WO2008034266A1 - Flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process - Google Patents

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WO2008034266A1
WO2008034266A1 PCT/CH2006/000508 CH2006000508W WO2008034266A1 WO 2008034266 A1 WO2008034266 A1 WO 2008034266A1 CH 2006000508 W CH2006000508 W CH 2006000508W WO 2008034266 A1 WO2008034266 A1 WO 2008034266A1
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Lorenzo Galfrascoli
Dacfey Dzung
Matteo Venturino
Olivier Steiger
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Abb Research Ltd
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Priority to PCT/CH2006/000508 priority patent/WO2008034266A1/en
Priority to CN2006800558581A priority patent/CN101512227B/en
Priority to EP06775201A priority patent/EP2064491B1/en
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Priority to US12/403,118 priority patent/US8274560B2/en

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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N5/00—Systems for controlling combustion
    • F23N5/02—Systems for controlling combustion using devices responsive to thermal changes or to thermal expansion of a medium
    • F23N5/08—Systems for controlling combustion using devices responsive to thermal changes or to thermal expansion of a medium using light-sensitive elements
    • F23N5/082—Systems for controlling combustion using devices responsive to thermal changes or to thermal expansion of a medium using light-sensitive elements using electronic means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N2229/00—Flame sensors
    • F23N2229/06—Flame sensors with periodical shutters; Modulation signals
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N2229/00—Flame sensors
    • F23N2229/18—Flame sensor cooling means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N2229/00—Flame sensors
    • F23N2229/20—Camera viewing
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N2900/00—Special features of, or arrangements for controlling combustion
    • F23N2900/05005—Mounting arrangements for sensing, detecting or measuring devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23N—REGULATING OR CONTROLLING COMBUSTION
    • F23N5/00—Systems for controlling combustion
    • F23N5/02—Systems for controlling combustion using devices responsive to thermal changes or to thermal expansion of a medium
    • F23N5/08—Systems for controlling combustion using devices responsive to thermal changes or to thermal expansion of a medium using light-sensitive elements

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  • Flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process
  • the invention relates to a flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process.
  • the expression "monitoring a flame” shall be understood as “monitoring at least one flame”, the flame detector according to the invention may also be used for monitoring several flames simultaneously.
  • Flame detectors or flame scanners are devices which are used to determine the state of burners in industrial and utility furnaces. Such furnaces can be, for example, steam boilers, water heaters, or gas-, oil- or coal-fired furnaces. Flame detectors monitor one or sev- eral flames inside a furnace. In a conventional flame detector phototubes or photodiodes are used to detect the total light intensity of the flame which is received via some focussing optics.
  • Figure 1 depicts a state-of-the-art flame de- tector 1 that is mounted on a burner 2.
  • the burner 2 has a tapered burner nozzle 3 with vanes 4 on its outside.
  • Fuel (black arrow) and air (white arrow) are led though or alongside the burner 2 into a non-depicted furnace.
  • One version of a known flame detector 1 consists of a carrier tube 5 and a photo element in form of a photodi- ode 6 that is mounted at a front end of the carrier tube 5.
  • the front end of the carrier tube 5 is located at the aperture of the burner nozzle 3 which is directed toward the inside of the furnace i.e. toward the combustion chamber.
  • the tube also carries cooling air to the photo- diode 6 and includes cables for the power supply of the photo element 6 and for transmitting the data signals recorded by the photodiode 6.
  • Another known flame detector 1 comprises at the front end of the tube 5 instead of a photodiode a lens 7 that focuses the light of the flame inside the furnace onto a fiber optic cable that. is located inside the carrier tube 5.
  • a photo element is located at the rear end of the carrier tube 5 in a separate casing. The photo element receives the light from the flame via the lens 7 and the fiber optic cable.
  • the cas- ing of the photo element is mounted at the outside of the furnace where ambient temperatures prevail.
  • a signal conditioning unit is provided inside the casing of the photo element. From the signal conditioning unit the data signals are transmitted via wires to flame detection modules and further to a burner/boiler management system (BMS) .
  • BMS burner/boiler management system
  • Phototubes comprising a tube and a photo element, in particular a photodiode, or a lens mounted at the front end of the tube may, however, require a precise line-of-sight for flame evaluation.
  • a photo element in particular a photodiode, or a lens mounted at the front end of the tube
  • a precise line-of-sight for flame evaluation.
