two prisms via the sootblower pipes 4 and 14 and the nozzles 5 and 15 and is cleaned in the process.
  • the control valves 8 can be operated both manually and automatically. It has been shown that in most cases it is sufficient to alternately blow compressed gas onto the surfaces for short time intervals; In the period between the blowing intervals, only a small amount of compressed gas is led into the blowing pipes in order to achieve a certain cooling effect and to avoid a possible blockage of the nozzles.
  • a sootblower tube 4 ' has a decreasing diameter in the flow direction of the compressed gas, cylindrical alternating with obliquely tapered sections, so that on the side of the blower tube 4' facing the protective tube there is a circumferential surface which runs smoothly from top to bottom .
  • the sootblower pipe 4 ' is welded tightly instead of a web between two wall pipes 3.
  • the decrease in diameter has the following reasons:
  • Each nozzle 5 causes a decrease in the amount of compressed gas inside the sootblower tube 4 'and thus a certain pressure drop. With an increasing number of nozzles 5, the pressure drops add up relatively quickly. By reducing the cross-section of the sootblower tube 4 ', the pressure loss is compensated, the gradation being optimized so that the costs and the pressure curve remain within reasonable limits.
  • sootblower tube 4 Due to the smooth surface of the sootblower tube 4 'on one side, it is possible over the entire length of the tube to use the same nozzles 5. It is also possible to have the diameter of the blowpipes continuously reduced so that the whole pipe forms an oblique cone.
  • the nozzle 5 according to FIG. 6 has the advantage that a large number of them are undrilled on the soot blowing tube 4 or 4 'during assembly, i.e. can still be attached without outlet bore 50 and only after commissioning - when the actual cleaning needs have been determined - only the really necessary nozzles 5 can be made ready for operation simply by producing the bore 50.
  • a nozzle 5 'with a larger diameter is provided, which forms a more acute angle with the plane in which the webs 7 extend than the nozzle 5 in FIGS. 3 and 4 .
  • the nozzle 5 ' is connected to the soot blowing tube 4' via a curved connecting pipe l3.
  • control valve 8 For the sake of simplicity, only one control valve 8 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, although such a valve is provided for each soot blowing tube 4, 14. However, it may be more expedient to control the amount of pressurized gas for all soot pipes 4 and all soot pipes 14 simultaneously using a single valve. Operational reliability can be increased if several control valves are connected redundantly in series and / or in parallel. It is also possible to use very simple shut-off valves instead of the control valves if the contamination is very high, so that the largest possible amount of soot blowing medium is constantly blown against the heat exchanger surfaces during normal operation.
  • the nozzles 5 and 15 can be directed onto walls other than those shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. In contrast to FIG. 2, if required, several nozzles can act simultaneously on the same area of a wall from different directions.
  • the sootblast tubes and the protective tubes can also have a cross-section other than circular, e.g. elliptical cross section.

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CH3779/85A CH667521A5 (de) 1985-09-03 1985-09-03 Russblaeser.
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EP (1) EP0213380B1 (fr)
JP (1) JPH0776603B2 (fr)
CN (1) CN1008660B (fr)
CH (1) CH667521A5 (fr)
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ZA864669B (en) 1987-02-25
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CH667521A5 (de) 1988-10-14
US4765394A (en) 1988-08-23
CN1008660B (zh) 1990-07-04
JPS6256794A (ja) 1987-03-12
JPH0776603B2 (ja) 1995-08-16
EP0213380A3 (en) 1988-09-21
DE3669772D1 (de) 1990-04-26

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