Technical Field
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of combustion burners and methods of use, and more specifically to burners, submerged combustion melters, and methods of their use, particularly for melting glass-forming materials.
Background Art
A submerged combustion melter (SCM) may be employed to melt glass batch and/or waste glass materials to produce molten glass by passing oxygen, oxygen-enriched mixtures, or air along with a liquid, gaseous and/or particulate fuel (some of which may be in the glass-forming materials), directly into a molten pool of glass, usually through burners submerged in a glass melt pool. The introduction of high flow rates of products of combustion of the oxidant and fuel into the molten glass, and the expansion of the gases during submerged combustion (SC), cause rapid melting of the glass batch and much turbulence.
In the context of SCMs, known oxy-fuel burners are predominately water-cooled, nozzle mix designs and avoid premixing for safety reasons due to the increased reactivity of using oxygen as the oxidant versus air. One currently used submerged combustion burner employs a smooth exterior surface, half-toroid metallic burner tip of the same or similar material as the remainder of the burner. When operating an SCM with burners of this nature, the combustion burner tips are exposed to a glass and combustion gas environment high and oscillating temperatures. The burner can be designed so that the oxidant (typically oxygen) or fuel flow cools the inner wall of the burner tip before combustion occurs, but the flow cannot provide cooling to the top crown and outer wall of the burner tip. Although cooling water or other coolant is typically applied to cool the burner tip, the temperatures are extremely high for typical metal alloys when the hot glass (2500+° F. (1,370+° C.)) or combustion products (up to 4000° F. (2,190° C.) contact the burner tip. Also, since the burner tip section temperature is oscillating with the combustion bubble growth, the burner tip experiences frequent rapid temperature change. Therefore, burner life can be very short due to the failure of the materials used to form the burner tip.
Failure analysis of used SCM burner tips identified thermal fatigue cracking and hot spot formation in the toroid burner tip as two important modes of burner failure. Hot spots may form during the operation, likely due to partial plugging of the burner, which may direct combustion flame toward one side of the burner and cause localized heating or hot spot formation. This situation leads to rapid localized oxidation of the burner tip material, and consequent reduction in wall thickness of the burner tip. Thermal fatigue may be problematic because, for the most part, portions of the burner tip remain exposed to turbulent molten glass, while other portions are exposed to gaseous combustion mixture (for example natural gas and oxygen). Furthermore, while the burner tip is exposed to rapidly fluctuating temperature and loading conditions, lower portions of the burner tip, and the burner body below the burner tip, are immobilized by the refractory liner and steel shell of the melter. Being confined, the burner tip experiences a repetitive thermal stress pattern. Additionally, temperature gradients across the burner tip wall thickness cause thermal stresses at the apex of the burner tip crown. It is also known that film boiling occurs at the internal water-cooled surface of the burner tip (U-turn) causing rapid fluctuations in the thermal gradient across the burner wall thickness at the toroid shaped tip. It is believed this challenging service condition causes thermal fatigue failure of the burner by forming multiple and mostly radial cracks at the burner tip.
The hot spot formation can be addressed by suitably increasing the wall thickness. However, addressing the thermal fatigue issue (caused by temperature gradient dependent thermal stress) requires reduced wall thickness. While lower wall thickness (with reduced thermal gradient) extends fatigue crack initiation life, higher wall thickness favors crack propagation life. These contradictory requirements make it extremely challenging to design future burners for superior service life.
Development of submerged combustion burners having longer life and less susceptibility to the SCM environment while melting glass-forming materials would be a significant advance in the submerged combustion art.
In accordance with the present disclosure, submerged combustion (SC) burners, melters including at least one of the submerged combustion burners, and methods of using the melters to produce molten glass are described that may reduce or eliminate problems with known SC burners, melters, and methods.
