Patent Grant
10196294
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of submerged combustion melters, submerged combustion burners and burner panels, and methods of use, particularly for melting glass-forming materials, mineral wool forming materials, rock wool forming materials and other non-metallic inorganic materials.
A submerged combustion melter (SCM) may be employed to melt glass batch and/or waste glass materials to produce molten glass, or may melt minerals or rock feedstock to make mineral or rock wool, by passing oxygen, oxygen-enriched mixtures, or air along with a liquid, gaseous and/or particulate fuel (some of which may be in one or more of the feedstock materials), directly into a molten pool of glass or other material, usually through burners submerged in a turbulent melt pool. The introduction of high flow rates of products of combustion of the oxidant and fuel into the molten material, and the expansion of the gases during submerged combustion (SC), cause rapid melting of the feedstock or portions thereof and much turbulence and foaming.
In the context of SCMs, SC burners are predominately water-cooled, nozzle mix designs and may avoid premixing of oxidant and fuel for safety reasons due to the increased reactivity of using oxygen or oxygen-enriched oxidants as the oxidant versus air. Nevertheless, certain submerged combustion burners employ a smooth exterior surface, half-toroid metallic burner tip of the same or similar material as the remainder of the burner, where the fuel and oxidant begin mixing just after escaping the burner tip. When using such burners in an SCM for the manufacture of glass or other molten materials, the burner tip is placed in an extreme environment. The burner tip may be exposed to corrosive oxidants, fuels, and/or combustion products, high temperature direct contact with molten and/or unmelted materials, internal pressure from water or other coolant, vaporization of coolant within the burner tip, thermal cycling, and the like. As a result, it has been determined that thermal fatigue resistance, high melting point, high temperature corrosion/oxidation resistance, high temperature structural strength, and ability to join/fabricate are some of the key requirements for designing next generation SC burners.
Due to these requirements, noble metal (sometimes referred to as precious metal) alloys have become the focus. However, being expensive alloys, it is not presently economical to fabricate the entire burner using these materials, and it would be advantageous to eliminate use of noble metals altogether. Because of this, up until now the burner designer was left with the challenge of determining how to best attach the non-noble metal portion of the burner to the metal tip (noble metal or non-noble metal) without sacrificing other concerns, such as good mechanical strength, coolant leak proofing, and noble metal recovery, if used. It would be an advance in the submerged combustion melter art to avoid some or all of these issues, and prolong the run-length or campaign length of submerged combustion melters.
In accordance with the present disclosure, submerged combustion melters (SCM) are described having a floor, a roof or ceiling, and a wall connecting the floor and roof, the floor or wall (or section of either of these) having at least one SC burner, an SC burner cover material, and a cooled base (in certain embodiments, a water-cooled based). In instances where molten foamy glass is produced by the SCM, the SC burner cover material may be a hard brick or moldable refractory, or glass batch or cullet based material, or mixture or layered combination thereof, that covers and protects the at least one SC burner from the molten glass. If another feedstock is being melted, such as basalt rock or mineral feedstock, the SC burner cover material may comprise a hard brick or moldable refractory, or crushed rock or mineral based material (or recycled versions thereof), or mixture or layered combination thereof. The SC burner cover material is applied so that tips of the SC burners are protected from the molten material (molten foamy glass, molten foamy rock, molten foamy mineral) while leaving at least one opening for combustion products to flow freely into the molten or semi-molten material from each SC burner. It will be recognized that “molten” material may include portions that are still solid or not yet dissolved into the molten material. Some advantages of this technique may include reduced thermal fatigue due to thermal cycling on the burner tips, and reduced flame impingement on the SC burner tips, especially during startup from flames from roof-mounted burners, but also from neighboring SC burners. Without the presence of the SC burner cover material, accretions may form on SC burner tips during operation of the SCM causing deflection of flames therefrom, and in extreme cases onto neighboring SC burners or the melter refractory.
One aspect of this disclosure is a submerged combustion burner panel comprising (or consisting essentially of, or consisting of):
Other burner panel embodiments, such as those including fluid-cooled protective members, and submerged combustion melters (SCM) comprising at least one burner panel of this disclosure, and methods of producing molten non-metallic inorganic materials such as molten glass, in the SCMs, are considered aspects of this disclosure. 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.
