US20090311638A1 - Burner and Method for Alternately Implementing Oxycombustion and Air Combustion - Google Patents

Burner and Method for Alternately Implementing Oxycombustion and Air Combustion Download PDF

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US20090311638A1
US20090311638A1 US12/373,616 US37361607A US2009311638A1 US 20090311638 A1 US20090311638 A1 US 20090311638A1 US 37361607 A US37361607 A US 37361607A US 2009311638 A1 US2009311638 A1 US 2009311638A1
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Guillaume De Smedt
Christian Imbernon
Jacques Mulon
Patrick Jean-Marie Recourt
Ivan Sanchez-Molinero
Remi Pierre Tsiava
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/32—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid using a mixture of gaseous fuel and pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air
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  • the present invention relates to a burner and a combustion method which can make use alternately of a high-oxygen-content gas or of air as oxidizer.
  • one proposed solution is to reinject flue gas produced by the said combustion or another combustion to partly make up for the absence of nitrogen.
  • This procedure serves to avoid a high production of NO x due both to the absence of nitrogen, and also to a lower flame temperature than in all-oxygen combustion.
  • the reinjected flue gas often nullifies the benefits of oxycombustion, such as, in particular, the lower proportion of unburnts from heavy oil residues, or the decrease of part of the ash, these unburnts and this ash then causing complications in the downstream flue gas treatment method.
  • This flue gas injection can be made essentially in two ways. First, by mixing the said flue gas with oxygen before its introduction into the burner, so as to reconstitute an oxidizer comprising about 21 to 27% oxygen and the remainder essentially consisting of CO 2 instead of nitrogen.
  • an oxidizer comprising about 21 to 27% oxygen and the remainder essentially consisting of CO 2 instead of nitrogen.
  • One advantage that can be found for this solution in the case of a conversion of an air boiler is the possibility of retaining the air burners with minor operating adjustments.
  • the premixing of the flue gases with the oxygen before their introduction into the burner may give rise to safety problems.
  • the flue gas can also be injected separately, either at a location of the combustion chamber, or through the burner.
  • the flue gas is injected at a velocity such as to lengthen the flame, which may overheat the elements of the combustion chamber (opposite wall or tubes, in the case of a boiler).
  • the flue gas injection velocities must be low, which has the effect of increasing the size of the burner and of creating layout problems, whereas it is well known that the surface areas of the combustion chamber must be maximized.
  • practice demonstrates the utility of being able to use the combustion burners in flexible mode, that is, alternately in oxycombustion and in air combustion.
  • it may be useful to be able to convert an oxycombustion into air combustion without replacing the burner.
  • it is preferable to start the combustion with air and then switch to oxycombustion for safety reasons.
  • a further object of the present invention is to propose a combustion device for alternately implementing an oxycombustion with flue gas recycle or an air combustion.
  • a further object of the present invention is to propose a combustion device for alternately implementing an oxycombustion with flue gas recycle or an air combustion, the said combustions producing a flame having a controlled size.
  • the invention relates to a method of combustion of at least one fuel using at least one oxidizer and at least one mainly inert gas, in which:
  • the invention further relates to a burner suitable for implementing the said method and comprising:
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a burner according to the invention.
  • the invention therefore relates to a method of combustion of at least one fuel using at least one oxidizer and at least one mainly inert gas, in which:
  • the method according to the invention implements the main combustion of a fuel by an oxidizer.
  • the fuel may be any liquid or gas type of fuel. If it is a gas, the fuel may be natural gas, mine gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, refinery gas or syngas. If it is liquid, the fuel can be selected from home-heating oil, heavy fuel oil, asphalt, refinery residue, crude oil.
  • the method may concern the combustion of a plurality of fuel types, for example natural gas and liquid fuel oil. These various types of fuels are injected in such a way as to form a flame with the oxidizer.
  • the injections of the fuel or fuels and the oxidizer can be made in any manner known to a person skilled in the art in order to produce a flame.
  • a mainly inert gas is also injected.
  • “mainly inert gas” means a gas or a gas mixture of which the molar composition comprises at least 50% oxygen.
  • the mainly inert gas comprises at least one of the following compounds: CO 2 , N 2 , H 2 O, Ar, preferably in a molar quantity of at least 50%.
  • the type of mainly inert gas may be identical or different to that of the oxidizer according to whether the operating mode of the method is with air combustion or with oxycombustion. Regardless of the operating mode, the mainly inert gas is injected in the form of two jets.