  • a device for measuring the temperature of a flame, in particular a flame inside a combustion chamber of a gas tur- bine comprises an optical sensor fiber that is directed toward the flame and connected to a spectrograph for analyzing the spectral composition of the flame image.
  • Feasible flame detectors have, furthermore, to be constructed such that they can withstand high temperatures, flame temperatures usually being around 1500 0 C and the wall temperatures of the furnace walls usually being around several hundred degrees Celsius.
  • a flame de- tector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process comprises a camera and a carrier tube,wherein the camera is arranged at the front end of the carrier tube such that an optical access of the camera is directed toward the flame when the front end of the car- rier tube is mounted in the vicinity of a burner nozzle aperture.
  • the burner nozzle aperture is defined as, that aperture of the burner nozzle that is directed toward a flame inside the furnace.
  • the optical access of a camera preferably comprises optics in the form of one or several lenses.
  • a flame detector according to the invention can be easily implemented into a furnace or a burner, respectively, by re-using the carrier tube of a flame detector according to the state of the art (confer Figure 1) and exchanging the photodiode or lens at the front end of the carrier tube with such a camera.
  • This facilitates the retrofit and replacement of conventional flame detectors by image-based flame detectors with cameras that provide improved performance.
  • the known mounting procedure with the carrier tubes can be easily applied to the flame detector according to the invention that comprises a camera.
  • each photodiode/lens of a conventional flame detector is replaced by a camera leading to a flame detector according to the invention.
  • the carrier tube is constructed such that it can carry a cooling medium to the camera, the cooling medium prefera- bly being cooling air.
  • the provision of cooling medium is preferentially such that the camera and, where appropriate, integrated imaging electronics or electronic circuits can be kept at a temperature below 100 0 C. This allows the camera and the imaging electronics to operate reliably.
  • the carrier tube provides for a power supply for the camera.
  • the carrier tube preferably includes one or several data cables for transmitting data recorded by the camera to a rear end of the carrier tube.
  • data cables copper wires or optical fibers that are usually employed for telecommunication applications can be used.
  • the tube is flexible, in particular mechanically flexible, so that it can be connected to a tilting burner nozzle whose tilt is adjustable in order to control furnace/boiler conditions during the combustion process.
  • the connection between the carrier tube and the burner nozzle can be accomplished by welding the front end of the carrier tube to the burner nozzle, in particular to the burner nozzle aperture.
  • the imaging electronics or electronic cir- cuits for processing the data output of the camera are preferably integrated with the camera at the front end of the carrier tube.
  • Processed data e.g. comprising compressed images of a flame
  • Processed data are then transmitted over a the data cable to the rear end of the carrier tube and may be transmitted further to a burner/boiler management system without requiring any further intervening signal processing unit, therefore rendering flame monitoring rather cost-efficient.
  • non-processed data output from the camera is transmitted over a data cable, preferably a high capacity data link, through the carrier tube to a signal processing unit for processing, the signal processing unit being preferably mounted at the outside of the furnace.
  • Imaging electronics form part of the signal processing unit. This allows the implementation of signal processing units with high complexity image processing systems as there are less space and temperature constraints .
  • Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a burner with a flame detector according to the state of the art arranged at the burner
  • Figure 2 depicts a schematic diagram of a burner with a flame detector according to the invention.
  • Figure 1 shows a burner with a flame detector 1 according to the state of the art and has been de- scribed above.
  • FIG 2 displays a burner 2 which may have the same configuration as the burner depicted in Figure 1.
  • the burner 2 comprises a burner nozzle 3 with the burner nozzle aperture being directed at the inside of a furnace 8.
  • the burner 2 comprises conduits 10 for delivering fuel and air into the furnace 8.
  • a flame detector 11 is assigned to the burner 2.
  • the flame detector 11 comprises a camera 12 and a carrier tube 13.
  • the camera 12 is mounted a front end 14 of the carrier tube 13 and is directed at the inside of the furnace 8, that is the camera 12 is directed at a flame 9.
  • the front end 14 of the carrier tube 12 is mounted in the vicinity of the burner nozzle aperture, the aperture being toward the inside of the furnace 8.
  • the front end 14 of the carrier tube 13 is mounted at the burner nozzle, .in particular at the burner nozzle aperture .
  • the carrier tube 13 provides for a power supply for the camera 12 and carries cooling air 15 towards the camera 12. Furthermore, the carrier tube 13 includes a data cable 16 for transmitting data recorded by the camera 12 toward a signal processing unit 17 from which the processed data can be further transmitted via a data cable 18 toward a non-depicted burner/boiler management system.
