EP2597369A1 - Luft-Gas-Mischvorrichtung für Gasbrenner mit Vormischung - Google Patents

Luft-Gas-Mischvorrichtung für Gasbrenner mit Vormischung Download PDF

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EP2597369A1
EP2597369A1 EP12193596.9A EP12193596A EP2597369A1 EP 2597369 A1 EP2597369 A1 EP 2597369A1 EP 12193596 A EP12193596 A EP 12193596A EP 2597369 A1 EP2597369 A1 EP 2597369A1
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    • 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
    • F23D14/46—Details, e.g. noise reduction means
    • F23D14/62—Mixing devices; Mixing tubes
    • F23D14/64—Mixing devices; Mixing tubes with injectors
    • 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
    • F23D14/46—Details, e.g. noise reduction means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23L—SUPPLYING AIR OR NON-COMBUSTIBLE LIQUIDS OR GASES TO COMBUSTION APPARATUS IN GENERAL ; VALVES OR DAMPERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CONTROLLING AIR SUPPLY OR DRAUGHT IN COMBUSTION APPARATUS; INDUCING DRAUGHT IN COMBUSTION APPARATUS; TOPS FOR CHIMNEYS OR VENTILATING SHAFTS; TERMINALS FOR FLUES
    • F23L5/00—Blast-producing apparatus before the fire
    • F23L5/02—Arrangements of fans or blowers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D2203/00—Gaseous fuel burners
    • F23D2203/007—Mixing tubes, air supply regulation