  • the first jet surrounds the flame created by the fuel and the oxidizer
  • the second jet surrounds the said first jet of mainly inert gas.
  • the second jet also surrounds the flame created by the fuel and the oxidizer, but is located at a greater distance from the flame than the second jet of mainly inert gas; in the application, mention is made of the first jet of mainly inert gas as the inner peripheral jet, and mention is made of the second jet of mainly inert gas as the outer peripheral jet.
  • “surround” means the fact that these jets of mainly inert gas encircle the central flame of the fuel and the oxidizer.
  • the jets of mainly inert gas have the shape of rings centred on the flame of fuel and oxidizer.
  • the inner peripheral jet has a divergent swirl with regard to the flame of fuel and oxidizer.
  • swirl of a jet means a swirl movement of the jet about itself.
  • the inner peripheral jet is therefore a jet swirling about itself. Since the said jet surrounds the flame of fuel and oxidizer, the said inner peripheral jet is also swirling about the said flame.
  • this swirl is divergent, that is, in the inner peripheral jet, the mainly inert gas moves away from the flame of fuel and oxidizer as it is injected.
  • the outer peripheral jet has a convergent swirl with regard to the flame of fuel and oxidizer. Like the inner peripheral jet, the outer peripheral jet is also swirling about the said flame. According to the invention, this swirl is convergent, that is, in the outer peripheral jet, the mainly inert gas moves away from the flame of fuel and oxidizer as it is injected.
  • the swirl rate of each of these jets of mainly inert gas is advantageously between 0.26 and 1.73.
  • the method according to the invention serves to control the length of the flame by modifying the ratio of the flow rate of the peripheral jet to the flow rate of the inner jet.
  • the method according to the invention can be implemented both for an oxycombustion method and for an air combustion method.
  • a first embodiment of the method it concerns an oxycombustion, which means that one of the two oxidizers is an oxygen-containing gas.
  • oxygen-containing gas means a gas having an oxygen concentration above 80%, preferably above 90%.
  • the oxidizer is an oxygen-containing gas and the mainly inert gas is composed of the flue gases from a combustion.
  • the flue gases from a combustion generally comprise mainly, if not exclusively, CO 2 . These gases may also comprise H 2 O.
  • the mainly inert gas consists at least partly of the gases issuing from the combustion of the present method and which are recycled during the combustion method.
  • the flue gases are recycled outside the combustion chamber in which the present method is implemented. They may be treated before being recycled.
  • at least 4 Sm 3 of flue gases are recycled during the method according to the invention.
  • the flow rate of mainly inert gas injected into the first jet of mainly inert gas it is preferable for the flow rate of mainly inert gas injected into the first jet of mainly inert gas to account for 50 to 97% of the total flow rate of mainly inert gas injected. This distribution of the mainly inert gas between the inner and outer peripheral jets serves to avoid the rise of hot gases in the combustion chamber.
  • gases issuing from a combustion injected in the form of inner and outer peripheral jets do not disturb the flame issuing from the combustion of the fuel and of the oxygen-containing gas, but create a corridor close to the nose of the burner which protects the walls of the combustion chamber from excessively intense radiation.
  • the gases issuing from a combustion and injected in the form of inner and outer peripheral jets and the hot gases issuing from the actual combustion of the method are mixed to form only one uniform mixture.
  • gases issuing from a combustion may also be injected into at least one point of the combustion chamber that is different from the injection points of the inner and outer peripheral jets.
  • the method is an air combustion method, which means that the two oxidizers are air (or none of the oxidizers is an oxygen-containing gas).
  • the oxidizer is air and the mainly inert gas is also air.
  • deoiled air is used, because this air flows in injection means which may also serve for injecting an oxygen-containing gas in oxycombustion mode; the said injection means must therefore not comprise fatty matter in case of injection of oxygen-containing gas.
  • the flow rate of air injected as oxidizer accounts for 5 to 30% of the total flow rate of air injected into the method.
  • the flow rate of air injected into the first jet of mainly inert gas may account for 4 to 25% of the total flow rate of air injected into the method.
  • the total flow rate of air injected into the method may correspond to the quantity of air necessary for the combustion of the fuel. This distribution of the air flow rate in the inner and outer peripheral jets serves to make the air converge towards the fuel in such a way as to connect the flame to the burner nose and to shorten it so as to prevent the overheating of the walls of the combustion chamber.
  • the oxidizer is an oxygen-containing gas and the mainly inert gas is air.
  • This third embodiment is particularly used for the startup of the combustion method.
