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- the present invention relates in general to a material combustion method and apparatus and particularly to a gasification method and apparatus.
- the present invention is directed to a material combustion method and apparatus and gasification method and apparatus wherein in pyrolysis or volatilization, oxidation of the gaseous products produced in volatilization. and oxidation of the carbonaceous char produced in the volatilization are accomplished in separate locations.
- This method and apparatus provides a system wherein materials. such as solid waste and the like. can be substantially entirely disposed of efficiently and economically.
- This invention enables the efficient utilization of the energy from the waste material.
- a material disposal apparatus is provided with a char combustion chamber, a pyrolyzer chamber positioned above the char combustion chamber for receiving material for combustion and means for conveying char materials produced in the pyrolyzer into the char combustion chamber and for conducting gaseous combustion products from the char combustion chamber into the pyrolyzer.
- the pyrolyzer provides the char for combustion in the combustion chamber and the combustion chamber produces the hot inert gases for pyrolysis of the waste material in the pyrolyzer.
- An additional feature and advantage of this structure lies in the fact that the heavier objects will settle to the bottom of the pyrolyzer chamber where they are subjected to the hottest inert gas introduced therein for pyrolysis.
- the pyrolyzer is constructed in the form of a fluid bed reactor. This construction provides a unique cooperative process for the volatilization of materials while leaving a minute particular char which can then be utilized for generation of the inert gases.
- the char combustion chamber is substantially cylindrical and includes means for introducing combustion gas thereinto substantially tangential to the cylinder walls to create a vortex therein and a throat is provided between thel char combustion chamber and the pyrolyzer chamber.
- char particles can be injected into the char combustion chamber, such as in the, oxidation gas, and retained in the vortex for subjection to substantial oxidation.
- the lower density, high temperature inert gases flow to the center of the vortex and are able to pass through the throat into the pyrolyzer chamber.
- the pyrolyzer is located in a position above a vortex-type char combustor and includes a downwardly directed conical support screen for the particle fluid bed.
- the heavier non-volatilizable materials in the waste being con- 60 sumed will settle to the apex of the conical section where they are subjected to the hottest inert gases conducted into the pyrolyzer. If the materials are non-vaporizable, they will then be melted by the excessive heat of the inert gases and fall through the char combustion chamber axially of the 5 vortex.
- FIG. I is a schematic flow diagram of a waste disposal system and illustrates the operation of several different: aspects of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic elevational view illustrating a gasifier in accordance with the present invention:
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of a waste disposal system utilizing the present invention:
- FIG. 4 is an elevational view, partially in section, of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3;
- FIGS. 5 and 6 are elevational schematic views illustrating alternative gasifler systems utilizable with the present invention.
- the present invention is utilizable for consumption of a variety of materials in a variety of processes. it is particularly adaptable for use in a solid waste disposal system. Therefore, by way of illustrative example, the present invention will be described with reference to use in such a solid waste disposal system.
- the solid waste disposal system utilizes a waste receiving and storage assembly A in accordance with the present invention, a shredding assembly B. a drying assembly C. a compressor-turbine assembly D. a combustion assembly E. and an electric generator assembly F
- the solid wastes are typically received from municipal collection trucks 10 which dump the waste into the receiving and storage assembly A which includes a circular turntable or carousel I1 floating on a pond of water I3 within a hollow cylindrical housing I2 with suspended glass cloth panels 14 permitting truck access to the carousel and with the carousel rotatable to feed the solid wastes W into the shredding assembly B.
- the carousel 11 can be raised and lowered to assist refuse dumping and feeding operations by adjusting the level of pond 13 thereby eliminating the need for a crane and associated high-bay construction in the solid waste storage area.
- a large effective tipping area for the collection trucks I0 is provided by the circular shape of the carousel 11 and the panels I4 screen off the storage area while permitting an inflow of fresh air.
- the solid wastes W are directed by a fixed leveling blade 15 over the carousel 11 into conveyors or a chute 16.
- the turntable elevation and the rotational speed can be controlled automatically or remotely controlled by an operator in the central control room of the waste disposal plant where the operator observes the carousel operation by closed circuit elevision.
- the shredding assembly B all of the solid wastes W are shredded to form a more nearly homogeneous shredded material W, which is easily transported through the remainder of the system by conventional automated devices for materials handling.
