1. Technical Field
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of submerged combustion glass melters and methods of use.
2. Background Art
Submerged combustion melters are known for producing molten glass. The nature of submerged combustion melters and their operation cause a perceptible and measurable vibration and/or oscillation in the system.
It would be an advance in the submerged combustion glass melting art to develop methods of using the vibration and/or oscillation of the submerged combustion melter, either alone or in combination with other system parameters, to predict properties of the molten glass or other material melted within the melter, particularly in situations where melter feeds, fuels, and/or oxidants are changing or expected to change.
In accordance with the present disclosure, methods of using vibrations and/or oscillations of a submerged combustion melter are described that may allow predicting or tuning of one or more molten or finished glass parameters.
A first aspect of the disclosure is a method, the method comprising:
a) flowing an oxidant and a fuel into a submerged combustion burner in a glass tank furnace, the glass tank furnace also receiving a feed of glass forming material, the burner and furnace comprising a melting system, the melting system having a variable system vibration, the melting system producing molten glass; and
b) predicting a value of at least one property of the molten glass using at least the variable system vibration.
A second aspect of the disclosure is method of producing molten glass using submerged combustion, the method comprising:
a) flowing an oxidant and a fuel into at least one submerged combustion burner in a glass tank furnace, the glass tank furnace also receiving a feed of glass forming material, the burner and furnace comprising a melting system, the melting system having a variable system vibration, the melting system producing molten glass;
b) measuring frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration; and
b) predicting a value of viscosity of the molten glass using at least the measured frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration.
A third aspect of the disclosure is a method of producing molten glass using submerged combustion, the method comprising:
a) flowing an oxidant and a fuel into at least one submerged combustion burner in a glass tank furnace, the glass tank furnace also receiving a feed of glass forming material, the burner and furnace comprising a melting system, the melting system having a variable system vibration, the melting system producing molten glass;
b) measuring frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration;
c) analyzing the frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration using one or more mathematical techniques to identify one or more key frequencies and/or amplitudes; and
b) predicting a value of viscosity of the molten glass using at least the measured frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration.
Certain methods within the disclosure include feeding forward the predicted value of the at least one property to a controller controlling a process or component downstream of the glass tank melter into which at least a portion of the molten glass flows.
Methods of the disclosure will become more apparent upon review of the brief description of the drawings, the detailed description of the disclosure, and the claims that follow.
The manner in which the objectives of the disclosure and other desirable characteristics can be obtained is explained in the following description and attached drawings in which:
It is to be noted, however, that
In the following description, numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the disclosed methods and systems for carrying out the methods. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the methods and systems may be practiced without these details and that numerous variations or modifications from the specifically described embodiments may be possible and are deemed within the claims or claimable subject matter in this or subsequent patents. All United States (U.S.) published patent applications and U.S. Patents referenced herein are hereby explicitly incorporated herein by reference. In the event definitions of terms in the referenced patents and applications conflict with how those terms are defined in the present application, the definitions for those terms that are provided in the present application shall be deemed controlling.
The term “fuel”, according to this disclosure, means a combustible composition comprising a major portion of, for example, methane, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane, atomized oil or the like (either in gaseous or liquid form). Fuels useful in the disclosure may comprise minor amounts of non-fuels therein, including oxidants, for purposes such as premixing the fuel with the oxidant, or atomizing liquid fuels. As used herein the term “fuel” includes gaseous fuels, liquid fuels, flowable solids, such as powdered carbon or particulate material, waste materials, slurries, and mixtures or other combinations thereof. When the fuel comprises gaseous fuel, the gaseous fuel may be selected from the group consisting of methane, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, steam-reformed natural gas, atomized oil or mixtures thereof.
“Oxidant” means air, or compositions comprising the same molar concentration of oxygen as air, while the term “oxygen” means a gas with an oxygen molar concentration of at least 50%. Such oxidants include oxygen-enriched air containing at least 50% vol., oxygen such as “industrially” pure oxygen (99.5%) produced by a cryogenic air separation plant or non-pure oxygen produced by an adsorption process or membrane permeation process (about 90% vol. oxygen or more).