  • the invention also relates to a burner comprising:
  • the burner according to the invention therefore comprises a first central part comprising at least one means for injecting fuel and at least one means for injecting oxidizer.
  • These two injection means must be positioned with regard to one another in such a way that the oxidizer and fuel are capable of producing a flame when the burner operates.
  • the means for injecting fuel and oxidizer may be coaxial tubes or separate tubes. Any known technique for injecting fuel and oxidizer in order to form a flame can be used.
  • the burner comprises a second peripheral part consisting of the two means for injecting mainly inert gas.
  • the two parts of the burner may be adjacent, or separated by a partition.
  • the means suitable for convergently swirling the flows of mainly inert gas passing through the first injection means or the second injection means causes the said flows to swirl with a swirl rate of between 0.26 and 1.73.
  • the said means suitable for divergent or convergent swirling is generally a deflector.
  • the burner is such that:
  • the burner may also comprise two means for injecting oxidizer, the said means being coaxial tubes, and the means for injecting fuel may be a metal ring drilled with at least one ring of orifices, the said metal ring being coaxial with the oxidizer injection tubes and placed between the said tubes.
  • the burner is then composed of four coaxial tubes and the metal ring drilled with orifices arranged in a ring, the said ring being placed between the smallest tube and the tube having the immediately larger diameter.
  • the burner may comprise two distinct means for injecting fuel for the injection of two different fuels.
  • the invention also relates to a method for converting an air-fuel burner comprising at least one means for injecting fuel and at least one means for injecting air, the said means being positioned with regard to one another in such a way that the air and the first fuel are capable of producing a flame, into an oxygen-fuel burner.
  • the said conversion method consists in supplementing the said burner by two means for injecting oxidizer:
  • the conversion consists in adding to the air-fuel burner two means for injecting oxidizer.
  • These injection means must be positioned in such a way as to permit the injection of a first jet of oxidizer in a form surrounding the air-fuel burner and the injection of a second jet of oxidizer in a form surrounding the first jet of oxidizer and therefore the air-fuel burner.
  • these two injection means must be equipped with means for actuating them with a swirl movement: the jet closest to the flame having a divergent swirl and the second a convergent swirl.
  • the invention also relates to a method for converting a method of air combustion of a fuel in which the fuel and the air are injected in such a way as to create a flame, into an oxycombustion method, in which:
  • the first jet which is the closest to the oxygen-fuel flame, must have a divergent swirl effect with regard to the flame created by the fuel and the oxygen-containing gas and the second jet, which is the closest to the oxygen-fuel flame, must have a convergent swirl effect with regard to the flame created by the fuel and the oxygen-containing gas.
  • FIG. 1 shows the end of a burner according to the invention. It comprises a first central part consisting of:
  • the burner also comprises a second part which is a means for injecting mainly inert gas; it comprises three coaxial tubes 22 , 31 , 32 centred on the first central part, the smallest tube corresponding to the tube 22 for injecting fuel 1 .
  • the space between the largest tube 32 and the intermediate tube 31 comprises means 4 (fins) suitable for divergently swirling the flow of mainly inert gas passing through it.
  • the space between the intermediate tube 31 and the smallest tube 22 comprises means 5 (fins) suitable for convergently swirling the flow of mainly inert gas passing through it.
  • One advantage of the invention is that it serves to modify a burner normally operating with air in such a way that it operates with an oxygen-containing gas and oxygen-containing flue gases. It suffices to supplement the air burner corresponding to the first part of the burner according to the invention with the second part of the burner according to the invention suitable for injecting the recycled flue gases. The oxygen-containing gas is then injected into the first part of the burner and the flue gases are injected into the second part.
  • One advantage of the burner according to the invention is that it can operate with air exclusively as oxidizer while preserving the flow of fuel used for oxycombustion. This all-air operating necessity may be required for continuing production in situations in which the oxygen supply to the burner is interrupted.
  • One advantage of the burner and of the combustion method according to the invention is that they produce a flame having a controlled size, which is useful in confined vessels, such as boiler combustion chambers in which the direct contact of the excessively long flame with bare steel tubes is fatal.
  • the geometry of the flame produced by the burner according to the invention allows a uniform distribution of the heat flux on all the inner surfaces of the boiler; a boiler equipped with this burner operating in oxycombustion can withstand an energy density of up to 0.600 MW/m 3 depending on the proportion of flue gas recycled.
  • a further advantage of the burner and of the combustion method according to the invention operating with an oxygen-containing gas is that they produce a flame having a high core temperature, whereby the unburnts are significantly decreased.

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