Submerged combustion burner panels, submerged combustion 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 drawings in which:
It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings are schematic in nature, may not be to scale, and that
In the following description, numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the disclosed burner panels, SCMs, 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. For example, wherever the term “comprising” is used, embodiments and/or components where “consisting essentially of” and “consisting of” are also explicitly disclosed herein and are part of this disclosure. An example of “consisting essentially of” may be with respect to the composition of a burner conduit: a conduit consisting essentially of carbon steel means there may be a minor portions or trace amounts of metals, oxides, and other chemical species that are noble metals, such chromium, platinum, and the like, and a conduit consisting essentially of noble metal may have trace amounts of iron, iron oxides, carbon, and other metal oxides. An example of “consisting of” may be a burner made up of components that are one or more carbon steels and no noble metals or ceramic materials, or conduits made up of only noble metals. Another example of “consisting essentially of” may be with respect to particulate feedstock that consists essentially of inorganic feedstock, meaning that a minor portion, perhaps up to 10, or up to 5, or up to 4, or up to 3, or up to 2, or up to 1 wt. percent may be organic. An example of methods and systems using the transition phrase “consisting of” includes those where only burners having liquid-cooled jackets are used, with no gas-cooled jackets, or vice versa. The term “comprising” and derivatives thereof is not intended to exclude the presence of any additional component, step or procedure, whether or not the same is disclosed herein. In order to avoid any doubt, all compositions, apparatus, systems, and methods claimed herein through use of the term “comprising” may include any additional component, step, or procedure unless stated to the contrary. In contrast, the term, “consisting essentially of” excludes from the scope of any succeeding recitation any other component, step or procedure, excepting those that are not essential to operability. The term “consisting of” excludes any component, step or procedure not specifically delineated or listed. The term “or”, unless stated otherwise, refers to the listed members individually as well as in any combination.
All references to the Periodic Table of the Elements herein shall refer to the Periodic Table of the Elements, published and copyrighted by CRC Press, Inc., 2003. Also, any references to a Group or Groups shall be to the Group or Groups reflected in this Periodic Table of the Elements using the IUPAC system for numbering groups. Unless stated to the contrary, implicit from the context, or customary in the art, all parts and percentages are based on weight and all test methods are current as of the filing date hereof. The acronym “ASTM” means ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, Pa., 19428-2959 USA. 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, 15835 Park Ten Pl, Houston, Tex. 77084.
All numbers, including degree angles, disclosed herein are approximate values, regardless whether the word “about” or “approximate” is used in connection therewith. They may vary by 1%, 2%, 5%, and sometimes, 10 to 20%. Whenever a numerical range with a lower limit, RL and an upper limit, RU, is disclosed, any number falling within the range is specifically disclosed. In particular, the following numbers within the range are specifically disclosed: R=RL+k*(RU−RL), wherein k is a variable ranging from 1% to 100% with a 1% increment, i.e., k is 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, . . . , 50%, 51%, 52%, . . . , 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 100%. Moreover, any numerical range defined by two R numbers as defined in the above is also specifically disclosed.
All U.S. 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, one drawback to present SC burners employing a metallic burner tip of the same or similar material as the remainder of the burner is that, when using such burners in an SCM for the manufacture of glass or other inorganic materials, the burner tip is placed in an extreme environment. One problem is that the tip of the burner is exposed to the extreme high temperatures of an oxy-gas flame when oxygen-enriched oxidants are used. Such flames, when deflected, can melt the burner tip. Using noble metals and alloys for burner tips presents the additional challenge of attaching the burner tip to the base metal of the remainder of the burner. The present application is devoted to resolving this challenge with a new approach to burner panel design for submerged combustion.