Submerged combustion melters useful in methods and systems of the present disclosure may be comprised of metal, ceramic, ceramic-lined metal, or combination thereof. Suitable metals include stainless steels, for example, but not limited to, 306 and 316 steel, as well as titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, and the like.
In all embodiments of the disclosure the sources of oxidant and fuel may be one or more conduits, pipelines, storage facility, cylinders, or, in embodiments where the oxidant is air, ambient air. Oxygen-enriched oxidants may be supplied from a pipeline, cylinder, storage facility, cryogenic air separation unit, membrane permeation separator, or adsorption unit such as a vacuum swing adsorption unit. Certain burner and melter embodiments may comprise a source of oxidant fluidly connected to the second conduit for routing the oxidant to the primary annulus, wherein the oxidant is selected from the group consisting of air and oxygen-enriched air, and a source of fuel fluidly connected to the second end of the first conduit for routing the fuel to the longitudinal bore of the first conduit.
In certain methods of the disclosure the predicted and/or controlled property of the molten glass may be a physical property selected from the group consisting of boiling point, color, concentration, density, electrical conductivity or impedance, flexibility, flow rate, mass, melting point, pressure, specific heat, resistivity, temperature, tension, velocity, viscosity, and volume.
In certain methods the predicting step may comprise measuring the depth or level of molten glass in the glass tank furnace, and using the measured depth or level in the predicting.
Certain method embodiments may comprise feeding forward the predicted value of the at least one property to a controller controlling a process or component downstream of the glass tank melter into which at least a portion of the molten glass flows.
Certain method embodiments may comprise using the predicted value of the at least one property of the melt to control the glass tank furnace.
Certain method embodiments may comprise feeding forward the predicted value of the at least one property of the melt to a controller controlling a process or component downstream of the glass tank melter into which at least a portion of the molten glass flows and using the predicted value of the at least one property to control the glass tank furnace.
Certain method embodiments may comprise measuring frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration. Certain methods may comprise analyzing the frequency and/or amplitude of the variable system vibration using one or more mathematical techniques to identify one or more key frequencies and/or amplitudes. Certain methods may comprise measuring at least one other system property selected from the group consisting of flow rate of oxidant, flow rate of fuel, flow rate of glass forming material, flow rate of molten glass, glass tank furnace pressure, height or depth of molten glass in the glass tank furnace, and combinations thereof. In certain methods the predicting may comprise using a technique selected from the group consisting of linear regression, non-linear modeling, and neural net modeling.
Certain method and systems embodiments of the disclosure may be controlled by one or more controllers. For example, burner flame temperature may be controlled by monitoring one or more parameters selected from velocity of the fuel, velocity of the primary oxidant, mass flow rate of the fuel, mass flow rate of the primary oxidant, energy content of the fuel, temperature of the fuel as it enters the burner, temperature of the primary oxidant as it enters the burner, temperature of the effluent, pressure of the primary oxidant entering the burner, humidity of the oxidant, burner geometry, combustion ratio, and combinations thereof. Exemplary methods and systems of the disclosure may comprise one or more slave combustion controller which receives one or more input parameters selected from velocity of the fuel, velocity of the primary oxidant, mass flow rate of the fuel, mass flow rate of the primary oxidant, energy content of the fuel, temperature of the fuel as it enters the burner, temperature of the primary oxidant as it enters the burner, pressure of the oxidant entering the burner, humidity of the oxidant, burner geometry, oxidation ratio, temperature of the effluent and combinations thereof, and may employ a control algorithm to control combustion temperature based on one or more of these input parameters. One or more of the slave combustion controllers may feed one or more outputs to one or more master controllers that receive measurements indicative of one or more melter vibrations and/or oscillations, the master controller then predicting a parameter of the melt for feeding forward to another process, or controlling the melter, or both.
