The invention in question refers to a liquid fuel-fired furnace installation, including its functional description. The liquid fuel in form of ecologic alcohol is combusted in the furnace installation, fireplace for example, emitting heat, which is used for compartment heating. Moreover, the furnace installation can be used for decorative purposes in various types of public compartments.
Bio-fireplace furnace installation according to Polish patent application P 385294, in which the furnace installation consists of two basal parts, accumulative container and radiator chamber in form of a tailored in shape cover, is already commonly known. The container is mounted in an additional vessel, whereas its part with the radiator chambers is shape tailored to the container shape with suitably shaped chambers in form of semicircular open vessels in the upper part. The presented furnace installation and its functional description does not satisfy conditions of the newest rigorous regulations with respect to the use of liquid fuel furnace installations, in which the fuel is located near the furnace, being combusted in the open area over the furnace installation. Moreover, the presented furnace installation does not assure a possibility of its cubic capacity increase with respect to the delivered liquid fuel, what can result in a filling frequency reduction, precluding immediate quenching. Commonly known furnace installations are also sensitive to air blasts and they heat up the fuel containers. A number of improvements was introduced in the solution of furnace installation from patent description EP 2028420 A1. However, mode of the liquid fuel combustion is based on the rule that combustion of fluid delivered via pipe into a furnace installation takes place in result of combustion of combustible gases over the furnace installation surface. Such manner of the liquid fuel combustion requires use of complex control systems, including combustion process control. Another disadvantage of this solution is a lack of a possibility of automatic fuel ignition from an electric spark, if the ambient temperature is lower than 15° C., as the phenomenon of suitable fuel evaporation allowing a vapor concentration needed for ignition from the electric is not observed.
The invention presented here is aimed at a construction of the furnace installation eliminating the mentioned disadvantages. Its principle of operation would be based on different rule with respect to liquid fuel combustion manner, whereas the new principle should allow the furnace installation cubic capacity increase in case of disposable amount of delivered fuel, as well as with respect to the installation operational safety.
In case of the new furnace installation, the basic task was realized in such manner that, according to the invention essential features, the installation consists of at least one fuel tank, a fuel evaporation plate, a fuel vapor distribution plate and a fuel flow cut-off valve, whereas the fuel tank is connected via a conduit with the fuel evaporation plate, which is equipped with a vapor outlet connected with a cut-off valve. It is also equipped with an externally mounted heating plate with a fuel light up inlet, whereas the vapor distribution plate is connected to the inlet connector and having holes in an upper part for vapor exhaust.
Moreover, the furnace installation, according to significant invention features, is characterized by a fuel tank equipped with fuel inlet and vent pipe.
In an advantageous option, the furnace installation is equipped with two fuel tanks, positioned in parallel, and connected via a pipe conduit. Evaporation plate and distribution plate are located between the fuel tanks. The main tank located near the fuel inlet used for firing up is equipped with a metering pump, and a firing up trough with a wick located under the fuel inlet. All mentioned components are closed in a housing equipped with ventilation slots.
In another option, a furnace installation adapted for remote electronic control, is characterized by a set of heaters replacing the heating plate and electric valve and distribution plate temperature sensors and an evaporation plate temperature sensor, as well as automatic spark ignition and a set of safety sensors, including movement sensor, carbon oxide or optional carbon dioxide sensor, humidity sensor, are installed in the control system, whereas the fuel inlet in the main tank is protected with a mobile cover connected with a switch disabling the installation when the cover is open.
In an aspect of the principle of operation, the invention characteristic feature is that only fuel vapors are combusted in the furnace installation. The liquid fuel delivered into the combustion chamber is previously heated up in a heating chamber up to a selected temperature, until obtaining vapors, which in result of generated pressure are transferred into the combustion zone being the surface of an optionally shaped distribution chamber with numerous holes. Vapors get out via these holes and after ignition they are exposed to a controlled combustion process.
A next essential operational feature of the furnace installation is that the fuel is delivered to the evaporation plate in a gravitational manner, due to the connected vessels principle. The fuel is delivered in such manner that an aerial layer is left over the fuel table, which protects the fuel against entry into the valve and then into the fuel inlet. A small amount of fuel is metered for the ignition. The fuel is ignited in the heating plate what results in a fast heating of the evaporation plate together with the fuel, and the generated fuel vapors, under the influence of vaporization and raised pressure are transferred into the valve, and via an inlet connection into the distribution plate, where they are propagated and then exhausted via plate holes over the plate along its whole length. Then, after fuel depletion in the heating plate, the fuel vapors combusted over the distribution plate heat up the plate and its heat is transferred onto an evaporation stimulating process of fuel combustion on a targeted level in a self-acting manner, up to the moment of fuel depletion in the tank.
Moreover, the principle of operation of the furnace installation is characterized by this that the flame extinguishing or stoppage of the fuel vapor combustion process is obtained as a result of cut-off valve closing.