A first aspect of the disclosure is a fluid-cooled burner comprising:
a burner body (6) comprising an external conduit (10) and a first internal conduit (12) substantially concentric therewith, and positioned internal of the external conduit (10), the external conduit (10) comprising a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal bore having a longitudinal axis, the first internal conduit (12) comprising a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal bore having a longitudinal axis, and a second internal conduit (14) substantially concentric with, and positioned internal of the first internal conduit, the second internal conduit (14) comprising a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal bore having a longitudinal axis, the external conduit (10) and first internal conduit (12) forming a first annulus (11) there between for passing a cooling fluid, the first internal conduit (12) and the second internal conduit (14) forming a second annulus (13) there between for passing the cooling fluid, and a third internal conduit (15) configured to form a third annulus between the second (14) and third (15) internal conduits, the burner body comprising fuel and oxidant inlet ports near the second ends of the conduits; and
a burner tip (4) defined by an inner wall (28) and an outer wall (30) connected via a crown (32), the outer wall (30) removably fixed to the first end of the external conduit (10) via an outer connection, and the inner wall (28) removably fixed to the first end of the second internal conduit (14) via an inner connection, the burner tip (4) comprising a generally central burner tip flow passage configured to pass a combustible mixture therethrough, the generally central burner tip flow passage defined by the inner wall (28); and
wherein the burner tip crown (32) comprises a first portion defining a circumferential concavity (50) having a curvature orientation, and second and third portions defining inner and outer crown rims (52, 54), at least the outer crown rim (54) extending above the circumferential concavity (50). Optionally, the burner tip crown (32) and inner (28) and outer (30) walls may comprise the same or different corrosion resistant and fatigue resistant material, at least one of the corrosion and/or fatigue resistance being greater than material comprising the external conduit (10) under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming materials.
A second aspect of the disclosure is a submerged combustion melter comprising:
a floor, a roof, and a sidewall structure connecting the floor and roof defining an internal space, at least a portion of the internal space comprising a melting zone; and
one or more combustion burners in either the floor, the roof, the sidewall structure, or any two or more of these, producing combustion gases and configured to emit the combustion gases from a position under a level of, and positioned to transfer heat to and produce a turbulent molten mass of glass in the melting zone, at least one of the combustion burners being a fluid-cooled combustion burner as described herein.
A third aspect of the disclosure are methods of producing molten glass comprising feeding glass-forming materials to a submerged combustion melter including at least one fluid-cooled combustion burner as described herein, feeding an oxidant and a fuel to the burner, combusting the fuel and oxidant, and melting the glass-forming materials to produce molten glass.
Certain methods within the disclosure include methods wherein the fuel may be a substantially gaseous fuel 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, and the oxidant may be an oxygen stream comprising at least 90 mole percent oxygen.
Burners, melters, and 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 schematic drawings in which:
It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings are schematic only, may not be to scale, illustrate only typical embodiments of this disclosure, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the disclosure may admit to other equally effective embodiments.
In the following description, numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the disclosed apparatus and methods. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the apparatus and methods covered by the claims 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. All 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. All percentages herein are based on weight unless otherwise specified.
As explained briefly in the Background, in present SC burners employing a metallic burner tip, although coolant is typically applied to cool SC burner tips, the extremely high temperature molten glass and combustion gases contact the outer wall and crown of the burner tip. In this environment the burner tip temperature in these regions oscillates with the combustion gas bubble growth and burst cycle. Thus, the burner tip experiences not only extremely high temperatures, but also frequent rapid temperature change. Hot spots may form, perhaps due to partial plugging of the burner, which may direct combustion flame toward one side of the burner and cause localized heating or hot spot formation. This situation may lead to rapid localized oxidation of the burner tip material, and consequent reduction in wall thickness of the burner tip. Thermal fatigue may be problematic because, for the most part, portions of the burner tip remain exposed to turbulent molten glass, while other portions are exposed to gaseous combustion mixture. Furthermore, while the burner tip is exposed to rapidly fluctuating temperature and loading conditions, lower portions of the burner tip, and portions of the burner body below the burner tip, are immobilized by the refractory liner and steel shell of the melter. Being confined, the burner tip experiences a repetitive thermal stress pattern. Additionally, temperature gradients across the burner tip wall thickness cause thermal stresses at the apex of the burner tip crown. Therefore, burner life can be very short due to the failure of the materials used to form the burner tip.
The SC burners of the present disclosure solve this problem by providing a burner tip comprising a first portion defining a circumferential concavity facing generally away from the burner body, and second and third portions defining inner and outer crown rims, at least the outer crown rim extending above the first portion, the concavity having a curvature orientation as further explained herein. SC burners of the present disclosure invoke a geometrical change in the toroid shaped burner tip for favorably shifting the peak stress spot and distributing the stress over a wider area for extended fatigue life without compromising on the event of burner hot spot formation.