  • the carrier tube 13 can comprise several branches, cooling air 15 being transmitted through one branch and data from the camera being transmitted through another branch for example .
  • the camera 12 may be provided with a non- depicted shutter in front of the camera 12 i.e. in front of a camera lens or camera optics, respectively, for performing a self-check, in particular a periodic self- check.
  • a pneumatic mechanism is preferentially arranged for.
  • the camera 12 comprises non-displayed optics for forming an image of the flame 9.
  • the optics includes a lens to cover the desired field of view.
  • the optics can comprise several lenses.
  • the op- tics preferably contains image splitters and/or wavelengths filters for obtaining flame images at different predetermined optical wavelengths.
  • the image splitters can be in the form of. lenses that are arranged side by side.
  • a wavelength filter is preferentially assigned to each image splitter, the wavelength filters also being arranged side by side.
  • the wavelength filters can, for example, comprise a UV-band filter passing ultraviolet light and blocking visible infrared light, a VIS-band filter passing visible light and blocking ultraviolet and infrared light, and an IR-band filter passing infrared light and blocking visible and ultraviolet light.
  • the camera 12 preferably outputs grey level images for each of the selected wavelength at a pre-defined frame rate.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a flame detector for monitoring a flame (9) during a combustion process, comprising a camera (12) and a carrier tube (11), wherein the camera (12) is arranged at a front end (14) of the carrier tube (11) such that an optical access of the camera (12) is directed toward the flame (9) when the front end (14) of the carrier tube (11) is mounted in the vicinity of a burner nozzle aperture (3).

Description

Flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process
DESCRIPTION
Technical field
The invention relates to a flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process. The expression "monitoring a flame" shall be understood as "monitoring at least one flame", the flame detector according to the invention may also be used for monitoring several flames simultaneously.
Background
Flame detectors or flame scanners are devices which are used to determine the state of burners in industrial and utility furnaces. Such furnaces can be, for example, steam boilers, water heaters, or gas-, oil- or coal-fired furnaces. Flame detectors monitor one or sev- eral flames inside a furnace. In a conventional flame detector phototubes or photodiodes are used to detect the total light intensity of the flame which is received via some focussing optics.
Figure 1 depicts a state-of-the-art flame de- tector 1 that is mounted on a burner 2. The burner 2 has a tapered burner nozzle 3 with vanes 4 on its outside. Fuel (black arrow) and air (white arrow) are led though or alongside the burner 2 into a non-depicted furnace. One version of a known flame detector 1 consists of a carrier tube 5 and a photo element in form of a photodi- ode 6 that is mounted at a front end of the carrier tube 5. The front end of the carrier tube 5 is located at the aperture of the burner nozzle 3 which is directed toward the inside of the furnace i.e. toward the combustion chamber. The tube also carries cooling air to the photo- diode 6 and includes cables for the power supply of the photo element 6 and for transmitting the data signals recorded by the photodiode 6.
Another known flame detector 1 comprises at the front end of the tube 5 instead of a photodiode a lens 7 that focuses the light of the flame inside the furnace onto a fiber optic cable that. is located inside the carrier tube 5. In this case, a photo element is located at the rear end of the carrier tube 5 in a separate casing. The photo element receives the light from the flame via the lens 7 and the fiber optic cable. The cas- ing of the photo element is mounted at the outside of the furnace where ambient temperatures prevail. A signal conditioning unit is provided inside the casing of the photo element. From the signal conditioning unit the data signals are transmitted via wires to flame detection modules and further to a burner/boiler management system (BMS) .
Phototubes comprising a tube and a photo element, in particular a photodiode, or a lens mounted at the front end of the tube may, however, require a precise line-of-sight for flame evaluation. ' From patent application US 2005/0266363 Al it is also known to collect and transmit light from several flames by use of optical fibers, to insect the collected light by a video camera vision system at the other end of the optical fibers and to transmit the "life" images of the glows of the flames as well as the λλon/off" status of the burners to a control room.
From patent application DE 196 32 174 Al a device for measuring the temperature of a flame, in particular a flame inside a combustion chamber of a gas tur- bine, is known that comprises an optical sensor fiber that is directed toward the flame and connected to a spectrograph for analyzing the spectral composition of the flame image.