- the shredded solid wastes W.- are dried in the drying assembly C to increase the burning rate of waste in the overall system and eliminate the variability in burning rate resulting from widely different moisture contents.
- the heat utilized in the drying assembly C is provided by a heated air stream 18 which obtains its heat from a portion of the exhaust gases 19 from the gas turbine assembly D.
- the compressor-turbine assembly draws at least a portion of its compressor intake air 21 through a filter 22 from the air space above the waste in the receiving and storing, shredding and drying assemblies. A, B, C. respectively, to prevent dust and odors from escaping to the environment.
- the shredded and dried solid waste W is transported via a conduit 23 and fed into the high pressure environment of the combustion chamber assembly B such as by a rotary feeder 24.
- the compressorturbine assembly D compresses the intake air 21 from the other assemblies and from the outside environment for use in the turbine combustors. Some of this compressed air is ducted via conduit 25 to the combustion assembly E to provide oxygen for combustion.
- the shredded dried waste W is 1 if solid waste has a moisture content of 20% and this mois-,
- An optional exhaust heat recovery boiler 38 can be provided in the exhaust line from the gas turbine for utilization of the heat for producing steam for heating. air conditioning, or desalting water.
- the hot exhaust gas is decelerated in an enlarged exhaust plenum and released to the atmosphere from a large area in the roof of the plant.
- the gas turbine cycle for waste collection allows performance of many services to the community besides incineration of solid wastes.
- the capability of the gas turbine compressor can be utilized to draw a powerful vacuum and suck the solid waste through underground pipes and deposit this waste in the carousel for combustion in the disposal system.
- the exhaust heat from the gas turbine can be utilized to produce fresh water daily from saline or brackish water.
- the disposal system can be utilized to incinerate the sewage sludge resultant from sewage systems.
- the combustion of the waste material can be accomplished in cooperation with a combustion chamber such as the combustors of a gas turbine by a gasiflcation method and apparatus as illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2, 5 and 6 taking advantage of the distinctions between these phases.
- each of these phases occurs in a separate location.
- the shredded and dried solid waste material W is first injected via a conduit 50 into a pyrolyzer or pyrolyzing chamber 51 where the first phase pyrolysis or volatilization takes place.
- the combustible gases generated in the pyrolyzing chamber 51 serve as a gaseous fuel for the gas turbine where the gas phase oxidation occurs in the gas turbine combustors 53. Hot inert gases are also injected into the pyrolyzer for pyrolyzation of the solid wastes.
- a char combustion chamber 52 which for the third phase oxidizes the residual solid char coming from the pyrolyzer with air bled from the compressor portion 19 of the gas turbine assembly D.
- the bleed air that is directed into the char combustion chamber 52 from the gas turbine compressor is compressed in a super charger 54 (approximately 5% of the gas turbine flow rate) to account for pressure losses in both the char combustor chamber 52 and the pyrolyzing chamber 51.
- the pyrolyzer 51 includes a fluid bed reactor of inert particles 55 such as sand supported on a downwardly directed conical, porous injector plate 56 apertured at the conical apex.
- This bed of particles 32 is initially heated by an external source (not shown) to an elevated temperature for vaporization of waste material and operation is maintained with the compressed hot gases from the char combustion chamber 52. Abrasion by the fluid bed will rapidly remove char as it is formed on the surface of waste material and this fine char material thus abraded will be carried out of the fluid bed by gases and subsequently separated by particle collectors 36.
- the primary constituent of the organic fraction ofthe solid Waste material is cellulose, the chief component of all wood and plant fibers. and hence of all paper products.
- cellulose the chief component of all wood and plant fibers. and hence of all paper products.
- degradation ofthe cellulose material will occur and eventually all the oxygen and hydrogen. and a substantial part of the carbon, will be driven off leaving a carbonaceous char and non-decombustible ingredients such as metal and glass.
- Most of the carbon driven off is in the form of fine particles produced by the abrading action of the particle bed. Oxidation of this fixed carbon particulate in the pyrolyzer 51 could not be accomplished without burning some ofthe fuel gases. Therefore.
- this char particulate is removed from the pyrolyzer and returned via a conduit 58 to the char combustor Sl where it is burned at near stoichiometric fuel air ratios for generation of the inert gases for the pyrolyzer 51.