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  • the present invention relates to a mixer device for combustible gas burners having the characteristics as set out in the preamble to main claim no. 1.
  • the invention falls particularly, albeit not exclusively, in the technical field of boilers for domestic use intended for the heating of rooms and/or the heating of domestic hot water.
  • the combustion process within the boiler takes place between air and combustible gas, and air is drawn into the boiler by a fan.
  • the intake air flows into a mixer and draws the combustible gas by generating a vacuum.
  • said mixer takes the form of a converging tube and the vacuum is generated in the minimum cross section, the gas being injected into the flow of air through a tube that is coaxial to the converging tube.
  • a diverging tube of suitable length, through which a Venturi tube is substantially produced, is inserted downstream of the minimum cross section.
  • the amount of gas drawn by the vacuum is controlled by means of a throttle valve, which maintains the gas to air ratio constant on variation of the fan speed (number of revolutions per minute).
  • the gas supply system to the mixer envisages a chamber for channelling the gas, defined in a boxlike casing mounted on the mixer, coaxially extending to the Venturi tube, externally thereto, provided with a pipe union attached to the gas line, and wherein the chamber communicates with the minimum cross section of the Venturi tube for the inlet of the gas into the mixer.
  • One main aim of the invention is that of making available in the fan unit an integrated mixing device that is structurally and functionally designed to simplify the components necessary for integration of the devices, thus facilitating the assembly thereof while at the same time ensuring, for plant engineering requirements, a variability of possible positionings and/or orientations between the gas connection and the mixer, in order to facilitate the installation of the device on the basis of the plant engineering constraints and dimensions normally existing in the installation of said devices.
  • 1 globally indicates an air-combustible gas mixer device, produced in accordance with the present invention and prepared to be associated to a heating device such as a boiler, not shown.
  • a burner again not shown, is envisaged in the boiler, in a manner that is in itself known, said burner being powered by the combustible air-gas mixture preventively mixed in mixer device 1.
  • the device comprises a fan unit 2 with an impeller 3, driven around an axis of rotation X, which is provided with radial blades 4 extending between an axial intake section 5 and a radially opposed delivery section 6.
  • the impeller 3 is housed in a manifold 7, within which sections 5 and 6 are defined.
  • Each of the impeller blades 4 is mounted on a base surface 3a of the impeller 3, transversely extending to axis X, and is extended into a central hub 8 for connection with the rotation shaft 9 driven by an electric motor, globally indicated by 10, and conveniently of the brushless type.
  • the manifold 7 of the impeller is made in two parts which can be tightened to each other, one of which, indicated by 7a, is shaped like a spiral volute, while the other part, indicated by 7b, is designed for the closure of the spiral volute and presents a discoid shape that interests the front portion of the fan in which the intake section 5 of the fan is obtained.
  • the mixing device Upstream of the intake section 5 of the fan, from which the air from the fan is drawn and directed to the burner, the mixing device comprises a tubular Venturi tube 11, coaxially arranged with axis X and comprising a first portion 12 converging into a minimum cross section zone 13 and a diverging portion 14, stretching from the zone of section 13, extending the portion 12 and terminating at the level of intake section 5.
  • the two portions of tube 12, 14 are structurally independent of each other and also present end profiles of the respective circular end sections, facing each other, having different diameters, the diameter of the circular end profile of the converging portion 12 being smaller than the diameter of the corresponding circular end profile of the diverging portion 14, contiguous thereto at the level of the minimum cross section of the tube 11.
  • an annular passage 13a that is concentric to axis X is identified, through which the flow of gas is channelled into the mixing tube 11. More in particular, the gas, supplied by a suitable gas line and for example delivered by a suitable throttle valve, is channelled into a gas supply chamber 15 annularly extending outside the tube 11, coaxially thereto.
  • the chamber 15 is substantially defined by the annular space extending to externally surround the tube 11, a space which is radially comprised between the tube itself and an opposing lateral wall 16 having a cylindrical profile, a radial pipe union 17 for the supply of gas to chamber 15 being envisaged in wall 16.
  • the wall 16 is connected at one of its ends axial to the converging tubular portion 12, while it is lengthened at its opposite end in a counter-flange 18 arranged for a reciprocal tightening with a flange 19 provided in part 7b of manifold 7.
  • the diverging portion 14 of tube 11 is integral with part 7b of manifold 7 of the fan, in the area affected by flange 19.
  • the converging portion 12 is, on the other hand, obtained integral with the counter-flange 18. More in particular, the counter-flange 18, the wall 16 with the pipe union 17, and the converging portion 12 of the pipe 11 are obtained in one piece with each other to produce a box-like body, which when tightened onto the fan, by means of the reciprocal tightening of flange 19 and counter-flange 18, defines, together with portion 7b of the manifold, the chamber 15 for the supply of gas into the mixer.
  • a boxlike body can be conveniently made of plastic material.
  • a plurality of tightening holes are envisaged (for example, threaded blind holes 25a envisaged in the flange 19 and through holes 25b envisaged in the counter-flange 18), for the engagement of the respective tightening screws 26, which are circumferentially arranged at a regular interval in a predetermined number, and at corresponding positions on both the flange and counter-flange Thanks to the plurality of aforesaid tightening holes, the counter-flange 18 can be tightened with a chosen angular positioning relative to the flange 19, so that the box-like gas supply body can take one of a series of positions that are angularly distinct from each other, to change the relative orientation of the pipe union 17 with respect to the manifold 7 of the fan.
  • a plurality of possible relative positionings are thus available between the pipe union and the delivery section of the manifold, as represented in figure 5 (the dotted line indicates the possible positionings), which facilitates the mounting of the device on the basis of the plant engineering constraints and dimensions for each application.
  • the figures represent six fastening holes (25a, 25b) for each flange, said decision however representing a preferred, but non-limiting, configuration.
  • 30 also indicates a support plate for a valve unit, only schematically represented and marked by 31, adapted to supply the flow of gas to the chamber 15 of the mixer.
  • the support plate 30 is susceptible to interposition between the flange 19 and the counter-flange 18 to be affixed to the mixing device following the aforesaid tightening.
  • 30a indicates an attachment appendage extending at a right angle from the plate 30 and having a through hole 30b for the housing of an attachment 31a envisaged on the valve 31, for the affixing thereof with a tightening nut indicated by 32 and only schematically illustrated in the drawings.
  • the dotted line represents possible positionings of the collector 35.
  • Figures 9 and 10 illustrate a variant embodiment of the manifold 35 of the air part, said manifold incorporating a silencer to reduce noise.
  • the tubular silencer is produced in two half shells 36a, 36b assembled together with respective coupling elements, all indicated by 37.
  • a series of projections 38 are envisaged externally to an inlet collar 39 projecting from the boxlike body on the gas side, the projections and the collar being integrated into said body and jointly defining a seat for housing and retaining a circular end profile 40 of the silencer.
  • One preferred embodiment envisages four projections 38 placed at 90° from one other, through which the correct junction of the coupling parts is ensured.
  • the mixer device in order to regularise the flow of gas in the inlet zone of the flow of air at the level of the passage 13a, the mixer device is provided, in a variant embodiment illustrated in figure 2A , with a plurality of finned appendages 27 having axial development, which are elongated in parallel to the direction of the X axis and are circumferentially arranged in proximity to the outer surface of the converging portion 12 of tube, to extend at the level of the annular passage 13a for the channelling of the gas into the minimum cross section of the tube 11.
  • Such axial finning is thus suitable for guiding the flow of gas channelled into the Venturi tube and substantially uniforming the motion regime thereof with the motion regime of the flow of air axially fed through the first converging section of the Venturi tube.
  • the appendages 27 are preferably shaped like plate-like fins obtained integral with the converging portion 12 of the Venturi tube external thereto.
  • the fins 27 are conveniently radially arranged with respect to the axis of rotation X from the outer surface of the converging portion 12, presenting flat, opposing faces and are arranged at regular angular intervals. Tests carried out by the Applicant have shown that a plurality of at least six fins 27 is sufficient for obtaining effective results in the regularisation of the flow of gas at the level of the mixing zone. A plurality with a number of fins equal to or greater than eight in any case represents a preferred, albeit non-limiting, embodiment.
  • the radial extension of the finned appendices 27 is comprised in the radial space delimited by the end profiles of the first (12) and second (14) portion of the tube 11, at the level of the minimum cross section thereof.
  • a preferred shape of the fin also envisages that said fin has a edge 27a having a rectilinear profile, on the part opposite the leading edge with the converging tubular portion 12, said edge 27a extending in parallel to said axial direction and being connected at its ends with a pair of opposing lateral edges 27b, perpendicular thereto and having a radial extension in respect of axis X.
  • the device is also provided with a second plurality of finned appendages 29, located inside the converging portion 12 of the tube 11, at the level of the end profile section of said converging portion.
  • the fins 29 of said second plurality are obtained integral with the first converging portion 12 of the tube 11 and exert the principal function of contrasting the detachment of the flow of air at the level of the end edge thus uniforming the motion regime of the flow of air in proximity of the mixing zone.
  • a preferred, albeit non-limiting, embodiment envisages four finned appendages 29 arranged at regular angular intervals (90° from each other) in the transverse end section of the converging portion 12 of the tube, at the level of the minimum cross section 13 thereof.
  • the invention thus achieves the proposed aims while achieving the stated advantages on known solutions.

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