From patent documents EP 0 616 200 Bl and US 2001/0014436 Al it is known to employ cameras or other scanning devices for monitoring flames in furnaces. According to the patent document US 5,249,954 A a camera is mounted at the rear end of a sight tube which extends through a windbox into the furnace. Hence, the camera views the flame through the sight tube. Soot from the flame may, however, cover the front end of the sight tube or an observation window behind which the camera is positioned which may lead to degradation of the flame detection capability of the camera.
Feasible flame detectors have, furthermore, to be constructed such that they can withstand high temperatures, flame temperatures usually being around 15000C and the wall temperatures of the furnace walls usually being around several hundred degrees Celsius.
Summary of the invention
It is an object of the invention to provide a flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process by which the above-mentioned problems can be avoided.
In order to implement this object and still further objects of the invention, which will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, a flame de- tector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process is provided that comprises a camera and a carrier tube,wherein the camera is arranged at the front end of the carrier tube such that an optical access of the camera is directed toward the flame when the front end of the car- rier tube is mounted in the vicinity of a burner nozzle aperture. The burner nozzle aperture is defined as, that aperture of the burner nozzle that is directed toward a flame inside the furnace. The optical access of a camera preferably comprises optics in the form of one or several lenses.
By using a camera, in particular a CCD- (charge-coupled-device) or a CMOS (complementary- symmetry-metal-oxide-semiconductor) camera or any other type of electronic camera, flame images with a wide field of view can be provided. A flame detector according to the invention can be easily implemented into a furnace or a burner, respectively, by re-using the carrier tube of a flame detector according to the state of the art (confer Figure 1) and exchanging the photodiode or lens at the front end of the carrier tube with such a camera. This facilitates the retrofit and replacement of conventional flame detectors by image-based flame detectors with cameras that provide improved performance. The known mounting procedure with the carrier tubes can be easily applied to the flame detector according to the invention that comprises a camera. Preferably, each photodiode/lens of a conventional flame detector is replaced by a camera leading to a flame detector according to the invention.
According to a first aspect of the invention the carrier tube is constructed such that it can carry a cooling medium to the camera, the cooling medium prefera- bly being cooling air. The provision of cooling medium is preferentially such that the camera and, where appropriate, integrated imaging electronics or electronic circuits can be kept at a temperature below 1000C. This allows the camera and the imaging electronics to operate reliably.
According to a further aspect of the invention the carrier tube provides for a power supply for the camera. Furthermore, the carrier tube preferably includes one or several data cables for transmitting data recorded by the camera to a rear end of the carrier tube. As data cables copper wires or optical fibers that are usually employed for telecommunication applications can be used. From the rear end of the carrier tube the data can be further transmitted to one or several signal processing units and/or to a burner/boiler management system by corresponding data cables. According to a further aspect of the invention the tube is flexible, in particular mechanically flexible, so that it can be connected to a tilting burner nozzle whose tilt is adjustable in order to control furnace/boiler conditions during the combustion process. The connection between the carrier tube and the burner nozzle can be accomplished by welding the front end of the carrier tube to the burner nozzle, in particular to the burner nozzle aperture.
The imaging electronics or electronic cir- cuits for processing the data output of the camera are preferably integrated with the camera at the front end of the carrier tube. Processed data (e.g. comprising compressed images of a flame) are then transmitted over a the data cable to the rear end of the carrier tube and may be transmitted further to a burner/boiler management system without requiring any further intervening signal processing unit, therefore rendering flame monitoring rather cost-efficient.
Alternatively, non-processed data output from the camera is transmitted over a data cable, preferably a high capacity data link, through the carrier tube to a signal processing unit for processing, the signal processing unit being preferably mounted at the outside of the furnace. Imaging electronics form part of the signal processing unit. This allows the implementation of signal processing units with high complexity image processing systems as there are less space and temperature constraints . Brief description of the drawings
Further advantageous features and applications of the invention can be found in the dependant claims as well as in the following description of the drawings illustrating the invention. In the drawings like reference signs designate the same or similar parts throughout the several features of which:
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a burner with a flame detector according to the state of the art arranged at the burner, and
Figure 2 depicts a schematic diagram of a burner with a flame detector according to the invention.
Embodiments of the invention
Figure 1 shows a burner with a flame detector 1 according to the state of the art and has been de- scribed above.
Figure 2 displays a burner 2 which may have the same configuration as the burner depicted in Figure 1. The burner 2 comprises a burner nozzle 3 with the burner nozzle aperture being directed at the inside of a furnace 8. During combustion process at least one flame 9 is burning inside the furnace 8. The burner 2 comprises conduits 10 for delivering fuel and air into the furnace 8.
