EP2451582B1 - Elektrofilter - Google Patents

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EP2451582B1
EP2451582B1 EP10741897.2A EP10741897A EP2451582B1 EP 2451582 B1 EP2451582 B1 EP 2451582B1 EP 10741897 A EP10741897 A EP 10741897A EP 2451582 B1 EP2451582 B1 EP 2451582B1
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Claude Brupbacher
Jan Adams
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    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
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    • B03C3/49—Collecting-electrodes tubular
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    • B03C3/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapour, e.g. air, by electrostatic effect
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  • the invention relates to an electrostatic precipitator according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • EP 0 252 371 A1 describes an electrostatic precipitator in the form of an electrostatic precipitator, in which a particle- or dust-laden gas stream between parallel precipitation plates is guided in a substantially cylindrical housing portion. Between the parallel aligned precipitation plates are longitudinally extending lanes in which tensioned discharge electrodes are arranged in frame. Such tensioned in frame discharge electrodes are formed as wires and are subject to temperature changes corresponding mechanical tension. In addition to a possible tearing of the electrode wires through which a short circuit can take place, distortions in the electrode frame can also occur due to the mechanical stresses, as a result of which the distances between the electrode frames under high voltage and the neighboring deposition plates are unfavorably changed. In the case of broken electrode wires, in practical operation of electrostatic precipitators of this type, for maintenance reasons, often only the cracked individual electrode wires are removed, so that the electrostatic filter has gradually reduced power until complete maintenance.
  • US 4 077 783 A discloses an electrostatic filter wherein the Niedersdlagplatten and the electrodes are bent in a circle.
  • the main field of application is the dedusting of converter gas. Due to the discontinuous operation of converters, the gas purification system is alternately flowed through by dust-laden, combustible converter gas and only slightly dusty ambient air. During the blowing phase of the converter, the resulting flammable converter gas is collected in a gas container after the dust has been separated. A switching station installed after the filter allows the deflection of the non-combustible exhaust air via a chimney into the atmosphere. If the converter gas and the oxygen-containing exhaust air of the blowing pauses mix together, explosive gas mixtures can form, which can ignite in the electrostatic precipitator and lead to deflagration. Such deflagrations can lead to dust surges, which affect the separation efficiency of the electrostatic precipitator.
  • An inventive electrostatic precipitator with the sum of its features is therefore particularly suitable for this application, especially since the round housing shape allows a particularly favorable flow and at the same time a good mechanical strength of the entire electrostatic precipitator.
  • the electrodes are at least in a vertical orientation self-supporting dimensionally stable, so that can be dispensed with a simple way to clamp the electrodes. They can be formed in a preferred, but not necessary detailed design, for example, as per se known tube-sputtering electrodes be as electrodes with a square cross-section or as electrodes with a cross-section.
  • the electrode frame in addition to the support beam on at least one further stiffening spar, whereby the electrode frame receives better support.
  • the electrodes are guided on the stiffening spar, but not fixed in place.
  • At least some of the electrode frames have a different height from each other, depending on their position in the approximately circular cross-section.
  • the support spar preferably in the vertical direction at least a quarter, more preferably at least one third of a diameter of the housing cross-section as a distance from an upper and a lower end of the housing.
  • the carrier beam is formed as a knocking rod of the electrode frame, so that it is possible in a simple manner to abut the electrodes for dedusting. Due to the inventive mounting of the electrodes, it is regularly sufficient that the striking of the knocking rod takes place only from one side.
  • the support bars of the plurality of electrode frames extend between at least two, preferably exactly two in the longitudinal direction one behind the other arranged cross members and are held by these.
  • the cross member via electric insulators are mounted in the housing.
  • the cross member may be particularly preferably suspended in each case on a reinforcing ring of the housing.
  • Such reinforcing rings are known in particular in the design of electrostatic precipitators with a circular cross section, wherein between two reinforcing rings of the housing in each case a field of precipitation plates and electrode frame is arranged.
  • At least two of the electrode frames are connected to one another in a transverse direction via a free-floating fixing cross, in a preferred detailed design in the longitudinal direction in front of and / or behind a field of precipitation plates.
  • Fixiertraversen reduce with simple means the vibration of the individual electrode frame to each other, without weight or construction costs are significantly increased.