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It has now been discovered that provision of a circumferential concavity in substantial portions or the entire burner tip crown not only reduces thermal fatigue, but reduces hot spot formation. This crown, and optionally careful selection of burner tip material and type of connections between the burner tip walls and conduits forming the burner body, may significantly increase the operating life of SC burners used to melt glass-forming materials in an SCM. Optionally, the burner tip crown and inner and outer walls may comprise the same or different corrosion resistant and fatigue resistant material, at least one of the corrosion and/or fatigue resistance being greater than material comprising the external conduit under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming materials.
Various terms are used throughout this disclosure. “Submerged” as used herein means that combustion gases emanate from a combustion burner through the burner tip under the level of the molten glass; the burners may be floor-mounted, roof-mounted, wall-mounted, or in melter embodiments comprising more than one submerged combustion burner, any combination thereof (for example, two floor mounted burners and one wall mounted burner). “SC” as used herein means “submerged combustion” unless otherwise specifically noted, and “SCM” means submerged combustion melter unless otherwise specifically noted.
As used herein the phrase “combustion gases” as used herein means substantially gaseous mixtures comprised primarily of combustion products, such as oxides of carbon (such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide), oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur, and water, as well as partially combusted fuel, non-combusted fuel, and any excess oxidant. Combustion products may include liquids and solids, for example soot and unburned liquid fuels.
“Oxidant” as used herein includes air (“air” includes gases having the same molar concentration of oxygen as air); oxygen-enriched air (air having oxygen concentration greater than 21 mole percent), and “pure” oxygen, such as industrial grade oxygen, food grade oxygen, electronic grade oxygen, and cryogenic oxygen. Oxygen-enriched air may have 50 mole percent or more oxygen, and in certain embodiments may be 90 mole percent or more oxygen.
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, hydrogen, steam-reformed natural gas, atomized hydrocarbon oil, combustible powders and other flowable solids (for example coal powders, carbon black, soot, and the like), and the like. 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 or particulate 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.
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.
Though original design called for uniform wall thickness (˜2 mm) for the burner tip walls 28, 30 as well as crown 32, analysis of service-used burner tips that failed during operation had a thicker wall (˜4 mm) at the burner tip crown 32 as illustrated schematically in the longitudinal cross-sectional view of
Considering these observations, it was theorized that if the apex 31 of burner tip crown 32 was suitably truncated, the peak stress could be significantly reduced and distributed on either side of apex 31 of crown 32. An example of this is illustrated in embodiment 100 of
Embodiment 300 illustrated schematically in
Melter apparatus in accordance with the present disclosure may also comprise one or more wall-mounted submerged combustion burners, and/or one or more roof-mounted burners (not illustrated). Roof-mounted burners may be useful to pre-heat the melter apparatus melting zones, and serve as ignition sources for one or more submerged combustion burners. Melter apparatus having only wall-mounted, submerged-combustion burners are also considered within the present disclosure. Roof-mounted burners may be oxy-fuel burners, but as they are only used in certain situations, are more likely to be air/fuel burners. Most often they would be shut-off after pre-heating the melter and/or after starting one or more submerged combustion burners. In certain embodiments, if there is a possibility of carryover of batch particles to the exhaust, one or more roof-mounted burners could be used to form a curtain to prevent particulate carryover. In certain embodiments, all submerged combustion burners are oxy/fuel burners (where “oxy” means oxygen, or oxygen-enriched air, as described earlier herein), but this is not necessarily so in all embodiments; some or all of the submerged combustion burners may be air/fuel burners. Furthermore, heating may be supplemented by electrical heating in certain embodiments, in certain melter zones..
Optionally, the burner tip crown and inner and outer walls may comprise the same or different corrosion resistant and fatigue resistant material, at least one of the corrosion and/or fatigue resistance being greater than material comprising the external conduit under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming materials. Applicant's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/785,325 , filed Oct. 17, 2015 (published as US2016/0075586A1, Mar. 17, 2016, describes use of corrosion-resistant and/or fatigue resistant materials for the burner tip components connected to a dissimilar (and in certain embodiments, lower cost) material as the burner body, and methods of attachment. More particularly, at least one of the corrosion and/or fatigue resistance of the outer wall of the burner tip may be greater than material comprising the external conduit under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming materials.
