EP0548396A1 - Dispositif servant à mélanger deux composants gazeux et brûleur dans lequel ce dispositif est appliqué - Google Patents

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EP0548396A1
EP0548396A1 EP91122141A EP91122141A EP0548396A1 EP 0548396 A1 EP0548396 A1 EP 0548396A1 EP 91122141 A EP91122141 A EP 91122141A EP 91122141 A EP91122141 A EP 91122141A EP 0548396 A1 EP0548396 A1 EP 0548396A1
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Jakob Dr. Keller
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F15—FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL
    • F15D—FLUID DYNAMICS, i.e. METHODS OR MEANS FOR INFLUENCING THE FLOW OF GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F15D1/00—Influencing flow of fluids
    • F15D1/0015—Whirl chambers, e.g. vortex valves
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/10—Mixing by creating a vortex flow, e.g. by tangential introduction of flow components
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C7/00—Combustion apparatus characterised by arrangements for air supply
    • F23C7/002—Combustion apparatus characterised by arrangements for air supply the air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/20—Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone
    • F23D14/22—Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone with separate air and gas feed ducts, e.g. with ducts running parallel or crossing each other
    • F23D14/24—Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone with separate air and gas feed ducts, e.g. with ducts running parallel or crossing each other at least one of the fluids being submitted to a swirling motion
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D17/00—Burners for combustion conjointly or alternatively of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel
    • F23D17/002—Burners for combustion conjointly or alternatively of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel gaseous or liquid fuel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23R—GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
    • F23R3/00—Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel
    • F23R3/02—Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the air-flow or gas-flow configuration
    • F23R3/04—Air inlet arrangements
    • F23R3/10—Air inlet arrangements for primary air
    • F23R3/12—Air inlet arrangements for primary air inducing a vortex
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2900/00—Special features of, or arrangements for combustion apparatus using fluid fuels or solid fuels suspended in air; Combustion processes therefor
    • F23C2900/07002—Premix burners with air inlet slots obtained between offset curved wall surfaces, e.g. double cone burners