One technique of avoiding cracked or damaged crowns of fluid-cooled half-toroid burner tips has been to increase surface area and fatigue resistance of the crown by providing at least one physical convolution sufficient to increase surface area and fatigue resistance of the crown compared to a half-toroid crown of the same composition lacking the at least one physical convolution, such as disclosed in Applicant's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/785,327, filed Oct. 17, 2015, or a concave burner tip crown such as described in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 9,777,922, issued Oct. 3, 2017. The submerged combustion burner panels of the present disclosure have the added advantage that complicated burner tip crowns such as these may be unnecessary, although they may be employed in the submerged combustion panels of the present disclosure if already present, or where it is desired to minimize the amount of protective cover material.
Various terms are used throughout this disclosure. “Submerged” as used herein means that combustion gases emanate from combustion burners whose tips are submerged under the level of the molten glass or other molten material. The SC burners themselves installed in fluid-cooled combustion burner panels; the burner panels may form all or a section of the SCM floor, sidewall, roof, or in melter embodiments comprising more than one submerged combustion burner, any combination thereof (for example, two floor burner panels and one sidewall burner panel, or one burner panel forming the entire floor, and one roof burner panel). A “burner panel” is simply a panel equipped to emit fuel and oxidant, or in some embodiments only one of these (for example a portion of a burner panel may only emit fuel, while another burner panel portion emits only oxidant, and vice versa). “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 and 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, 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.
Burner panels of the present disclosure aim to solve the problem of short life of SC burners. In certain embodiments this may be accomplished by use of burner panels including fluid-cooled or non-fluid-cooled portions, where the non-fluid-cooled portion employs a protective material barrier on an external surface of the external-most burner conduit and burner tips of the SC burners, thus reducing the exposure of the external-most burner conduit and burner tip to extreme high temperatures as well as reducing the severity of extreme thermal cycling experienced by unprotected SC burner tips.
In certain embodiments, the burner panel may comprise (or consist of, or consist essentially of):
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective non-fluid cooled portion comprises a protective cover material applied to a major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface so that at least a circumferential and radial portion of the burner body and the outer wall and crown of the fluid-cooled burner tip are protected from molten material (for example, but not limited to molten foamy glass, molten foamy rock, molten foamy mineral), the cover material defining the at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter defined by a cover material inner wall.
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective cover material is applied to, stacked on, coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface so that tips of the SC burners are protected from the molten material (molten foamy glass, molten foamy rock, molten foamy mineral) while leaving the corresponding at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter (d2)≤(d1). Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective cover material comprises hard brick stacked onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective cover material comprises a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective cover material comprises glass batch or cullet based material, or mixture or layered combination thereof, combined with a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the protective cover material comprises basalt rock or mineral feedstock, or mixture or layered combination thereof, combined with a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface.
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the fluid-cooled portion of the panel body is a continuous flow submerged combustion melter cooling wall panel.
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise the burner tip crown and inner and outer walls comprising same or different corrosion resistant and fatigue resistant material, at least one of the corrosion and fatigue resistance being greater than material comprising the external conduit under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming, rock-forming, or mineral-forming materials. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein each fluid-cooled burner tip consists of one or more noble metals.
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein a top surface of the fluid-cooled burner crown is at a distance (d3) from the seam.
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the corresponding at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter (d2)≤(d1) has an inner surface angled away from a longitudinal axis through the fluid-cooled burner at an angle ranging from 0 degrees to about 45 degrees. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein a distal end of the one or more fuel conduits extends away from the seam a distance (d4)<(d3), and the interior surface defined by the protective non-fluid cooled portion extends above the burner tip crown a distance (d5), where a ratio of (d5):(d3) ranges from about 0.5 to about 2. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the at least one combustion products flow passage defines a conical passage having a cone angle (α) to a burner longitudinal axis (A) ranging from 0 to about 45 degrees. Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise wherein the at least one combustion products flow passage defines a cylindrical passage of constant diameter, and (d2)<(d1).
Certain burner panel embodiments may comprise those wherein the lower fluid-cooled portion and the upper non-fluid cooled portion are positioned in layers, with the lower fluid-cooled portion supporting one or more fluid-cooled SC burners therein and the layer or layers of protective non-fluid-cooled material.
