Furnaces – With exhaust gas treatment means – Means separating particles from exhaust gas
Patent
1986-09-22
1987-10-13
Favor, Edward G.
Furnaces
With exhaust gas treatment means
Means separating particles from exhaust gas
55484, 110245, 122 4D, 406173, F23J 200
Patent
active
046990682
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an apparatus for separating solids from flue gases in a circulating fluidized bed reactor having a horizontal cyclone separator, the gas inlet channel of which is connected to the upper part of the reactor, a return channel for solids to the lower part of the reactor, and a gas outlet channel to a convection part of the reactor.
The object of the invention is to accomplish a separator to be used with circulating fluidized bed reactors with which separator the solids in the flue gases can effectively be separated and a space saving construction accomplished.
The circulating fluidized bed technique has long been applied e.g. in calcinators and is nowadays applied to a growing extent in various reactors, such as boilers and gasifiers. In known applications, the separation of solids from flue gases takes place in an ordinary, in its lower part funnel-shaped cyclone separator, in the cylindrical turbulence chamber of which is disposed a gas outlet pipe that leads the gases upwards, and from which solids are returned to the reactor via a discharge pipe.
In large circulating fluidized bed reactors several separators are usually used which makes the gas channel system complicated and requires several expansion joints.
The present invention provides a solution which avoids the above mentioned problems.
The apparatus according to the invention is mainly characterized in that there is a plurality of parallel turbulence chambers in the horizontal cyclone separator, between the opposite end walls of which are formed gas outlet channels.
In one embodiment of the invention there is a gas outlet in the opposite end walls of the parallel turbulence chambers, i.e. gas is discharged through the both end walls in each turbulence chamber, possibly with the exception of the turbulence chambers at the both ends of the device. For that reason the outlets are small which again makes it possible to diminish the diameter of the turbulence chambers.
Because there are several similar, parts having plane surfaces in the device according to the invention it is easy to manufacture. The solution is also space and material saving.
The invention will be described in detail in the following with reference to the accompanying drawing in which
FIG. 1 shows a vertical section of one embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 2 shows a section along the line A--A in FIG. 1. and
FIG. 3 shows a section along the line B--B in FIG. 1.
The steam boiler shown in the figure comprises a combustion chamber 5 defined by four walls 1-4 formed by tubes that have been welded together in a way known per se. The tubes form heat transfer surfaces of the boiler and they have been connected to the boiler circulation system in a way that has not been described in detail.
A fuel inlet channel 6 is located in the lower part of the combustion chamber. There are also inlet channels 7 and 8 for primary gas and secondary gas respectively.
A horizontal cyclone separator 9 is located on top of the combustion chamber. Beside the combustion chamber is situated a vertical convection part 10 which is defined by tube walls 11-14 and in which heat transfer surfaces 15 additionally have been disposed.
Front and back walls 1, 3 of the combustion chamber and a wall 11 of the convection part parallel with the back wall 3 of the combustion chamber have been used to form the cyclone separator. The front wall 1 of the combustion chamber and the wall 11 of the convection part have been bent towards each other and connected with each other to form a cylindrical upper part 16 of the separator. The back wall 3 of the combustion chamber has been bent towards the front wall to form a ceiling 17 of the combustion chamber and runs then parallelly with the cylindrical part of the front wall so that they form together an inner and outer wall 19, 20 of the gas inlet channel 18 of the separator.
Using the back wall 3 of the combustion chamber and the wall 11 of the convection part two opposite walls 22, 23 of return channels 21 have been formed that connect the separator t
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patent: 3435598 (1969-04-01), Coulter et al.
patent: 3897228 (1975-07-01), Berz
patent: 4165717 (1979-08-01), Reh et al.
A. Ahlstrom Corporation
Favor Edward G.
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