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A fiberization burner 116, which may be an air-fuel or oxy-fuel burner, functions to produce a hot flame at a controlled temperature, velocity, and oxidation state. The glass fiber product to be manufactured is a function of the mass flow rate of the glass, the primary glass fiber diameter, the flame temperature produced by burner 116, the slot size and pressure inside of burner 116, and the product code fiber diameter. Benefits of using oxygen or oxygen-enriched air as an oxidant in fiberization burners may include higher flame temperature fiberization, which may lead to increased fiber tensile strength, longer fibers, and reduce production or elimination of shot, or looser process control to avoid producing shot. Fluctuations in humidity may be reduced, and variation in fiber quality may be reduced.
In accordance with the present disclosure, a controller 140 may receive a signal P from controller 48 controlling melter system and method 1 (
In the system and method illustrated schematically in
Flow rates and composition of injected gas will depend upon the desired final foamed glass product density, and the flow rate of molten glass, but generally the flow rate of gas will range from about 0 to about 0.1 scf/lb. (0 to about 6250 cm3/kg) of molten glass product/injector, or from 0 to about 0.03 scf/lb. (0 to about 1875 cm3/kg) of molten glass product/injector. The number of and position of gas injectors 302 may vary, with lower number of injectors generally meaning their diameter would increase to deliver an equivalent amount of gas. Some of the injectors may be floor (bottom) mounted while some may be side-wall mounted, or all may be floor-mounted or all may be side-wall mounted. Gas injectors 302 may be positioned uniformly or non-uniformly. Flow of gas may be pulsed or non-pulsed. The flow rate of molten glass though channel 58 will in turn depend on the dimensions of channel 58, size of melter 10, temperature of the melt, viscosity of the melt, and like parameters, but in general the flow rate of molten glass in channel 58 may range from about 0.5 lb/min to over 5000 lbs/min (from about 0.23 kg/min to over 2300 kg/min), or from about 10 lbs/min to about 500 lbs/min (from about 4.5 kg/min to about 227 kg/min), or from about 100 lbs/min to 300 lbs/min (from about 45 kg/min to about 135 kg/min).
Temperature of the injected gas through gas injectors 302 is not critical, but higher temperature gases may increase the ability of the gas to disperse in the foamy molten glass and cause less heat loss in the system, while cooler gases may require that the melter and possibly the lehr use more energy in the melting and annealing steps. In certain embodiments the injected gas may actually be used to control cooling of the foamy molten glass.
Pressure of the injected gases is also not critical, except that the pressure at the tip of the gas injectors need be higher than the local pressure of the foamy molten glass in channel 58. Too high gas injection pressures may cause unnecessary and undesired “belching” of the foamy molten glass, while too low gas injection pressure may cause the gas to be held up by the foamy molten glass, or not enter the foamy molten glass in channel 58. In worse cases the foamy molten glass might enter the gas injectors, which is undesired.
Gas injectors 302 may simply be open-ended pipes protruding through the bottom, the sides, or both of channel 58, or may be specifically designed injectors, such as pipe-in-pipe designs having water-cooled injection tubes, nozzles, and the like. The injectors themselves may be straight, angled, or curved conduits, and they may inject gas perpendicular to the bottom or sidewalls of channel 58, or may inject gas at an angle to the bottom and/or sidewalls.
Channel 58 and gas injectors 302 may be made from stainless steel, ceramic material (for example zirconia and the like), or other heat-resistant material, and combinations thereof (for example ceramic inserts in stainless steel tubes). Channel 58 may have any lateral shape, such rectangular, oval, round, and the like. Depth of channel 58 may vary, but exemplary embodiments may have a depth that is commensurate with melter 10 depth, and such that the foamy molten glass will be able to move onto conveyor 308 and into lehr 306.