Burner tips may comprise same or different noble metals or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant materials, such as platinum (Pt), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), osmium (Os), iridium (Ir), and gold (Au); alloys of two or more noble metals; and alloys of one or more noble metals with a base metal. As described in the above-mentioned 14/785,325 application, in certain embodiments the burner tip may comprise a platinum/rhodium alloy attached to the base metals comprising the burner body using a variety of techniques, such as brazing, flanged fittings, interference fittings, friction welding, threaded fittings, and the like, as further described herein with regard to specific embodiments. Threaded connections may eliminate the need for 3rd party forgings and expensive welding or brazing processes —considerably improving system delivery time and overall cost. It will be understood, however, that the use of 3rd party forgings, welding, and brazing are not ruled out for burners described herein, and may actually be preferable in certain situations.
When in alloyed form, alloys of two or more noble metals may have any range of noble metals. For example, alloys of two noble metals may have a range of about 0.01 to about 99.99 percent of a first noble metal and 99.99 to 0.01 percent of a second noble metal. Any and all ranges in between 0 and 99.99 percent first noble metal and 99.99 and 0 percent second noble metal are considered within the present disclosure, including 0 to about 99 percent of first noble metal; 0 to about 98 percent; 0 to about 97 percent; 0 to about 96; 0 to about 95; 0 to about 90; 0 to about 80; 0 to about 75; 0 to about 70; 0 to about 65; 0 to about 60; 0 to about 55; 0 to about 50; 0 to about 45, 0 to about 40; 0 to about 35; 0 to about 30; 0 to about 25; 0 to about 20; 0 to about 19; 0 to about 18; 0 to about 17; 0 to about 16; 0 to about 15; 0 to about 14; 0 to about 13; 0 to about 12; 0 to about 11; 0 to about 10; 0 to about 9; 0 to about 8; 0 to about 7; 0 to about 6; 0 to about 5; 0 to about 4; 0 to about 3; 0 to about 2; 0 to about 1; and 0 to about 0.5 percent of a first noble metal; with the balance comprising a second noble metal, or consisting essentially of a second noble metal (for example with one or more base metals present at no more than about 10 percent, or no more than about 9 percent base metal, or no more than about 8, or about 7, or about 6, or about 5, or about 4, or about 3, or about 2, or no more than about 1 percent base metal).
In certain noble metal alloy embodiments comprising three or more noble metals, the percentages of each individual noble metal may range from equal amounts of all noble metals in the composition (about 33.33 percent of each), to compositions comprising, or consisting essentially of, 0.01 percent of a first noble metal, 0.01 percent of a second noble metal, and 99.98 percent of a third noble metal. Any and all ranges in between about 33.33 percent of each, and 0.01 percent of a first noble metal, 0.01 percent of a second noble metal, and 99.98 percent of a third noble metal, are considered within the present disclosure.
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, and available materials, will be able design the most cost effective, safe, and operable burners for each particular application without undue experimentation.
The terms “corrosion resistant” and “fatigue resistant” as used herein refer to two different failure mechanisms that may occur simultaneously, and it is theorized that these failure mechanisms may actually influence each other in profound ways. It is preferred that the burner tips with circumferential concavities will have a satisfactory service life of at least 12 months under conditions existing in a continuously operating SCM, and it is especially preferred that they have a service life greater than 12 months.
Certain embodiments may comprise a burner tip insert shaped substantially the same as but smaller than the burner tip and positioned in an internal space defined by the burner tip, the insert configured so that a cooling fluid may pass between internal surfaces of the burner tip and an external surface of the insert. In these embodiments a first or distal end of the first internal conduit would be attached to the insert.
In certain embodiments, one or both of the inner and outer walls of the burner tip body may extend beyond the first end of the third internal conduit, at least partially defining a mixing region for oxidant and fuel.
Conduits of burner bodies and associated components (such as spacers and supports between conduits, but not burner tips) used in SC burners, SCMs and processes of the present disclosure may be comprised of metal, ceramic, ceramic-lined metal, or combination thereof. Suitable metals include carbon steels, stainless steels, for example, but not limited to, 306 and 316 steel, 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 for burner body components. (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, Texas.) Use of high strength steel and other high strength materials may significantly reduce the conduit wall thickness required, reducing weight of the burners.
Suitable materials for the glass-contact refractory, which may be present in SC melters and downstream flow channels, and refractory burner blocks (if used), include fused zirconia (ZrO2), fused cast AZS (alumina-zirconia-silica), rebonded AZS, or fused cast alumina (Al2O3). The melter geometry and operating temperature, burner and burner tip geometry, and type of glass to be produced, may dictate the choice of a particular material, among other parameters.
