Furnaces – Including fluid fuel burner – Powdered solid fuel
Patent
1994-12-22
1996-08-20
Denion, Thomas E.
Furnaces
Including fluid fuel burner
Powdered solid fuel
110264, 110347, F23C 110
Patent
active
055468748
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for reducing the formation of nitrogen oxides during combustion in a roof-fired furnace is disclosed. By blocking at least some of the fuel nozzles associated with a roof-fired burner while leaving open the secondary air openings associated with the blocked fuel nozzles, reduction in NOX emissions from roof-fired furnaces is accomplished. This blocking results in the creation of a localized fuel-rich or just slightly fuel-lean environment near open fuel nozzles because part of the secondary air needed for combustion is being added at a location distant from where the initial combustion occurs. By creating a localized fuel-rich or slightly fuel-lean environment near the open fuel nozzles, the initial stages of combustion occur with little or no excess oxygen present. Because much of the fuel-bound nitrogen is liberated during the initial stages of combustion, it will preferentially react to form molecular nitrogen rather than nitrogen oxides because of the lack of available oxygen. Further, by the time all the secondary air is mixed with the pulverized coal to complete substantially the combustion, the flame temperature will have been sufficiently lowered by heat transfer to the boiler tubes that thermal formation of nitrogen oxides will be reduced. This invention works well in those roof-fired furnaces where individual burners are composed of multiple fuel nozzles and the fuel nozzles eject primary air and fuel between boiler tubes which form the furnace roof.
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Bionda, Jr. John P.
Breen Bernard P.
Gabrielson James E.
Glickert Roger W.
Hallo Anthony
Cox John N.
Denion Thomas E.
Duquesne Light Company
Energy Systems Associates
Schermer Leland P.
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