Another method of this disclosure is presented in the logic diagram of
Yet another method of this disclosure is presented in the logic diagram of
Another method of this disclosure is presented in the logic diagram of
In operation of burners of the disclosure, in exemplary embodiments oxidant may be fed to the primary annulus, and a fuel to the longitudinal bore of the first conduit. An inorganic glass-forming material is charged to the melter. The mass flow rate of the inorganic material, for example glass, is a function of the composition of the feed material, desired composition, viscosity, and temperature of the molten glass, the flame temperature of the burner(s), the burner geometry, for example burner exit, nozzle exit, and non-central passages sizes, the pressure in the mixing region of the burner, and other parameters. The process operating conditions are generally not independent values but have some degree of interaction. Oxygen-enhanced oxidant/fuel melting is markedly different than the traditional air-fuel melting processes. The general principle is to operate combustion in the mixing region of the burner in a manner that replaces some of the air with a separate source of oxygen. The overall combustion ratio may not change. The process of combining fuel and oxygen-enriched oxidant will, in most embodiments, primarily occur in the mixing region, after the gases have passed over a flame arrestor safety device. Varying the oxygen content of the oxidant can control the flame temperature of the combustion gases.
The total quantities of fuel and oxidant used by submerged combustion burners useful in methods and systems of the present disclosure may be such that the flow of oxygen may range from about 0.9 to about 1.2 of the theoretical stoichiometric flow of oxygen necessary to obtain the complete combustion of the fuel flow. Another expression of this statement is that the combustion ratio may range from about 0.9 to about 1.2.
The velocity of the fuel in the burners of various method and system embodiments of the present disclosure depends on the burner geometry used, but generally is at least about 15 meters/second (m/s). The upper limit of fuel velocity depends primarily on the desired penetration of flame and/or combustion products into the glass melt and the geometry of the burner and melter; if the fuel velocity is too low, the flame temperature may be too low, providing inadequate temperature in the melter, which is not desired, and if the fuel flow is too high, flame and/or combustion products might impinge on a melter wall or roof, or cause carryover of melt into the exhaust, or be wasted, which is also not desired. Similarly, oxidant velocity should be monitored so that flame and/or combustion products do not impinge on a melter wall or roof, or cause carryover of melt into the exhaust, or be wasted. Oxidant velocities depend on fuel flow rate and fuel velocity, but in general should not exceed about 200 ft/sec at 400 scfh flow rate.
Additionally, burners useful in methods and system embodiments of this disclosure may also be provided with stabilization of the flame with an auxiliary injection of fuel and/or oxidant gases. For example, a portion of the oxidant may be premixed with fuel as a primary oxidant, usually air, in addition to a secondary oxidant injection.
Conduits, submerged combustion melter, luers, forehearths, channels, burners and the like useful in methods of the present disclosure may be comprised of metal, ceramic, ceramic-lined metal, or combination thereof. Suitable metals include stainless steels, for example, but not limited to, 306, 316, as well as titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, and the like. High-strength materials like C-110 and C-125 metallurgies that are NACE qualified may be employed. (As used herein, “NACE” refers to the corrosion prevention organization formerly known as the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, now operating under the name NACE International, Houston, Tex.) Use of high strength steel and other high strength materials may significantly reduce the wall thickness required, reducing weight for example of burners and melter walls. Threaded connections may eliminate the need for 3rd party forgings and expensive welding processes—considerably improving system delivery time and overall cost. It will be understood, however, that the use of 3rd party forgings and welding is not ruled out for certain burners useful in the methods described herein, and may actually be preferable in certain situations.
If ceramic materials are used, suitable materials may include fused zirconia (ZrO2), fused cast AZS (alumina-zirconia-silica), rebonded AZS, or fused cast alumina (Al2O3). The choice of a particular material is dictated among other parameters by the chemistry, pressure, and temperature of fuel and oxidant used and type of glass melt to be produced.
The skilled artisan, having knowledge of the particular application, pressures, temperatures, vibrations, and available materials, will be able design the most cost effective, safe, and operable system components for each particular application without undue experimentation.
One or more control strategies may be employed, as long as the strategy includes measurement of melter system vibration and/or oscillation and those measurements (or values derived from those measurements) are used in predicting a melt property and/or controlling the melter system and/or controlling a downstream component or process. A combustion process control scheme may be employed, for example in conjunction with burner controllers 34, 36. A master controller may be employed, such as controller 48, but the disclosure is not so limited, as any combination of controllers could be used. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) may be used.
