WO1991013292A1 - Plasma heating in closed circulation system - Google Patents
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- WO1991013292A1 WO1991013292A1 PCT/NO1991/000025 NO9100025W WO9113292A1 WO 1991013292 A1 WO1991013292 A1 WO 1991013292A1 NO 9100025 W NO9100025 W NO 9100025W WO 9113292 A1 WO9113292 A1 WO 9113292A1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- F23G5/00—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
- F23G5/006—General arrangement of incineration plant, e.g. flow sheets
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- F23G5/00—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
- F23G5/08—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating
- F23G5/085—High-temperature heating means, e.g. plasma, for partly melting the waste
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- F23G2204/00—Supplementary heating arrangements
- F23G2204/20—Supplementary heating arrangements using electric energy
- F23G2204/201—Plasma
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- This invention relates to the use of a plasma- arch for the heating of gases, liquids and solid materials. More specifically the invention relates to such heating in a closed circulation system.
- the Plasma can be described as the state to which a gaseous phase of any chemical structure arrives when its molecules dissociate themselves and their atoms are polarized.
- the plasma is formed by a mixture of electrical, neutral gas molecules and of molecules which are dissociated into positive ions and negative electrons.
- a visquous state at a temperature of 4000°C or higher.
- the stability of the reactor may be affected, and it may shut down or stop at random.
- the formation of noxes may be reduced or prevented when the gas stream which passes through the reactor consists of steam.
- Such a method may be applicable for special processes, but may otherwise be unsuitable.
- the use of appreciable amounts of steam will be uneconomical and not optimal from an energy consumption point of view.
- Furthermore the presence of appreciable amounts of moisture may intefere with the reactions kinetics in the reaction chamber.
- a special chemical reactor will take care of the reactive part of the system, and a cooler in introduced downstream of the reactor, whereby the loop system will consist of high temperature and low temperature section or circuit.
- Essential for the loop system is that it is operated with a controlled gas atmosphere as well as with regard to gas composi ⁇ tion as with regard to pressure and temperature and typically with a carrier gas as well as a reaction gas.
- the carrier gas may be provided from an external source and continuously be fed into the loop, or being gases produced in the loop reaction zone.
- Fig. 1 shows a flow diagram of a Birkeland- Eide (BE) waste disposal loop
- Fig. 2 illustrates a BE waste disposal loop for the combustion of dioxin waste.
- BE Birkeland- Eide
- the main components of the loop system are a plasma oven 1, a gas blower or compressor 4 and heat exchangers/coolers 3 for the production of steam or hot water and a separate reactor 2.
- the gas loop consists of two main temperature zones. A high temperature zone with a temperature suitable to generate the combustion reaction or the chemcial reaction required f.example 1000-2000°C. A low temperature zone, where the temperature is lowered and limited to the highest temperature suitable for a gas blower, f.example 300-500°C.
- a suitable carrier or circulation gas B is applied for the relevant process. If a special reaction gas is used this is introduced as A.
- nitrous and nitric gases in the plasma oven 1 can be eliminated and avoided by not permitting the presence of 0 2 or N 2 simultanously in the oven.
- air is to be employed as reaction gas
- 0 2 -free circulation gas in the plasma oven 1 is obtained with the introduction of air A between the plasma oven and the reaction chamber and securing that added air is providing stochiometric amounts of oxygen.
- a catalyst 5 of conventional type palladium
- the BE loop system according to Fig. 1 has an outlet for ash E in the reaction chamber and an outlet D for combustion gases which passes through a cooler/condenser 6 with an extra outlet for condensate.
- reaction gases such as 0 2
- the energy balance is maintained because the spent or used electric energy pluss/minus reaction energy are balanced by the continous removal of the same amount of energy from the circuit as thermal energy, i.e. in the form of steam and hot water.
- the mass balance is maintained through the system because the added mass, in the form of gases, liquids or solid materials are led out from the circuit through equivalent amounts of reaction products and lost carrier gases.
- the closed loop system allows the use of expensive carrier gases, as f.ex. H 2 , A and C0 2 .
- the release or losses of such gases may be kept low and sometimes at nearly zero level.
- the intensity of the reaction can easily be controlled through the percentage of reactant gas in the circulating gas.
- the reaction chamber may be constructed according to the type of materials to be processed. For solid waste material f.ex., it will be convenient to employ a rotating oven or a fluidized bed reactor.