- One construction for the char combustor 52 in accordance with the present invention and as illustrated in FIG. 2 is a vortex combustor consisting of a cylindrical housing 57 with a ceramic lining and into which compressor air with entrained fine char particles recovered from the pyrolyzer gases by the particle collectors 36 via conduit 58 is introduced tangentially via a conduit 59 at high velocity such as 300 feet per second causing gases in the combustor chamber 52 to flow in free vortex motion.
- Centrifugal force causes solid particles entrained in the vortex to continue to rotate until consumed or slowed by contact with the walls while the inert gases increase in angular velocity and are removed from the core of the vortex and pass through a re-entrant throat section 61 and the ceramic injector plate 56 into the fluid bed pyrolyzer 51. Since the temperature in the combustor is above 3000F.. the ash and metals are melted and these molten droplets collect on the wall of the chamber. Larger particles stick to the molten ash and are exposed to a relatively high velocity air stream promoting rapid combustion. The liquid ash and metal subsequently drain through a hole 62 in the bottom of the char combustor 52 into a quench tank 63. There the molten residue is suddenly quenched in water resulting in the formation of granular residue which is removed as a water slurry.
- the hot inert gases from the combustor 52 fluidize the particle bed 55 and volatilize combustibles therein.
- Large pieces of solid waste that are not buoyed up by the fluid bed 55 migrate to the apex of the conical injector 56. There. these pieces are continuously exposed to the entering 3000F. gas stream from the combustor 52 and rapidly are either pyrolyzed or melted. lf melted. the molten residue drips directly into the quench tank 63 through the core of the vortex combustor chamber 57.
- the hot gases leaving the fluid bed 32 entrain many ash particles which must be removed such as by the particle collectors 36 before the gases are allowed to enter the turbine. Large particulate matter. if allowed to pass through the turbine. will damage the turbine severely. Gas cleaning by the particle collectors 36 and accomplished for the turbine also satisfies the clean air requirements for exhaust gases.
- the particle collectors can take a number of different forms such as inertial separators. electrostatic precipitators and mat filters.
- the particle collectors 36 schematically illustrated can be a combination of inertial separators followed by electrostatic precipitators. The inertial separators remove all but the smallest particles. and these small particles are removed by the electrostatic precipitators.
- inertial separators use centrifugal force to separate particles from the gas stream and can provide efficiencies of 97.8% and greater for particles as small as l0 microns in diameter. but the efficiency degrades for particles smaller than this size.
- the fine particles which tend to follow the air flow out of inertial separators are least likely to injure the turbine.
- inertial separators are particularly suited for use in the first stage of a two stage separator because they efficiently remove large particles, leaving only the fines for the second stage.
- Electrostatic precipitators directly charge the particles in the gas and subsequently attract them to a surface charged with opposite polarity. Since the forces of separation are applied directly to the particles without disturbing the gas flow, all sizes of particles are collected efficiently; however. the high collection efficiency for the fine particles (5 microns and below) is particularly good. As temperature is increased in an electrostatic precipitator, the electrical characteristics of the hot gas change due to molecular action, and it becomes more difficult to charge the dust particles. Fortunately. increased pressure as utilized in the air chamber of the present invention tends to off-set this characteristic. Mat filters have excellent collection efficiency for both coarse and fine particles and filter material is available made of fine fibers (5 to 7 microns in diameter) of silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide which can be used as filler material up to 2300F.
- the high temperature of the fuel gas going from the pyrolyzer 51 to the gas turbine combustors 53 will assist.
- the gasifier combustion method and apparatus of F IGS. 1 and 2 operates exceptionally well to avoid air pollution.
- S and HCl are removed in the fluid bed pyrolyzer 51 by reaction with basic ash materials such as CaO and MgO.
- Limestone or dolomite can be added to the pyrolyzer bed to aid this reaction. however, in most cases sufficient CaO and MgO already exist in the solid waste ash.
- nitrogen-oxygen compounds will not be generated in the pyrolyzer chamber 51 since practically no oxygen is present.
- Existing gas turbines such as the General Electric G 191 heavy duty industrial gas turbine or the Pratt and Whitney ST4A-8 gas turbine can be utilized.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 Other combustion apparatus besides that illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 can be utilized with the present invention.
