WO1995008514A1 - Vitrification and power generation system - Google Patents
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- WO1995008514A1 WO1995008514A1 PCT/GB1994/002011 GB9402011W WO9508514A1 WO 1995008514 A1 WO1995008514 A1 WO 1995008514A1 GB 9402011 W GB9402011 W GB 9402011W WO 9508514 A1 WO9508514 A1 WO 9508514A1
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
- C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
- C03B5/00—Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture
- C03B5/16—Special features of the melting process; Auxiliary means specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
- C03B5/235—Heating the glass
- C03B5/237—Regenerators or recuperators specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B09—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
- B09C—RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
- B09C1/00—Reclamation of contaminated soil
- B09C1/06—Reclamation of contaminated soil thermally
- B09C1/067—Reclamation of contaminated soil thermally by vitrification
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E20/00—Combustion technologies with mitigation potential
- Y02E20/12—Heat utilisation in combustion or incineration of waste
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
- Y02P40/00—Technologies relating to the processing of minerals
- Y02P40/50—Glass production, e.g. reusing waste heat during processing or shaping
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- the invention relates to a system for vitrification and power generation.
- the invention is applicable with particular advantage to systems which vitrify toxic waste substances and use waste oils as fuel. It is equally applicable to conventional gas furnace operations when the furnace feedstocks do not have their origins as waste.
- a variety of glass-melting furnaces are available and, many of them have been adapted to form glass from a wide range of toxic feedstocks.
- the conditions within the furnace will be varied by varying the amount of fuel gases or oil supplied to the furnace.
- a regenerator comprises two chambers filled with fire bricks one chamber heating the incoming air whihc will be fed to the furnace, and one cooling the hot flue gases leaving the furnace. These chambers are periodically switched over because the passage of the flue gases through the chamber causes the bricks • o heat up.
- the flow through the regenerator is changed such that the gas being input in to the chamber is the combustion air for the furnace which is preheated by the hot bricks. Whilst this is proceeding the second regenerator is being used to remove heat from the output gases from the furnace.
- the passage through the two regenerative chambers is continuously alternated.
- Typical values of the air pre ⁇ heating temperatures are between 1200-1300°C with flue gas temperatures of 1450-1550°C at the top of the regenerator. Even with the air pre-heating temperatures so high the temperatures of the flue gas leaving the regenerator is in the order of 450-600°C. This is equivalent to an energy content in the flue gas of around 25% of the energy input of the fuel. The reason for this is that the ratio of the heat capacity flux at those temperatures to that of the flue gas to the air is above 1.2:1 which limits the efficiency of any regenerator to about 70 or 80%.
- recuperator There are a number of different types of recuperator available.
- One such recuperator is of metallic construction although it is possible to construct one from refractory materials.
- the hot waste gases pass continuously through a flue which contains tubes of metal or refractory. Air is passed continuously through the tubes in a contraflow to the waste gases and is thus preheated.
- Preheats of 650-700°C are the norm with an exit waste gas temperature of 950-1050°C. Therefore it can be seen that this recuperator is not as efficient as a regenerator. Thus they are not widely used for heat recovery in the glass industry.
- One method to utilize this energy is to use it to heat a boiler.
- the boiler can be used to create steam to drive a turbine to proc a power.
- a conventional glass furnace would r ise at best 1.5 MW of power and it is likely that it would prove difficult to use a conventional glass furnace to provide a constant output of power. If this power is to be used efficiently the amount of power produced by the apparatus needs to be constant and predictable.
- a vitrification and power generation apparatus comprising, a glass-forming furnace including inlets for feedstock and inlet for gas including fuel gases or oil and pre ⁇ heated air, and a gas outlet from which furnace flue gases are fed; heat recovery means through which furnace flue gases are fed to reduce their temperature, the heat recovery means also pre-heating the air fed to the furnace; and a boiler coupled to the heat recovery means including a gas inlet through which the furnace flue gases are fed to the boiler, a steam outlet and a gas outlet through which boiler flue gases are fed, the boiler flue gases for feeding to a gas treatment system; in which the boiler flue outlet is coupled to two outlet paths and means for splitting the flow such that one path is for feeding boiler flue gases to a gas treatment system and the second path leads to an inlet of the furnace, to the furnace outlet, or to the boiler inlet, whereby part of the flow of boiler flue gas is re-circulated.
- a method in accordance with the invention comprises the steps of feeding to a glass-forming furnace feedstock, fuel gases or oil and pre-heated air; feeding furnace flue gases from the furnace through heat recovery means, where the temperature of the flue gases are reduced, to a boiler which produces steam and outputs boiler flue gases, the boiler flue gases being fed towards a gas treatment system, whereby part of the flow of boiler flue gases are re ⁇ circulated into the furnace inlet, the furnace outlet or the boiler inlet.
- the boiler flue gas is recirculated to the furnace outlet so that it mixes with the furnace flue gas before it enters the regenerator.