In certain embodiments, the burner panel may comprise (or consist of, or consist essentially of):
In certain embodiments, the burner panel may include only SC burners consisting of one central fuel conduit, one concentric oxidant conduit of larger diameter than the central fuel conduit forming an annulus therebetween, the oxidant conduit forming an inner wall of a fluid-cooled exterior annulus, and a burner exterior conduit. Certain embodiments may include a burner insert in the fluid-cooled annulus. These embodiments may be paired with other panels supplying fuel or oxidant (as the case might be), the pair resulting in combustion of the fuel from one panel with the oxidant from the other panel.
In certain embodiments the burner panel may comprise a pre-disposed layer or layers of glass, ceramic, refractory, and/or refractory metal or other protective material as a protective skull over the non-fluid cooled body portion or layer. The layer or layers of protective material may or may not be the same as the material to be melted in the SCM.
In certain embodiments, the burner panel may include a pre-disposed layer or layers of glass, ceramic, refractory, and/or refractory metal or other protective material on surfaces of the through passage through the non-fluid-cooled portions of the burner panel body. The layer or layers of protective material may or may not be the same as the material to be melted in the SCM.
In certain burner panel embodiments, the protective non-fluid cooled portion may be installed and/or removed from the burner panel separately. In certain embodiments, the protective material of a burner panel may be removed from a position inside of an SCM, while the SC burners of the same burner panel may be removed from the burner panel from outside of an SCM.
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In each embodiment 100, 200, 300, and 320, the design is intended to protect the burner tip crowns 32, which is the position of highest temperature of the burners during SCM operation. The diameter (d2) may initially be constant, but over time during operation may broaden due to erosion. The rate of erosion may be controlled by selection of the material of non-fluid-cooled portion 112, or at least that portion forming through passages 126. For example, through passages 126 may be formed from a controllably erodible material that erodes at a faster or slow rate than the material of non-fluid-cooled portion 112. Such materials may include ceramics such as, but not limited to, alumina and silicon nitride, refractory materials such as, but not limited to, chrome-containing or zircon-based refractory metals, and noble metals, or mixtures or combinations thereof. A skull layer (not illustrated) of product being produced in the SCM may form on interior surface 132 and through passages 126 during operation of the SCM.
Submerged combustion melters within the present disclosure are not limited to that illustrated in
The initial raw material may be introduced into the melter on a batch, semi-continuous or continuous basis. In some embodiments, a feeder may introduce the initial raw material into the SCM. Other embodiments may include a slanted or angled feed chute in which large pieces of feed material (such as basalt or other material) may be fed and optionally pre-heated by out going melter exhaust without becoming fluidized, such as disclosed in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 9,815,726, issued Nov. 14, 2017. In some embodiments a “batch blanket” may form along the feed end sidewall. Feed port 110 may be positioned above the average glass melt level. The amount of the initial raw material introduced into the melter is generally a function of, for example, the capacity and operating conditions of the melter as well as the rate at which the molten material is removed from the melter.
The initial raw material feedstock may include any material suitable for forming molten inorganic materials, such as glass, such as, for example, limestone, glass, sand, soda ash, feldspar, basalt or other rock wool forming material, and mixtures thereof. In one embodiment, a glass composition for producing glass fibers is “E-glass,” which typically includes 52-56% SiO2, 12-16% Al2O3, 0-0.8% Fe2O3, 16-25% CaO, 0-6% MgO, 0-10% B2O3, 0-2% Na2O+K2O, 0-1.5% TiO2 and 0-1% F2. Other glass compositions may be used, such as those described in Applicant's published U.S. application 2008/0276652. The initial raw material can be provided in any form such as, for example, relatively small particles, or in the case of rock wool or mineral wool manufacture, in large pieces 5 cm or more in diameter.
