USRE37192E1 - Energy absorbing tube support for furnace - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
- F22B37/00—Component parts or details of steam boilers
- F22B37/02—Component parts or details of steam boilers applicable to more than one kind or type of steam boiler
- F22B37/10—Water tubes; Accessories therefor
- F22B37/20—Supporting arrangements, e.g. for securing water-tube sets
- F22B37/201—Suspension and securing arrangements for walls built-up from tubes
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- the invention is generally related to industrial furnaces and particularly to the floor tube supports in such furnaces.
- heat exchange tubes which form the walls and floor carry a liquid that serves as a heat exchange medium.
- the tubes must be protected from cracking or crushing in order to operate efficiently. Slag particles carried in the hot furnace gases collect on the exposed surfaces in the upper furnace and, eventually, fall onto the floor tubes of the furnace. Even though furnace floors generally are sloped to shed slag and other deposits, the impact and weight of the slag has damaged or crushed the floor tubes in certain furnaces.
- Such furnaces have the problem of having rigid mountings for the floor tubes that force the tubes to absorb the impact and weight of the slag. This leads to support truss and tube damage, reduced operating efficiency, and the need for outages to make repairs and install new materials which also will be subject to damage. This results in a need in such furnaces for floor tube mountings that will prevent damage to the floor tubes and support trusses by absorbing the impact and weight of falling slag and that are replaceable at less cost than that of the heat exchange tubes.
- the invention addresses the above need. What is provided is a deformable and replaceable energy absorbing structure between the furnace floor tubes and the floor tube supporting truss. When necessary to provide for greater distribution of the load over the supporting structure, additional vertical trusses may be added and the number of contact points between the vertical trusses and tube panels may be increased.
- a beam such as an I-beam, extends from the supporting structure and is adapted to hold a deformable structure.
- a tie bar attached to the floor tube panel extends across the panel and rests upon the deformable structure. This arrangement is provided at as many contact points between the floor tube panel and support structure as necessary to support the dead weight of the tubes while still providing suitable energy absorption characteristics.
- FIG. 1 is a sectional view of one side of the interior of a furnace.
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the area indicated in FIG. 1 by the numeral 10 .
- FIG. 3 is a view taken along lines 3 — 3 in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 1 is a sectional side view illustrating the interior of one side of a furnace.
- Heat exchange tubes 2 are supported at an angle by floor support truss 4 such that heat exchange tubes 2 extend downward generally toward the center of the furnace. Only one side of the furnace and heat exchange tubes contained therein are shown for ease of illustration.
- the invention is generally indicated by the numeral 10 in FIG. 1 and is illustrated in an enlarged view in FIG. 2 .
- Deformable energy absorbing structure 10 has an I-beam 12 attached at various points to floor support truss 4 to distribute the load over the truss structure.
- I-beam 12 has support lugs 14 attached across its width and extending upward to define a channel sized to receive stand-off 16 best seen in FIG. 3 .
- Stand-off 16 absorbs the impact and weight of falling slag by deforming or crushing at an energy level less than that required to damage heat exchange tubes 2 .
- Stand-off 16 is formed in the preferred embodiment from three and one-half inch schedule forty pipe.
- a tie bar support lug 18 is attached to two adjacent heat exchange tubes 2 and a second tie bar support lug 18 is spaced along the length of tubes 2 such that tie bar 20 may be fit between the support lugs 14 .
- a pin 22 placed through tie bar support lugs 18 and under tie bar 20 serves to hold tie bar 20 in position against tubes 2 such that tie bar 20 rests upon stand-off 16 .
- Tie bar support lugs 18 and pins 22 are spaced apart at suitable intervals across tubes 2 to provide the necessary supporting contact to tubes 2 . In this manner, several tie bars spaced apart under tubes 2 contact a number of stand-offs 16 and distribute the weight of tubes 2 across the tie bars. This prevents small contact points on one or two tubes which would damage the tubes. The number of contact points and trusses required will depend on the size of the furnace and the number of floor tubes involved.
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US4917172A (en) * | 1987-04-21 | 1990-04-17 | Framatome | Process for the antivibratory wedging of component parts of an installation, and in particular a process for wedging the tubes of a steam generator |
US5136985A (en) * | 1991-09-12 | 1992-08-11 | Deltak Corporation | Boiler tube support |
US5207184A (en) * | 1992-04-03 | 1993-05-04 | The Babcock & Wilcox Company | Boiler buckstay system for membranded tube wall end connection |
US5282442A (en) * | 1992-12-29 | 1994-02-01 | Combustion Engineering, Inc. | Spiral tube wall furnace seismic/wind tube stop |
US5449037A (en) * | 1993-12-08 | 1995-09-12 | Brown Fintube Corporation | Heat exchanger tube spacer, separator, and support |
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US4917172A (en) * | 1987-04-21 | 1990-04-17 | Framatome | Process for the antivibratory wedging of component parts of an installation, and in particular a process for wedging the tubes of a steam generator |
US5136985A (en) * | 1991-09-12 | 1992-08-11 | Deltak Corporation | Boiler tube support |
US5207184A (en) * | 1992-04-03 | 1993-05-04 | The Babcock & Wilcox Company | Boiler buckstay system for membranded tube wall end connection |
US5282442A (en) * | 1992-12-29 | 1994-02-01 | Combustion Engineering, Inc. | Spiral tube wall furnace seismic/wind tube stop |
US5449037A (en) * | 1993-12-08 | 1995-09-12 | Brown Fintube Corporation | Heat exchanger tube spacer, separator, and support |
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