This application claims priority to Korean patent application 10-2004-0071483 filed on Sep. 7, 2004, and international patent application PCT/KR2005/002957 filed on Sep. 7, 2005.
The present invention relates to a boiler furnace to generate electricity.
Conventional boiler furnaces for making electricity have water walls composed of tubes to contain water and members to connect the tubes. The furnace has a rectangular shape composed of four water walls. The water walls are composed of boiler tubes and connecting members. Each corner has a fuel/air nozzle which injects the mixture of fuel and air into the furnace. For a pulverized coal boiler, the nozzle injects fuel and air at a tangential direction to the assumed position of the fire in the furnace. Some boilers employ a super-heating zone above the furnace to absorb the heat and prevent it from going up the chimney. But the intense fire makes thermal NOx due to a temperature that can exceed 1,000° C. The higher the firing temperature, the more thermal NOx is produced.
The present invention has been made in an effort to avoid or minimize thermal NOx emissions. Another object of the present invention is to provide a smaller boiler with high thermal efficiency. The boiler furnace according to the present invention includes outer water walls and spray nozzle to inject fuel and air at each corner of water walls is characterized in supplemental water walls which are placed in the space surrounded by outer water walls and are located in the assumed fire ball location. The small space surrounded by supplemental water walls can be utilized as a useful space, like as pre-heater, economizer. Therefore, the boiler furnace of the present invention avoid fire ball and makes low flame temperature, and avoid producing of thermal NOx and provide more heat transferring to water due to preparing of larger contact surface and can lead to small boiler with higher efficiency. The flames in the furnace are surrounded by outer water walls and are reflected by inner water walls to heat the water in the outer water walls. By reflecting the heat between the walls, the thermal energy of the flame is also transferred to the water in the inner water walls. More heat is transferred to the water walls by shortening the distance from the flame to the outer water walls and by the additional heating of the inner water walls. Thermal NOx is reduced by a fire with a lower flame temperature even though it has maximum combustion efficiency.
The objects to be achieved and the technical problems to be overcome can be solved by the present invention. Eddy blowing nozzles installed at each corner of the furnace spray a fuel-air mixture in a wide pattern near the outer water walls. A flame reflecting structure composed of heat resistant material or a heat resistant water with air holes to inject cooling air protects the inner water walls from the flame are installed at a distance which provides the highest temperature of the reflected flame on the surface of outer water walls. The space between the outer water walls and the inner reflecting structure become a combustion chamber into which fuel and air is injected and makes a fire tunnel which has high temperature and a high density flame and increases the heat transfer to the water walls. The injection angle of the fuel-air mixture from eddy nozzle is tilted from the horizontal to provide tangential access to the center of the flame. The vertical height of the injected fuel-air mixture from the eddy nozzle can be adjusted to control the temperature in the furnace. Cooling air holes of the inner water wall are arranged in a helical distribution with an upward angle causing a spiral-shaped flame motion along the surface of the inner water walls and to pass the super heater zone, economizer, preheater and chimney located above the boiler furnace.
The present invention is explained in more detail in the illustrated examples.
Referring again to
An example of the operation of the present invention is explained as follows. The water tubes are filled with water and the inside of the furnace is heated by igniting oil sprayed from the burner. Pulverized coal is sprayed onto the flame through eddy injection nozzle tips (22). Once the coal-fired flame ignites, the oil burner is shut off. As the coal-fired flame grows, auxiliary air come out of the inner water walls (24) in a helical pattern. The auxiliary air moving upward in a helical pattern from the inner water walls (24) causes the flame from the eddy fuel-air nozzle tip (22) to rotate around the inner water walls and become a fire tunnel between two walls, heating the surface of both water walls and increases the heat transferring effect. Thus, the rapid temperature rise of the water result in more steam evaporation. Here, if the outer water walls are have a polygon shape (
In another embodiment, the outer water walls have a refractory structure which reflects the flame instead of inner water walls. This arrangement also increases the flame density and provides shorter heating distance and result in efficiency rising of boiler.
In still another embodiment, the outer water walls have a grid structure which reflects the flame instead of inner water walls. The grid in this arrangement radiates heat and increases boiler efficiency.
The boiler furnace has been described through specific embodiments, but should not be confined or limited to these examples. A person with ordinary knowledge in the field to which the present invention belongs can use the technical concepts to modify the present invention. Thus, the present invention includes the scope of the following claims and its equivalents.
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