As noted herein, submerged combustion burners and burner panels may produce violent turbulence of the molten inorganic material in the SCM and may result in sloshing of molten material, pulsing of combustion burners, popping of large bubbles above submerged burners, ejection of molten material from the melt against the walls and ceiling of melter, and the like. Frequently, one or more of these phenomena may result in undesirably short life of temperature sensors and other components used to monitor a submerged combustion melter's operation, making monitoring difficult, and use of signals from these sensors for melter control all but impossible for more than a limited time period. Processes and systems of the present disclosure may include indirect measurement of melt temperature in the melter itself, as disclosed in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 9,096,453, using one or more thermocouples for monitoring and/or control of the melter, for example using a controller. A signal may be transmitted by wire or wirelessly from a thermocouple to a controller, which may control the melter by adjusting any number of parameters, for example feed rate of a feedstock feeder may be adjusted through a signal, and one or more of fuel and/or oxidant flow rates may be adjusted via a signal, it being understood that suitable transmitters and actuators, such as valves and the like, are not illustrated for clarity.
Submerged combustion melters may include a melter exit structure for discharging the molten glass or similar material. A melter exit structure may be positioned generally downstream of the melter exit end, and may fluidly and mechanically connect the melter vessel to a molten material conditioning channel, or other channel or structure (not illustrated). Melter exit structures may comprise a fluid-cooled transition channel, having generally rectangular cross-section in certain embodiments, although any other cross-section would suffice, such as hexagonal, trapezoidal, oval, circular, and the like. Regardless of cross-sectional shape, the fluid-cooled transition channel is configured to form a frozen layer or highly viscous layer, or combination thereof, of material being melted on inner surfaces of the fluid-cooled transition channel and thus protect melter exit structure from the mechanical energy imparted from the melter vessel to the melter exit structure. A melter exit structure may in certain embodiments comprise an essentially rectangular, fluid-cooled, ceramic or metallic box having a length, a width, a height. In these embodiments, length may range from about 5 to about 50 percent, or from about 10 to about 40 percent, of the entire length of the melter apparatus. The width of melter exit structure may be the same as the width of the SCM, or may be less or more than the width of the SCM. The height may range from about 5 to about 50 percent, or from about 10 to about 40 percent, of the entire height of the melter apparatus, measured from floor to ceiling. Melter length, width and height depend primarily on the amount of raw material to be fed, the amount of molten material to be produced, and the desired throughputs mentioned herein.
Certain fluid-cooled burner panels of the present disclosure may include an overlapping refractory material layer on the non-fluid-cooled portion that is exposed to molten material. In certain embodiments the overlapping refractory material may comprise a seamless insert of dense chrome, molybdenum, or other dense ceramic or metallic material. The dense chrome or other refractory material may also be inserted into the melter exit structure and may provide a seamless transition form the melter vessel to a conditioning channel (not illustrated).
Submerged combustion burners useful in the SC melter apparatus described herein include those described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,539,034; 3,170,781; 3,237,929; 3,260,587; 3,606,825; 3,627,504; 3,738,792; 3,764,287; and 7,273,583, and Applicant's U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,875,544 and 9,032,760. SC burners such as described in Applicant's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 14/785,327; 14/785,325, 14/785,330; and Ser. No. 14/785,324, all filed Oct. 17, 2015 (the first featuring reduced stress and thermal fatigue of the top toroid shape, the second featuring Pt/Rh or Cu alloy based burners tips and attachment to the remainder of the burner, usually carbon steel; and the third featuring burners having improved fuel and oxidant mixing; and the fourth featuring a toroid burner tip and protective cap for same) may be used, although the protective material of the non-fluid-cooled portion is intended to reduce the need for exotic (and expensive) materials. Other SC burners that may be used include the SC burners described in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/904,662, filed Jan. 1, 2016 (featuring attaching a toroid burner tip to the body of the burner using interlocking rings) and U.S. Pat. No. 9,777,922, issued Oct. 3, 2017 (featuring a concave burner tip crown); Ser. No. 14/778,206, filed Sep. 18, 2015 (featuring a spin-formed or stamped burner tip); the SC burners and burner panels described in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 14/838,148 and 14/838,229, both filed Aug. 27, 2015; and the SC burners described in Applicant's U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/246,705, filed Aug. 25, 2016.