Control strategies may be selected from proportional-integral (PI), proportional-integral-derivative (PID) (including any known or reasonably foreseeable variations of these), and may compute a residual equal to a difference between a measured value and a set point to produce an output to one or more control elements. The controller may compute the residual continuously or non-continuously. Other possible implementations of the disclosure are those wherein the controller comprises more specialized control strategies, such as strategies selected from feed forward, cascade control, internal feedback loops, model predictive control, neural networks, and Kalman filtering techniques.
Measurement of vibration is a well-developed science in its own right and requires little explanation to the skilled vibration sensor artisan. A good summary is provided by Furman, B. J., “Vibration Measurement”, San Jose State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, pp. 1-14, 22 Nov. 2005, incorporated herein by reference. Furman described vibration as interchange between potential and kinetic energy in bodies with finite stiffness and mass that arises from time dependent energy input, and gives examples, including fluid flow. Without being limited to any particular theory, the inventors herein theorize that the oxidant and/or fuel fluid flows through submerged combustion burners, and the flames and combustion products emanating from those burners, contribute to the vibration and/or oscillation observed in submerged combustion glass tank furnaces. Basic parameters of vibration study, such as amplitude, amplitude peak level, peak-to-peak amplitude, root-mean-square (RMS) amplitude level, and average (rectified) amplitude, are given schematically in
Furman also summarizes vibration measurement transducers that may be useful in methods and systems of the present disclosure, for example, displacement-based sensors, velocity-based sensors, and acceleration-based sensors. Other sensors may be used. Examples of displacement-based sensors include linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) sensors, Eddy current sensors, capacitive sensors, and Hall sensors. Examples of velocity-based sensors include geophones and laser Doppler vibrometers. Examples of acceleration-based vibration sensors, perhaps more commonly referred to simply as accelerometers, include piezoelectric accelerometers, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers, and thermal accelerometers.
Sensors may be provided for burner controllers for the following parameters, which are merely exemplary examples: Vfuel, velocity of fuel entering burner; VPO, velocity of primary oxidant entering burner; VSO, velocity of secondary oxidant entering burner; Mfuel, mass flow rate of fuel entering burner; MPO, mass flow rate of primary oxidant entering burner; Tfuel, temperature of fuel entering burner; TPO, temperature of primary oxidant entering burner; PPO, pressure of primary oxidant entering burner; HPO, humidity of primary oxidant. Outputs may be provided for the following parameters, which are merely exemplary: Vfuel, velocity of fuel entering burner; VPO, velocity of primary oxidant entering burner; Mfuel, mass flow rate of fuel entering burner; MSO, mass flow rate of secondary oxidant entering burner; Tfuel, temperature of fuel entering burner; TPO, temperature of primary oxidant entering burner; PSO, pressure of secondary oxidant entering burner; MEFF (or MHTF), mass flow rate of hot effluent (or heat transfer fluid). Other parameters may be included as inputs, such as burner geometry, melter geometry, combustion ratio, melt viscosity, and the like.
Mathematical treatment of vibration and/or oscillation data, or any data collected as described herein, is straightforward. Transforms, such as Fourier and Inverse Fourier transforms, Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms, Z-transforms and inverse Z-transforms, are known and explained in various textbooks and on the Internet. For example, see MathWorks.com. Any one or more of these mathematical treatments may be used to identify key frequencies, amplitudes, and the like.
An example of an equation that might be analyzed and used for predicting melt viscosity is Equation (1):
η=f(T, h, ω, u, P, R) (1)
where: η=melt viscosity, T=melt temperature, h=depth of glass in the melter, ω=frequency of vibration and/or oscillation of the melter, u=amplitude of vibration and/or oscillation of the melter, P=pressure in the melter, and R=melt flow rate from the melter. Non-limiting examples of other equations might be Equations 2-6:
η=f(T, ω, u, P, R, Vfuel,VPO, Mfuel, MPO) (2)
η=f(T, h, ω, P, R, Vfuel, VPO, Mfuel, MPO) (3)
η=f(T, h, ω, u, P, R, melter geometry) (4)
Θ=f(T, h, ω, u, P, R, burner geometry) (5)
ρ=f(T, ω, u, P, R) (6)
where ρ is density of the melt. More than one equation may be employed, depending on the specific situation.