The term “fluid-cooled” means use of a coolant fluid (heat transfer fluid) to transfer heat away from the burner exterior conduit and burner tip. Heat transfer fluids may be any gaseous, liquid, or some combination of gaseous and liquid compositions that functions or is capable of being modified to function as a heat transfer fluid. Gaseous heat transfer fluids may be selected from air, including ambient air and treated air (for example, air treated to remove moisture), inorganic gases, such as nitrogen, argon, and helium, organic gases such as fluoro-, chloro- and chlorofluorocarbons, including perfluorinated versions, such as tetrafluoromethane, and hexafluoroethane, and tetrafluoroethylene, and the like, and mixtures of inert gases with small portions of non-inert gases, such as hydrogen. Heat transfer liquids may be selected from liquids that may be organic, inorganic, or some combination thereof, for example, salt solutions, glycol solutions, oils and the like. Other possible heat transfer fluids include steam (if cooler than the expected glass melt temperature), carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof with nitrogen. Heat transfer fluids may be compositions comprising both gas and liquid phases, such as the higher chlorofluorocarbons.
In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, burner tip 4 may be joined to burner body 6 using flanges. When joined in this way, critical design features are the thickness of the flange, the width of the flange, and the shape of the area surrounding the junction as this location is typically cooled with a coolant fluid and pressure drop needs to be minimized. In addition, when using flanges, careful selection of gasket material is necessary to ensure sealing and the ability to expose the flange to an oxygen or oxygen-enriched environment. In addition, or in certain alternative embodiments, plastically deformable features may be positioned on one or more of the flange faces to enable joint sealing.
In other embodiments, brazing compounds and methods may be used to attach burner tip 4 to burner body 6. Brazing allows the joining of dissimilar metals and also allows for repairs to be made by removing the braze material. For these embodiments to be successful, the mating surfaces must be parallel or substantially so, and of sufficient overlap to ensure that the brazing material can properly flow between the portions of the burner tip and burner body being joined. This may be achieved in certain embodiments using a flange at right angles to both the burner tip walls 28, 30, and the conduits forming burner body 6. In other embodiments brazing may be successfully achieved by making the burner tip walls 28, 30 and conduits 14, 10 overlap with sufficient gaps to allow brazing material to enter the gaps.
Braze compounds, sometimes referred to as braze alloys, to be useful in embodiments of the present disclosure, must have liquidus and solidus temperatures above the highest temperature of the burner tip. The highest temperature of the burner tip will be a temperature equal to the melt temperature existing in the SCM reduced by the flow of coolant through the burner tip, as well as by the flow of combustion gases through the burner tip. The highest temperature of the burner tip during normal operating conditions depends on the type of glass being made, which makes the selection of braze alloy not a simple matter. For Na—Ca—Si soda-lime window glass (Glass 1), typical melt temperature may range from about 1275° C. to about 1330° C.; for Al—Ca—Si E glass having low sodium and zero boron (Glass 2), the melt temperature may range from about 1395° C. to about 1450° C.; for B—Al—Si glass, zero sodium, zero potassium, high Si (Glass 3), the melt temperature may be about 1625° C.; and for B—Al—Ca—Si E glass used for reinforcement fiber (Glass 4), the melt temperature maybe about 1385° C. This information was taken from Rue, D., “Energy Efficient Glass Melting—The Next Generation Melter”, p. 63, GTI Project Number 20621, March, 2008 (U.S. Dept. of Energy). Based on these temperatures, and assuming a drop in burner tip temperature of 300° C. due to coolant and gas flow through the burner tip without the protective cap, Table 1 lists the possible braze alloys that may be used.
1PALORO, PALNI, and PALNIRO are registered trademarks, and PALCO is a trademark of Morgan Technical Ceramics and/or Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc.
2From Internet website of Morgan Technical Ceramics and The Morgan Crucible Company plc, England
In yet other embodiments, burner tip walls and conduits 14, 10 may be threaded together, in certain embodiments accompanied by a sealant surface of flange upon which sealants, gaskets or O-rings may be present. Threaded joints may be straight or tapered such as NPT. In certain threaded embodiments the sealing surfaces of burner tip walls 28, 30 may be malleable enough compared to conduits 14, 10 to deform and form their own seals, without sealants, gaskets, or O-rings.