Other essential advantage of the furnace installation in automatic option is that the furnace installation is electronically controlled with use of a pilot, allowing automatic spark ignition, whereas after the installation is set working, the furnace installation is self-controlled with respect to combustion parameters, detecting unwanted concentration of generated gases, system leakage, and improper transport (overturning, conveying).
The furnace installation and its principle of operation possess a number of advantageous technical and usable features, as compared with commonly known furnace installations used as fireplaces and heating decorative devices.
According to essential features of the invention, the installation constitutes considerable technical development as compared with commonly known furnace installations, for example applied in bio-fuel bio-fireplaces. The advantages comprise as follow:
An example of a useful application of essential features of the invention is shown in the attached figure, where:
FIG. 1—is a schematic view of the furnace installation system with a single fuel tank,
FIG. 2—is a schematic view of the furnace installation system with two fuel tanks in the shield,
FIG. 3—is a view of the complete furnace installation—in a perspective projection,
FIG. 4—is a view of a complete furnace installation with an open fuel inlet—in a perspective projection,
FIG. 5—is a view of the furnace installation from FIGS. 3 and 4—in a perspective projection of subassemblies,
FIG. 6—is a schematic view of the furnace installation system—for an automatic option,
FIG. 7—is a schematic view of the combustion—in a furnace installation with a single fuel tank.
A furnace installation in an option with a single fuel tank is composed of the main components shown in
The principle of operation of the furnace installation is shown in
An advantageous example of the furnace installation with two fuel tanks, including details, is shown in
In order to stop the system operation, the cut-off valve 4 located between the evaporation plate 2 and the distribution plate, is closed. Stoppage of the vapor flow results in the flame extinguishing. At the same time, the vapors generated in the evaporation plate 2, having no way to escape, generate an overpressure over the liquid table in the evaporation plate 2. The overpressure pushes out the heated fuel into the tanks 1 and 14 where it is mixed with a cool fuel. As there is no contact with the hot walls of the evaporation plate 2, the evaporation process is rapidly stopped. In order to restart the system, the cut-off valve 4 should be opened, allowing fuel to flow into the evaporation plate (equalization of the level in connected vessels) and supply of the fuel portion into the heating plate 9, and finally the fuel ignition. When heated, the vapors are ignited by the flame of the fuel combusted in the heating plate 9. When the combustion in the heating plate 9 is stopped (heating up), the system is operated up to a moment of fuel cut-off or depletion on the fuel in the tanks 1 and 14.
An example of an electronically controlled furnace installation is shown in
The principle of operation of the installation of this type is following. When the fuel P is poured into the tank 1, the user closes the movable cover 35, which is protected with the switch 36, and the system cannot be switched ON before the cover is closed.
When the cover 35 is closed and the button ‘start’ on the control panel 38 or pilot 39 is pushed, the set of heaters 26 is enabled and the electric-valve 27 is opened. The set of heaters 26 heats the evaporation plate 2 up to a temperature of intensive fuel evaporation. The vapors are transferred via the electric-valve 27 into the distribution plate 3 and are then exhausted via the holes 12. At the moment, when the vapors reach the distribution plate 3, its temperature is raised, what is sensed by the temperature sensor 28. When the plate reaches a suitable temperature, a suitable signal is sent to the spark generator 30, and a spark is generated on the electrodes 31. The spark ignites the vapors over the distribution plate 3. The ignition of the vapors increases the temperature on the temperature sensor 29, signaling the flame ignition. If the temperature is not raised in a few seconds since the spark was generated, the sequence is repeated. If after several collapsed trials the temperature is not raised, the installation is switched OFF and the electric-valve 27 is closed. However, if the vapors were ignited and the temperature on the sensor 29 was raised, the operation is continued, and the set of heaters 26 is switched OFF. The fuel is evaporated in result of the heat transfer though the elements of the plates 2 and 3. There is an option of successive switching OFF the heaters 26, in order to raise the temperature of the evaporation plate 2 to control (raise) the flame. Because of the safety reasons, self-acting shut down, or shut down by the user intervention is also possible. A self-acting shut down takes place in several cases, i.e.: if the installation is moved, what is signalized by the sensor 32, if an improper concentration of gas in the air is detected by the sensor 33, if the fuel in the fuel tanks 1 and 14 is depleted and the temperature 29 is raised on the evaporation plate 2, or if the set of heaters 26 is activated without the fuel and the temperature is raised above a permissible temperature on the temperature sensor 29 located on the evaporation plate 2, and also if the movable cover 35 protecting access to the fuel inlet 5 is open, which is detected by switch 36 or if the diagnostic system detects a defect of any sensor. In each of the mentioned cases, the electro-valve 27 is closed, the installation is shut down, and a suitable message is displayed on a control panel 38.
However, a new combustion mode used in a furnace installation is schematically shown in
The described furnace installation and its principle of operation, according to essential features of the invention, does not comprise all possible realization types. These detailed descriptions of advantageous options should not be interpreted as limiting the basic innovative idea described in the main part of the present description.
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