  • An inventive electrostatic filter comprises a housing (not shown) having a substantially constant and substantially circular cross-section in a cylindrical portion, wherein a longitudinal direction of the electrostatic filter in the direction of the cylinder axis, in which also a flow through the electrostatic filter with a particle or dust-laden gas takes place.
  • L reinforcing rings which on the one hand support the housing and on the other hand serve to support fields of precipitation plates.
  • a plurality of electrode frame 1 are fixed to the reinforcing rings, which are fixed parallel to each other in the transverse direction through the housing extending cross members 2.
  • the attachment to the cross members 2 takes place by means of a respective end region of a supporting beam 3 of the respective electrode frame.
  • Each of the end portions of the supporting beam 2 rests on one of the two cross members 2 and is secured there by further means.
  • An electrode frame 1 comprises in addition to the support beam 3, which extends in the longitudinal direction L of the housing, two vertical uprights 4 extending in the vertical or vertical direction H and a plurality of further longitudinally L parallel to the support spar 3 between the vertical uprights 4 extending stiffening beams 5.
  • the stiffening beams 5, the vertical bars 4 and the support beam 3 are fixed to each other fixed, so that a ladder-like frame is formed (see Fig. 1 ).
  • the ladder-frame-shaped electrode frame 1 is fastened via the end regions of the supporting beam 3 on the cross members 2, which in turn are suspended on vertical anchors 6 on the reinforcing rings (not shown) of the housing via insulators 7.
  • the entire electrode frame 1 is energized during operation with the adjacent deposition plates (not shown) grounded.
  • the in Fig. 1 shown electrode frame is shown for clarity without attached electrodes.
  • corresponding projections 3a are indicated on the support beam.
  • the electrodes 8 which are fixed exclusively fixed to the lugs 3 a of the supporting bars 3 of the electrode frame 1, both upwards and downwards vertically from the support bars 3 from.
  • the electrodes 8 are guided on the stiffening bars 5, for example by means arranged in the stiffening bars 5 holes or longitudinal slots. A stationary fixation on the stiffening bars 5 does not take place.
  • the electrodes 8 protrude in the embodiment shown in the vertical direction beyond the ends of the electrode frame 1 addition, whereby a particularly good utilization of the cylindrical gas-flow space is achieved.
  • Fig. 2 it is a frontal plan view of the overall arrangement of cross members 2 and electrode frame 1, which is suspended in the housing (not shown) of the electrostatic precipitator.
  • free-floating fixing braces 9 can be seen, which in each case connect some of the electrode frames 1 with one another in order to prevent the electrode frames from oscillating against each other during operation of the electrostatic filter.
  • Not shown are running between the electrode frame 1 precipitation plates of the electrostatic precipitator. Between the precipitation plates, which are aligned parallel to each other, remain free lanes in which the electrode frame 1 are arranged.
  • the electrodes 8 are in the present case designed as tube-spray electrodes. In particular, they have a sufficiently large cross-section in order to maintain a dimensionally stable shape, at least in the illustrated vertical orientation, in a self-supporting manner. A clamping of the electrodes over their length does not take place. Likewise, it is not necessary to provide the electrodes 8 which extend downwardly from the carrier spar 3, since they are designed to be dimensionally stable and guided on the stiffening bars 5 on the one hand.
  • the respective carrier beam 3 is struck by a known mechanism by means of knocking waves and hammering.
  • a striking of the supporting bars 3 from only one side is sufficient. But it can also be provided a two-sided striking.
  • the transverse beams 2 are arranged in the vertical direction H at such a large distance from an upper end of the housing (not shown) that it corresponds to at least about one third of the total diameter of the substantially circular housing.
  • the cross member 2 in the transverse direction Q are sufficiently long to accommodate many parallel electrode frame 1 and to optimally use the housing width.
  • the electrode frame 1 depending on the arrangement in the transverse direction Q have a different height, with a total of three different heights of electrode frame are provided.
  • the staggering of the lengths of the electrodes 8 used, depending on the position in the transverse direction, is even finer than the staggering of the frame heights in order to optimally utilize the space of the electrostatic precipitator for particle separation.

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  • Filtering Of Dispersed Particles In Gases (AREA)
  • Separation Using Semi-Permeable Membranes (AREA)
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CN102574132A (zh) 2012-07-11
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