In still other embodiments, burner tip walls 28, 30 may be interference or “press” fit to their respective conduit 14, 10 of burner body 6. In these embodiments, the walls and/or conduits are machined to sufficiently close tolerances to enable deformation of one or both surfaces as the two parts are forcefully joined together.
In yet other embodiments, burner tip walls 28, 30 may be friction welded together.
In these embodiments, either the burner tip walls or burner body conduits, or both, may be spun and forced into contact until sufficient temperature is generated by friction to melt a portion of either or both materials, welding walls 28, 30 to conduits 14, 10, respectively. These embodiments may include one or more additional metals serving as an intermediate between walls 28, 30 and conduits 14, 10 to facilitate friction welding.
In using burners in SCMs of the present disclosure, a cooling fluid is made to flow through first and second annuli in the burner body, while flowing an oxidant or fuel into one or more inlet ports and through the third annulus defined by the second and third internal conduits, while either fuel or oxidant flows through the substantially concentric central third internal conduit. The burner body and burner tip body are configured such that flow of oxidant fuel causes the oxidant to intersect flow of the fuel in a mixing region at least partially defined by a generally central burner tip flow passage, combusting at least some of the fuel in the mixing region to form a flame and combustion products, and directing the flame and/or combustion products into solid and/or partially molten glass forming materials above the mixing region.
Burner tips described herein may be made using a variety of processes, including molding, machining, net-shape cast (or near-net shape cast) using rapid prototype (RP) molds and like processes. The matching or substantially matching burner tip inserts may similarly be RP molded and cast of the same or substantially similar shape, thereby ensuring proper cooling water velocity just under the surface of the burner tip material (inside the crown and inner and outer walls of the burner tips). Net-shape or near-net shape casting methods of making a variety of molds for producing a variety of complex products are summarized in patents assigned to 3D Systems, Inc., Rock Hill, S.C., U.S.A., for example U.S. Pat. No. 8,285,411.
In general, central internal conduit 15 may have an inner diameter (ID) ranging from about 1 inch up to about 5 inches (2.5 cm to 13 cm), or from about 2 inches up to about 4 inches (5 cm to 10 cm). Other conduits are sized accordingly.
The total quantities of fuel and oxidant used by burners 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 various burner 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 burner tip; 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 possible burner plugging, 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 an SCM 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. The pressure in mixing region 150 of burners in accordance with the present disclosure should not exceed about 10 psig (170 kPa absolute pressure).
Additionally, certain burner 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 conduit 15, in addition to a secondary or tertiary oxidant injection in the third annulus.
SC burners and methods of the present disclosure are intended to be used, for example, to replace combustion burners in existing SCMs, and/or to be used as the main source of energy in new SCMs.
Certain SCMs and method embodiments of this disclosure may include fluid-cooled panels such as disclosed in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/817,754, filed Jun. 17, 2010, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,769,992, issued Jul. 8, 2014. In certain system and process embodiments, the SCM may include one or more adjustable flame submerged combustion burners comprising one or more oxy-fuel combustion burners, such as described in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No 13/268,028, filed Oct. 7, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,875,544, issued Nov. 4, 2014. In certain systems and processes, the SCM may comprise a melter exit structure designed to minimize impact of mechanical energy, such as described is Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/458,211, filed Apr. 27, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,145,319, issued Sept. 29, 2015. In certain systems and processes, the flow channel may comprise a series of sections, and may comprise one or more skimmers and/or impingement (high momentum) burners, such as described in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No 13/268,130, filed Oct. 7, 2011, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,021,838 issued May 5, 2015; Ser. No. 13/493,170, filed Jun. 11, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,707,739, issued Apr. 29, 2014; and reissue Application Ser. No. 14/807 494 filed July 23, 2015. Certain systems and processes of the present disclosure may utilize measurement and control schemes such as described in Applicant's patent application Ser. No. 13/493,219, filed Jun. 11, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,096,453, issued Aug. 4, 201.5, and/or feed batch densification systems and methods as described in Applicant's co-pending application Ser. No. 13/540,704, filed Jul. 3, 2012. Certain SCMs and processes of the present disclosure may utilize devices for delivery of treating compositions such as disclosed in Applicant's patent application Ser. No. 13/633,998, filed Oct. 3, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,973,405, issued Mar. 10, 2015.
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, Section F, unless “means for” is explicitly recited together with an associated function. “Means for” clauses are intended to cover the structures, materials, and acts described herein as performing the recited function and not only structural equivalents, but also equivalent structures.
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