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 and/or burner panels. Melter apparatus having only wall-mounted, submerged-combustion burners or burner panels 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 and burner panels are oxy/fuel burners or oxy-fuel burner panels (where “oxy” means oxygen, or oxygen-enriched air, as described earlier), but this is not necessarily so in all embodiments; some or all of the submerged combustion burners or burner panels may be air/fuel burners. Furthermore, heating may be supplemented by electrical heating in certain embodiments, in certain melter zones.
Suitable materials for the non-fluid-cooled portion of panel bodies of burner panels, and burner conduits in certain embodiments, include fused zirconia (ZrO2), fused cast AZS (alumina-zirconia-silica), rebonded AZS, or fused cast alumina (Al2O3). The melter geometry and operating temperature, burner body panel geometry, and type of glass or other product 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 a burner or burner panel. Heat transfer fluids may be any gaseous, liquid, slurry, or some combination of gaseous, liquid, and slurry 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 and slurries may be selected from liquids and slurries that may be organic, inorganic, or some combination thereof, for example, water, 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.
Certain SCMs of this disclosure may comprise one or more non-submerged burners. Suitable non-submerged combustion burners may comprise a fuel inlet conduit having an exit nozzle, the conduit and nozzle inserted into a cavity of a ceramic burner block, the ceramic burner block in turn inserted into either the SCM roof or the SCM wall structure, or both the SCM roof and SCM wall structure. Downstream flow channels may also comprise one or more non-submerged burners.
In certain SCMs, one or more fuel and/or oxidant conduits in the SCM and/or flow channel(s) downstream thereof may be adjustable with respect to direction of flow of the fuel or oxidant or both. Adjustment may be via automatic, semi-automatic, or manual control. Certain system embodiments may comprise a mount that mounts the fuel or oxidant conduit in a burner panel of the SCM and/or flow channel comprising a refractory, or refractory-lined ball joint. Other mounts may comprise rails mounted in slots in the wall or roof. In yet other embodiments the fuel and/or oxidant conduits may be mounted outside of the melter or channel, on supports that allow adjustment of the fuel or oxidant flow direction. Useable supports include those comprising ball joints, cradles, rails, and the like.
Certain SCMs and method embodiments of this disclosure may include fluid-cooled panels such as disclosed in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 8,769,992. Certain systems and processes of the present disclosure may utilize measurement and control schemes such as described in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 9,096,453, and/or feed batch densification systems and methods as described in Applicant's co-pending U.S. Pat. No. 9,643,869, issued May 9, 2017. Certain SCMs and processes of the present disclosure may utilize devices for delivery of treating compositions such as disclosed in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 8,973,405.
Certain SCMs and process embodiments of this disclosure may be controlled by one or more controllers. For example, combustion (flame) temperature may be controlled by monitoring one or more parameters selected from velocity of the fuel, velocity of the primary oxidant, mass and/or volume flow rate of the fuel, mass and/or volume flow rate of the primary oxidant, energy content of the fuel, temperature of the fuel as it enters the burner panel, temperature of the primary oxidant as it enters the burner panel, temperature of the molten product, pressure of the primary oxidant entering the burner panel, humidity of the oxidant, burner panel geometry, combustion ratio, and combinations thereof. Certain SCMs and processes of this disclosure may also measure and/or monitor feed rate of batch or other feedstock materials, such as rock wool or mineral wool feedstock, glass batch, cullet, mat or wound roving and treatment compositions, mass of feed, and use these measurements for control purposes.
Oxidant and fuel conduits of burner panels 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. Use of high strength steel and other high strength materials may significantly reduce the conduit wall thickness required, reducing weight of the conduits and/or space required for conduits.
Protective materials for non-fluid-cooled portion 114 may comprise noble metals and/or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant materials, for example mixed into a refractory slurry that is then applied to the fluid-cooled portion as a moldable paste or slurry of protective material, or a thin (<0.5 inch, 1.3 cm) noble metal layer or layers may be applied over a refractory layer or layers (in other words, a 100 percent noble or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant material layer or layer), together forming the non-fluid-cooled portion of the panels. Suitable noble metals include 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. If mixed into a refractory slurry that is then applied to the fluid-cooled portion as a moldable paste or slurry of protective material, the noble or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant materials would not be present in quantities over an amount that would make their use exorbitantly expensive, and in most embodiments less than about 20 percent, or less than about 15 percent, or less than about 5 percent by weight. The noble or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant materials may be randomly or non-randomly applied; for example, a refractory layer nearer the molten material in the SCM may have a higher percentage of noble or other exotic corrosion and/or fatigue-resistant material than layers nearer the burner tips.