- the chemical reaction may take place in C0- current flow in a reaction tube, formed as serpentine with a cyclon at the outlet.
- the sludge consists of inorganic salts and carbon, initially in the form of active carbon. Dioxin is also absorbed in the carbon and the whole mass has a ph of 4 or lower. The total volume of liquid from the purification plant is appr. 360 m 3 /year.
- the combustion was carried out in a BE waste disposal loop system according to Fig. 2.
- the liquid sludge from the tank 9, segrega ⁇ tion avoided by a stirrer was forwarded by a pump 8 and preheated by passing through the heat exchanger 3 into the reaction chamber 2 in the form of a serpentine tube.
- the reaction products were led into the cyclone separator 7, with ash outlet at the bottom, the reaction gases were led through heat exchanger 3 to preheat the liquid sludge, and thereafter through a coiler 10 incorporat ⁇ ing a waste heat boiler system.
- the bleed gas was passed through the cooler/condensator 6 where condensed H 0 and HC1 were drained out and the remaining CO vented to atmosphere.
- a blower or com ⁇ pressor 4 provided in the low temperature part of the loop provided the necessary gas circulation through the system.
- the destruction process was carried out in an atmosphere of 0 2 or air at a temperature of 1500°C or higher.
- the resulting reaction products were C0 , H 2 0, HCL and solid ash (approx. 5% of total weight of waste) and consequently these gases were also utilized as circulation gas in the loop system.
- the reaction chamber was formed as a serpentine tube, ending up in a cyclon for ash particles.
- the ash collected in the cyclon is batchwise removed.
- the gas is recirculated through heat exchanger/cooler and cooled down to 400°C before entering the gas blower 4.
- the energy demand of the BE-heater is approximately 50 kW, which may be split on as 26 kW for the heat of evaporation and 15 kW for superheating to >2000°C. This is total energy requirement without heat recovery. If heat is recovered the energy consump ⁇ tion will be reduced to approx. 25 kW.
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DE69113056T DE69113056T2 (en) | 1990-02-23 | 1991-02-22 | HEATING BY PLASMA IN A CLOSED CIRCUIT SYSTEM. |
BR919106059A BR9106059A (en) | 1990-02-23 | 1991-02-22 | PLASMA REACTION AND HEATING SYSTEM |
EP91903960A EP0551260B1 (en) | 1990-02-23 | 1991-02-22 | Plasma heating in closed circulation system |
FI923785A FI923785A (en) | 1990-02-23 | 1992-08-21 | PLASMAUPPHETTNING I ETT SLUTET CIRKULATIONSSYSTEM |
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NO900861 | 1990-02-23 | ||
NO900861A NO172704C (en) | 1990-02-23 | 1990-02-23 | ARC HEATING AND REACTION SYSTEM |
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BR (1) | BR9106059A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2076630A1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE69113056T2 (en) |
FI (1) | FI923785A (en) |
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US4479443A (en) * | 1982-03-08 | 1984-10-30 | Inge Faldt | Method and apparatus for thermal decomposition of stable compounds |
US4644877A (en) * | 1984-01-23 | 1987-02-24 | Pyroplasma International N.V. | Plasma pyrolysis waste destruction |
US4896614A (en) * | 1988-09-15 | 1990-01-30 | Prabhakar Kulkarni | Method and apparatus for treatment of hazardous waste in absence of oxygen |
GB2226122A (en) * | 1988-12-15 | 1990-06-20 | Tampella Oy Ab | Reducing nitrogen oxide formation during combustion |
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- 1991-02-22 EP EP91903960A patent/EP0551260B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1991-02-22 WO PCT/NO1991/000025 patent/WO1991013292A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 1991-02-22 CA CA002076630A patent/CA2076630A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1991-02-22 BR BR919106059A patent/BR9106059A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1991-02-22 DE DE69113056T patent/DE69113056T2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
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US4479443A (en) * | 1982-03-08 | 1984-10-30 | Inge Faldt | Method and apparatus for thermal decomposition of stable compounds |
US4644877A (en) * | 1984-01-23 | 1987-02-24 | Pyroplasma International N.V. | Plasma pyrolysis waste destruction |
US4896614A (en) * | 1988-09-15 | 1990-01-30 | Prabhakar Kulkarni | Method and apparatus for treatment of hazardous waste in absence of oxygen |
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CA2076630A1 (en) | 1991-08-24 |
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