- a simple gravity feed gasifier schematically illustrated in FIG. 5 can be utilized. in this construction. solid wastes are introduced at the top of a volatilizing chamber and fed by gravity as they are volatilized and burned to ash, which is removed continuously from the bottom. Air is directed up through the gasifier 70 after being introduced into the ash region and the air velocities are low to preclude agitation of the pyrolyzing products. After passing through the ash, the air reaches the carbon com bustion zone where the carbon is combined with a limited supply of oxygen to form carbon monoxide.
- Water is also introduced and the resultant steam and hot carbon result in the producer gas reaction which yields hydrogen and carbon monoxide and absorbs heat.
- the flow rates of water and air are controlled such that all the carbon is consumed. while assuring that slagging temperatures are not reached.
- the hot gases rising from the carbon combustion zone furnish heat to pyrolyze or volatilize the incoming solid waste. thereby generating the fuel gas which is ducted into the gas turbine combustors for final combustion with the primary air flow coming from the turbine compressor.
- Another combustion method and apparatus is schematically carbon is separated from the initial pyrolysis process.
- Solid wastes are introduced into the upper or volatilizing fluid bed where they are pyrolyzed by hot inert gases coming from the carbon combustion fluid bed. Rapid, uniform pyrolysis is assured by the highly stirred conditions existing in the fluid bed.
- the fuel gas resulting from the pyrolysis passes through particle collectors on its way to the gas turbine combustor.
- the particles collected contain both ash and carbonaceous char generated by the pyrolysis process.
- This char is burned by introducing the particles into the second or carbon combustion fluid bed and fine ash is separated from the second bed affluent by a second set of particle collectors. Ash slagging temperatures are prevented in the carbon bed by limiting the available oxygen and by introducing water or steam.
- While the present invention is ideally suited for combustion of solid waste in a waste disposal plant utilizing a gas turbine. it is ideally suited for operation in combination with a comfural gas turbine whereby the gas turbine can be run with materials such as Bunker C. coal, and other low grade fuels normally unsuitable for burning in a gas turbine.
- a material combustion assembly comprising. in combination. a char combustion chamber, means for directing a combustion gas into said char combustion chamber, a pyrolyzer chamber. means for directing combustibles into said pyrolyzer, means for conveying charred material produced in said pyrolyzer into said combustion chamber and for conducting gaseous combustion products from said char combustion chamber into said pyrolyzer.
- combustion gas directing means includes means for introducing combustion gas substantially tangential to the chamber walls of said char combustion chamber to cause gases in said combustion chamber to flow in a vortex.
- the material combustion assembly in accordance with claim 2 including means for collecting and removing residual incombustible material at the bottom of said char combustion chamber.
- the material combustion assembly in accordance with claim 6 including a porous ceramic plate means positioned between said throat and said fluid material for passing hot inert gas into said pyrolyzer and molten material from said directing a portion of the compressed air from said gas" turbine to said char combustion chamber, a pyrolyzer chamber positioned above said char combustion chamber, means for directing combustibles into said pyrolyzer chamber, means for conveying char produced in said pyrolyzer into said char combustion chamber and for directing gaseous combustion products from said pyrolyzer chamber to the combustion chambers of said gas turbine. and including downwardly directed wall means for passing inert gases from said char combustion chamber into said pyrolyzer chamber and molten material from said pyrolyzer chamber centrally through said char combustion chamber.
- combustion gas directing means includes means for introducing combustion gas substantially tangential to the chamber walls of said char combustion chamber to cause gases in said combustion chamber to flow in a vortex.
- the method of consuming material comprising the steps of compressing air, directing the air to a char combustion zone, burning char in the char combustion zone, directing exhaust inert gas from the char combustion zone to a pyrolyzing zone, volatilizing the material in the pyrolyzing zone, directing char from the pyrolyzing zone to the char combustion zone. directing the exhaust gases from the pyrolyzing zone to a combustion zone. and burning the exhaust gases from the pyrolyzing zone in the combustion Zone.
- the method of claim 10 including the step of removing particulate matter from the exhaust gases from the pyrolyzing zone.
- the method of claim 12 including passing molten incombustibles from the pyrolyzing zone through the center of the vortex.
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