- it may be fed to the furnace flue gas as it leaves the regenerator at the boiler inlet.
- the diversion of some of the flow from the boiler outlet away from the gas treatment feed reduces the amount of gas to be treated.
- a third aspect of the invention combines the first and second aspects of the invention in that the part of the boiler flue gas which is fed away from the glass treatment system is split into two flows one being fed directly into the furnace inlet and the second being fed into the boiler inlet.
- the system can be used with part of the flow leading to the furnace inlet, and part to the boiler inlet at the same time.
- a switching mechanism is included to switch between flow paths. This supplies an efficient system whereby for example a 1000 Tonne of glass can be produced while at the same time producing 36 MW of power and not producing an excessive volume of waste gases.
- the boiler can be either a water tube or fire tube type depending on the size and power of the system.
- the heat recovery means may be a conventional regenerator or recuperator but it is preferred that the regenerator is non-conventional in that the chamber is not packed with the most efficient volume of bricks rather only contains a few bricks so that only a small amount of heat is taken from the flue gases from the furnace. This has the added advantage that the regenerator volume not packed with bricks guarantees that the requirement for the 2 seconds at a temperature above 1200°C for the waste gases is met at all times.
- Figure 1 is a schematic flow diagram illustrating a furnace and boiler in accordance with the prior art
- Figure 2 is a schematic flow diagram of a system in accordance with the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic section through a regenerator for use in the system. Description of the Preferred Embodiment
- FIG. 1 illustrates a furnace and boiler system of conventional type.
- a furnace (1) is a conventional glass- forming furnace which includes an inlet (3) for feedstock and an inlet (5) for gases including fuel gases or oil. When the glass has been formed by the furnace it is fed through glass outlet (7) . Flue gases from the furnace are fed through outlet (9) and then fed via regenerator (25) through to boiler (11) which produces steam through steam outlet (13). Flue gas from the boiler is fed through outlet (15) and this is then fed to gas treatment apparatus (17) shown schematically.
- Air is fed from air supply illustrated schematically as 24 to one of the chambers 25A of regenerator 25 where it is preheated by the bricks within.
- the preheated air then flows to gas inlet 3.
- the furnace flue gases are fed through the outer chamber 25B of the regenerator to heat the bricks. Periodically inputs to chambers 25A and 25B are swapped.
- the feedstock can be a mixture of sand limestone corundum toxic materials and water.
- toxic materials are asbestos, residues from incinerators, mining activities, spent catalysts, filtercake, sludges from rivers, sewage and contaminated soils, oil refinery residues, drilling residues and out of specification chemicals.
- the heat flow into the furnace needs to be 1072GJ.
- the heat lost (A) will be 24GJ and the heat within the glass output will be 218GJ leaving 830GJ within the flue gas. This means that the flue gas from the boiler will be 303GJ.
- FIG 2 illustrates a system in accordance with the invention. Elements in common with the system illustrated in Figure 1 are shown with the same reference numerals since these elements are the same elements. The system has additional elements as illustrated.
- the boiler flue gas outlet (15) is coupled to divergent paths (19) and (21) and means for splitting the flow (20).
- the choice of a suitable switch or valve will be apparent to the skilled addressee of the specification.
- the first path (19) leads directly to gas treatment apparatus (17).
- the second path (21) feeds part of the flow of boiler flue gas to be re-circulated.
- the second path (21) leads to two switches (26, 28) for splitting the flow, and switching the flow between the three paths (27, 29 and 31), one of which (27) leads to a furnace inlet (5), one of which (29) leads to furnace outlet (9), and the other of which (31) leads to boiler inlet (10).
- Air is supplied from air supply (24) via condenser (23) and regenerator (25) to gas inlet (5) of the furnace (1) .
- the steam outlet (13) from the boiler (11) drives turbine (30) to generate power.
- the steam is exhausted through condenser (23) and the condensate is returned to the boiler (11).
- the heat generated by the condensation of the steam in condenser (23) is used to heat the air supply.
- the air is further pre-heated by one of the regenerator chambers (25A).
- the regenerator (25B) gains its heat by the furnace flue gas (9). By re-circulating the boiler flue gas the volume of gas which is to be treated is reduced.
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AU76461/94A AU7646194A (en) | 1993-09-18 | 1994-09-15 | Vitrification and power generation system |
JP7509627A JPH09503738A (en) | 1993-09-18 | 1994-09-15 | Vitrification and power generation system |
BR9407554A BR9407554A (en) | 1993-09-18 | 1994-09-15 | Apparatus and process of glazing and energy storage |
EP94926329A EP0739314A1 (en) | 1993-09-18 | 1994-09-15 | Vitrification and power generation system |
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CA (1) | CA2171427A1 (en) |
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KÖLSCH: "neue rekuperativ beheizte glasschmelzwanne mit abhitzeanlage", GLASTECHNISCHE BERICHTE, vol. 58, no. 9, 1985, FRANKFURT,GERMANY, pages 244 - 250 * |
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