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  • the invention is based on a device for mixing two gaseous components according to the preamble of claim 1 and on a burner according to the preamble of claim 7.
  • a burner with two partial cone bodies is known from patent specification EP 0 321 809.
  • This burner has two tangentially aligned inflow gaps for air. In the area of the inflow gaps, liquid fuel is mixed into the air using inflow nozzles. This burner is not optimally designed for the admixture of gaseous fuels.
  • the invention seeks to remedy this.
  • the invention as characterized in the independent claims, achieves the object of providing a device for mixing two gaseous components which leads to particularly intimate and uniform mixing, and to provide a burner whose ability to be as uniform as possible Generating primary temperature distribution is advantageously increased by this device.
  • the advantages achieved by the invention are essentially to be seen in the fact that simple measures in the area of the inflow of one of the gaseous components enable particularly rapid mixing of the two components. If this device is used in a burner of the type described, a particularly uniform mixing of the combustion air with the gaseous fuel is achieved before the onset of the reaction, which results in very good combustion characteristics, in particular the occurrence of undesired combustion products, e.g. NOx, advantageously reduced.
  • the fuel is also better utilized, which suppresses the formation of unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds and carbon monoxide.
  • the burner 1 shows a schematic, highly simplified, perspective illustration of one of the burners 1 of a gas turbine system.
  • This burner 1 can also be used in other systems in which hot gases are generated.
  • the burner 1 consists of two hollow partial cone bodies 2, 3, the central axes of which run parallel and are offset from one another in the radial direction.
  • a collar 4 which is only partially shown, connects the partial cone bodies 2, 3 to one another.
  • the remaining brackets for the burner 1 and the inflow channels for the combustion air are not shown for the sake of clarity.
  • the displacement of the partial cone bodies 2, 3 creates two inflow gaps 5 each between an outer edge 6 and an adjacent inner edge 7 of the partial cone bodies 2, 3.
  • the two partial cone bodies 2, 3 each have the same opening angle.
  • a burner nozzle 8 is indicated with an arrow 9, which shows the supply of liquid fuel into the burner nozzle 8.
  • the burner 1 can also be operated without feeding the burner nozzle 8.
  • a guide plate 10 is generally rigidly attached to each of the outer edges 6. However, it is also conceivable to adjustably mount this guide plate 10. Between each guide plate 10 and the opposite outer wall of the corresponding one of the partial cone bodies 2 or 3, an inflow channel 11 is formed, which opens into the inflow gap 5. The course of the inflow channel 11 is shown schematically in FIG. 2. Arrows 12 indicate the inflow of the combustion air, which is almost tangential through the inflow gap 5 into the interior of the Partial cone body 2, 3 flows. The remaining supply of the combustion air is not shown.
  • inflow nozzles 13 are provided for introducing gaseous or gaseous fuel into the area of the inflow gap 5.
  • the associated fuel feed channel which is located on the outside of the burner 1, is not shown in FIG. 1 for the sake of a better overview, in FIG 2, however, the fuel supply channel 14 is indicated.
  • an arrow 15 indicates the direction of flow of the inflowing gaseous fuel.
  • ramps 16 are attached to the guide plates 10 in the inflow duct 11, which thicken in the direction of the inflowing combustion air onto the inflow gap 5 and which end in front of the inflow gap 5 with a tear-off edge 17.
  • the inflow nozzles 13 are arranged in the region next to and / or after the tear-off edge 17 of the ramps 16.
  • the inflow nozzles 13 are arranged in the range from one to about five times the hydraulic diameter of the ramps 16.
  • the distance between the inflow nozzles 13 and the tear-off edge 17 is comparatively large compared to the diameter of the inflow nozzles 13.
  • the swirling flow of the combustion air that separates from the tear-off edge 17 is shown in FIG. 2 by an arrow 18.
  • the ramps 16 extend into the inflow channel 11 to a length which corresponds approximately to three to five times the height of the inflow gap 5.
  • the same measure is also the minimum length of the inflow channel 11, and an extension of the inflow channel 11 beyond this minimum measure can bring about an improvement in flow.
  • the section A-A indicated in FIG. 2 is shown in FIG. 3. Between the ramps 16 there is an intermediate space 19 which is approximately the same width as the ramps 16.
  • Fuel jets 20 indicate in which area the inflow nozzles 13 introduce the gaseous fuel behind the cutting plane.
  • Vortexes 21 schematically outlined show the locations of the most violent eddying of the incoming combustion air.
  • the vortices generated by the ramps 16 are intended to amplify the momentum of the fuel jets 20.
  • the inlet nozzles 13 for the fuel inlet are arranged in such a way that the fuel reaches the area of the largest radially inwardly directed air velocity components in the area of the vortices 21.
  • the width of the spaces 19 does not have to correspond to the width of the ramps 16 in all applications.
  • the optimal mixing conditions can be set from case to case if the burner is optimized for certain applications. It is also possible to design burners in such a way that the width of the ramps 16 increases in the direction of the burner outlet.
  • the mixing can also be influenced by the height of the tear-off edge 17.
  • the tear-off edge will have a height of approximately 25% to approximately 50% of the height of the inflow gap 5.
  • These values can also be optimized for the particular application of the burner.
  • the ramps 16 can also be replaced or supplemented by milling in the guide plate 10 with the same effect, in particular when upgrading existing systems, this variant could be selected advantageously.
  • the device according to the invention for mixing two gaseous components can not only be used advantageously in burners or similar devices, as described in the exemplary embodiment, it can also be used wherever particularly intimate mixing of two gases is required. It is also conceivable to intimately mix different vapors or also vapors and gases with one another with this device.
  • the gaseous fuel flowing in through the inlet nozzles 13 is mixed with the combustion air.
  • the momentum of the rays of the incoming, high-calorific fuel is not sufficient for an intimate mixing of the two components. Even with reasonable technical effort, it is not possible to increase this momentum.
  • the ramps 16 with the tear-off edge 17 in the inflow channel 11 produce a targeted arrangement of longitudinal vortices in the inflow gap 5, as indicated by the arrow 18 and the vortices 21. These longitudinal vortices hit the fuel jets 20 and carry the gaseous fuel with them and ensure optimum mixing of the fuel with the combustion air.
  • the actual combustion takes place in the known flame front 22 of this type of burner.
  • a backflow zone 23 also forms, which stabilizes the flame front 22. With this burner, the intimate mixing of the fuels with the combustion air leads to combustion with very low thermal NOx generation and good utilization of the energy content of the fuels.

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EP91122141A EP0548396B1 (fr) 1991-12-23 1991-12-23 Dispositif servant à mélanger deux composants gazeux et brûleur dans lequel ce dispositif est appliqué
DE59104727T DE59104727D1 (de) 1991-12-23 1991-12-23 Vorrichtung für die Vermischung zweier gasförmiger Komponenten und Brenner, in welchem diese Vorrichtung eingesetzt wird.
US07/985,316 US5340306A (en) 1991-12-23 1992-12-04 Device for mixing two gaseous components and burner in which this device is employed
JP34202992A JP3219875B2 (ja) 1991-12-23 1992-12-22 ２種のガス状成分を混合する装置及びこの装置を内蔵したバーナ

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