The term “control”, used as a transitive verb, means to verify or regulate by comparing with a standard or desired value. Control may be closed loop, feedback, feed-forward, cascade, model predictive, adaptive, heuristic and combinations thereof. The term “controller” means a device at least capable of accepting input from sensors and meters in real time or near—real time, and sending commands directly to burner control elements, and/or to local devices associated with burner control elements able to accept commands. A controller may also be capable of accepting input from human operators; accessing databases, such as relational databases; sending data to and accessing data in databases, data warehouses or data marts; and sending information to and accepting input from a display device readable by a human. A controller may also interface with or have integrated therewith one or more software application modules, and may supervise interaction between databases and one or more software application modules.
The phrase “PID controller” means a controller using proportional, integral, and derivative features. In some cases the derivative mode may not be used or its influence reduced significantly so that the controller may be deemed a PI controller. It will also be recognized by those of skill in the control art that there are existing variations of PI and PID controllers, depending on how the discretization is performed. These known and foreseeable variations of PI, PID and other controllers are considered within the disclosure.
The controller may utilize Model Predictive Control (MPC). MPC is an advanced multivariable control method for use in multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) systems. MPC computes a sequence of manipulated variable adjustments in order to optimise the future behavior of the process in question. At each control time k, MPC solves a dynamic optimization problem using a model of the controlled system, so as to optimize future behavior (at time k+1, k+2 . . . k+n) over a prediction horizon n. This is again performed at time k+1, k+2 . . . . MPC may use any derived objective function, such as Quadratic Performance Objective, and the like, including weighting functions of manipulated variables and measurements. Dynamics of the process and/or system to be controlled are described in an explicit model of the process and/or system, which may be obtained for example by mathematical modeling, or estimated from test data of the real process and/or system. Some techniques to determine some of the dynamics of the system and/or process to be controlled include step response models, impulse response models, and other linear or non-linear models. Often an accurate model is not necessary. Input and output constraints may be included in the problem formulation so that future constraint violations are anticipated and prevented, such as hard constraints, soft constraints, set point constraints, funnel constraints, return on capital constraints, and the like. It may be difficult to explicitly state stability of an MPC control scheme, and in certain embodiments of the present disclosure it may be necessary to use nonlinear MPC. In so-called advanced control of various systems, PID control may be used on strong mono-variable loops with few or nonproblematic interactions, while one or more networks of MPC might be used, or other multivariable control structures, for strong interconnected loops. Furthermore, computing time considerations may be a limiting factor. Some embodiments may employ nonlinear MPC.
A feed forward algorithm, if used, will in the most general sense be task specific, meaning that it will be specially designed to the task it is designed to solve. This specific design might be difficult to design, but a lot is gained by using a more general algorithm, such as a first or second order filter with a given gain and time constants.
Although only a few exemplary embodiments of this disclosure have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible in the exemplary embodiments without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this disclosure. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this disclosure as defined in the following claims. In the claims, no clauses are intended to be in the means-plus-function format allowed by 35 U.S.C. §112, paragraph 6 unless “means for” is explicitly recited together with an associated function. “Means for” clauses are intended to cover the structures described herein as performing the recited function and not only structural equivalents, but also equivalent structures.
This application is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 13/268,065 filed Oct. 7, 2011, now issued Pat. No. 8,973,400. This application is related to assignee's United States non-provisional U.S. application Ser. No. 12/817,754, filed Jun. 17, 2010, now issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,769,992, issued Jul. 8, 2014; Ser. No. 12/888,970, filed Sep. 23, 2010, now issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,650,914, issued Feb. 18, 2014; Ser. No. 13/267,990, filed Oct. 7, 2011; and Ser. No. 13/268,028, filed Oct. 7, 2011, now issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,875,544, issued Nov. 4, 2014, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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