A flame detector 11 is assigned to the burner 2. The flame detector 11 comprises a camera 12 and a carrier tube 13. The camera 12 is mounted a front end 14 of the carrier tube 13 and is directed at the inside of the furnace 8, that is the camera 12 is directed at a flame 9. The front end 14 of the carrier tube 12 is mounted in the vicinity of the burner nozzle aperture, the aperture being toward the inside of the furnace 8. Preferably, the front end 14 of the carrier tube 13 is mounted at the burner nozzle, .in particular at the burner nozzle aperture .
The carrier tube 13 provides for a power supply for the camera 12 and carries cooling air 15 towards the camera 12. Furthermore, the carrier tube 13 includes a data cable 16 for transmitting data recorded by the camera 12 toward a signal processing unit 17 from which the processed data can be further transmitted via a data cable 18 toward a non-depicted burner/boiler management system.
The carrier tube 13 can comprise several branches, cooling air 15 being transmitted through one branch and data from the camera being transmitted through another branch for example . The camera 12 may be provided with a non- depicted shutter in front of the camera 12 i.e. in front of a camera lens or camera optics, respectively, for performing a self-check, in particular a periodic self- check. For opening or closing the shutter a pneumatic mechanism is preferentially arranged for.
The camera 12 comprises non-displayed optics for forming an image of the flame 9. The optics includes a lens to cover the desired field of view. Of course, the optics can comprise several lenses. Furthermore, the op- tics preferably contains image splitters and/or wavelengths filters for obtaining flame images at different predetermined optical wavelengths. The image splitters can be in the form of. lenses that are arranged side by side. A wavelength filter is preferentially assigned to each image splitter, the wavelength filters also being arranged side by side. The wavelength filters can, for example, comprise a UV-band filter passing ultraviolet light and blocking visible infrared light, a VIS-band filter passing visible light and blocking ultraviolet and infrared light, and an IR-band filter passing infrared light and blocking visible and ultraviolet light. The camera 12 preferably outputs grey level images for each of the selected wavelength at a pre-defined frame rate.
It is to be understood that while certain embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described herein, it is not to be limited to the specific embodiments described and shown.
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1: state-of-the-art flame detector
2 : burner
3: burner nozzle
4 : vane
5: carrier tube photodiode lens furnace; combustion chamber flame
10: conduits for air and fuel
11: flame detector according to the invention 12: camera 13: carrier tube
14: front end of the carrier tube 15: cooling air 16: data cable 17: signal processing unit 18: data cable

Claims

1. A flame detector for monitoring a flame (9) during a combustion process, comprising a camera (12) and a carrier tube (11) , characterized in that the camera (12) is arranged at a front end (14) of the carrier tube (11) such that an optical access of the camera (12) is directed toward the flame (9) when the front end (14) of the carrier tube (11) is mounted in the vicinity of a burner nozzle aperture (3) .
2. A flame detector according to claim 1, wherein the carrier tube (11) is constructed such that it can carry a cooling medium (15) to the camera (12) .
3. A flame detector according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the carrier tube (11) provides for a power supply to the camera (12) .
4. A flame detector according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the carrier tube (11) includes a data cable (16) for transmitting data recorded by the camera (12) to a rear end of the carrier tube (11) .
5. A flame detector according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the camera (12) is provided with a shutter.
6. A flame detector according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the carrier tube (11) is flexible so that it can be connected to a tilting burner nozzle (3) .
7. A flame detector according to any of the preceding claims, wherein imaging electronics are integrated with the camera (12) at the front end (14) of the carrier tube (11) .
8. A flame detector according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the camera (12) is a CCD- or a CMOS-earnera.
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AT06775201T ATE458169T1 (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 FLAME DETECTOR FOR MONITORING A FLAME DURING A COMBUSTION PROCESS
DE602006012382T DE602006012382D1 (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 Flame Detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process
ES06775201T ES2341128T3 (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 A CALL DETECTOR TO SUPERVISE A CALL DURING A COMBUSTION PROCESS.
PCT/CH2006/000508 WO2008034266A1 (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 Flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process
CN2006800558581A CN101512227B (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 Flame detector for monitoring flame during combustion process
EP06775201A EP2064491B1 (en) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 Flame detector for monitoring a flame during a combustion process
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