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 (or consisting 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, or consisting 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 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 burner panels 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. Preferably, burner panels will have a satisfactory service life of at least 12 months under conditions existing in a continuously operating SCM. As used herein the SCM may comprise 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 burner panels of this disclosure in either the floor, the roof, or 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 containing bubbles in the melting zone.
The total quantities of fuel and oxidant used by burner panels 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 panel embodiments of the present disclosure depends on the burner panel 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 panel; 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. Baffles may be provided extending from the roof, and/or in the melter exhaust stack, or transition region between the melter and stack, in order to safeguard against this. 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.
Embodiments disclosed herein include:
A: A submerged combustion burner panel, or section thereof, comprising (or consisting essentially of, or consisting of):
B: A submerged combustion burner panel, or section thereof, comprising (or consisting essentially of, or consisting of):
Embodiments A and B may have at least one or more of the following additional elements in any combination: Element 1: the protective non-fluid cooled portion comprises a protective cover material applied to a major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface so that at least a circumferential and radial portion of the burner body and the outer wall (30) and crown (32) of the fluid-cooled burner tip are protected from molten or partially molten material that may include foam (molten glass, molten rock, molten mineral), the cover material defining the at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter (d2) defined by a cover material inner wall (51); Element 2: the protective cover material is applied to, stacked on, coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface so that tips of the SC burners are protected from the molten material that may include foam (molten glass, molten rock, molten mineral) while leaving the corresponding at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter (d2)≤(d1); Element 3: the protective cover material comprises hard brick stacked onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface; Element 4: the protective cover material comprises a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface; Element 5: the protective cover material comprises glass batch or cullet based material, or mixture or layered combination thereof, combined with a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface; Element 6: the protective cover material comprises basalt rock or mineral feedstock, or mixture or layered combination thereof, combined with a moldable refractory coated on, troweled on, or poured onto the major surface of the fluid-cooled panel opposite the exterior surface; Element 7: the fluid-cooled portion of the panel body is a continuous flow submerged combustion melter cooling wall panel; Element 8: the burner tip crown (32) and inner (28) and outer (30) walls comprising same or different corrosion resistant and fatigue resistant material, at least one of the corrosion and fatigue resistance being greater than material comprising the external conduit (10) under conditions experienced during submerged combustion melting of glass-forming, rock-forming, or mineral-forming materials; Element 9: each fluid-cooled burner tip consists of one or more noble metals; Element 10: a top surface of the fluid-cooled burner crown is at a distance (d3) from the seam; Element 11: the corresponding at least one combustion products flow passage of diameter (d2)≤(d1) has an inner surface angled away from a longitudinal axis through the fluid-cooled burner at an angle ranging from 0 degrees to about 45 degrees; Element 12: a distal end of the one or more fuel conduits extends away from the seam a distance (d4)<(d3), and the interior surface defined by the protective non-fluid cooled portion extends above the burner tip crown a distance (d5), where a ratio of (d5):(d3) ranges from about 0.5 to about 2; Element 13: the at least one combustion products flow passage defines a conical passage having a cone angle (α) to a burner longitudinal axis (A) ranging from 0 to about 45 degrees; Element 14: the at least one combustion products flow passage defines a conical passage having a cone angle (β) to a burner longitudinal axis (A) ranging from 0 to about 45 degrees Element 15: the at least one combustion products flow passage defines a cylindrical passage of constant diameter, and (d2)<(d1).
All of embodiments A and B may be installed in an SCM, and all may be used in methods of making molten products (glass products, mineral products, rock products) using the SCM. All of the SCM embodiments may employ one or more heat recovery schemes described herein, alone or in combination.
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/or acts described herein as performing the recited function and not only structural equivalents, but also equivalent structures.
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