EP0592717A1 - Brûleur opérant au gaz du type à prémélange - Google Patents

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EP0592717A1
EP0592717A1 EP92117673A EP92117673A EP0592717A1 EP 0592717 A1 EP0592717 A1 EP 0592717A1 EP 92117673 A EP92117673 A EP 92117673A EP 92117673 A EP92117673 A EP 92117673A EP 0592717 A1 EP0592717 A1 EP 0592717A1
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Manfred Dr. Aigner
Robin Mc Millan
Pirmin Schiessel
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ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D11/00—Burners using a direct spraying action of liquid droplets or vaporised liquid into the combustion space
    • F23D11/36—Details
    • F23D11/40—Mixing tubes; Burner heads
    • F23D11/402—Mixing chambers downstream of the nozzle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/02—Premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air upstream of the combustion zone
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/46—Details
    • F23D14/62—Mixing devices; Mixing tubes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/46—Details
    • F23D14/70—Baffles or like flow-disturbing devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D17/00—Burners for combustion simultaneously or alternately of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel
    • F23D17/002—Burners for combustion simultaneously or alternately of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel gaseous or liquid fuel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2900/00—Special features of, or arrangements for combustion apparatus using fluid fuels or solid fuels suspended in air; Combustion processes therefor
    • F23C2900/07002—Premix burners with air inlet slots obtained between offset curved wall surfaces, e.g. double cone burners
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D2203/00—Gaseous fuel burners
    • F23D2203/007—Mixing tubes, air supply regulation

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  • the invention relates to a gas-operated premix burner for the combustion chamber, for example of a gas turbine, in which the fuel injected via a plurality of nozzles is intensively mixed with the combustion air prior to ignition within a premixing chamber, the nozzles being arranged around a burner axis.
  • Combustion chambers for gas turbines based on premix burners are known, for example from EP-B1 29 619.
  • a premixing / pre-evaporation process with a large excess of air takes place within a number of tubular elements between the injected fuel and the compressor air, before the actual combustion process downstream of one Flame holder takes place. With this measure, the emission values of pollutants from combustion can be significantly reduced.
  • the invention tries to avoid all these disadvantages. It is based on the task of creating a measure by means of which the combustion chamber can be operated as close as possible to the lean extinguishing limit, ie in the area in which practically no NO x is produced.
  • this is achieved in a premix burner of the type mentioned at the outset in that in order to influence the fuel profile at the burner outlet in a targeted manner, the fuel concentration in the region of the burner axis is greater than the average fuel concentration in the burner outlet plane.
  • additional fuel nozzles are expediently provided in the area of the burner axis. It makes sense if these additional fuel nozzles can be fed via a separate fuel line in which a shut-off control valve is arranged.
  • the schematically shown premix burner is a so-called double-cone burner, as is known for example from EP-B1-0 321 809.
  • Such burners can be arranged, for example, in the dome-shaped end of an individual combustion chamber or in an annular combustion chamber.
  • the burner essentially consists of two hollow, conical partial bodies 11, 12 which are nested one inside the other in the direction of flow.
  • the respective central axes 13, 14 of the two partial bodies are offset from one another.
  • the adjacent walls of the two partial bodies form in their Longitudinal extension of tangential slots 15 for the combustion air which in this way reaches the premixing chamber 21 in the interior of the burner.
  • the burner is operated with gaseous fuel.
  • gas inflow openings 17 distributed in the longitudinal direction in the form of nozzles are provided in the region of the tangential slots in the walls of the two partial bodies. These nozzles are supplied for each partial cone from a manifold 18, which in turn is fed by the gas feed line 19.
  • the fuel control takes place via the control valve 20.
  • the mixture formation with the combustion air thus begins in the zone of the inlet slots 15.
  • a fuel concentration that is as homogeneous as possible is established over the applied cross-section.
  • a defined dome-shaped return flow zone is created at the burner outlet, at the tip of which the ignition takes place.
  • the required NO x limit values can be easily fallen below.
  • the stability limit is low due to the low flame temperature.
  • the range between ignitability and extinguishing is relatively narrow for the safe operation of the combustion chamber over the full load range.
  • the fuel concentration which is as homogeneous as possible is deliberately disrupted in such a way that in the area of the burner axis 10 in the outlet plane 22 of the burner there is a higher fuel concentration which ensures a stable flame.
  • additional fuel nozzles 23 are arranged in the region of the cone tip, accordingly at one point relatively little combustion air flows into the premixing chamber. They are supplied with gas via a separate fuel line 24. A control valve 25 is arranged in line 24 for fine adjustment of the gas quantity.
  • the additional amount of gas injected causes a premixed enrichment on the axis 10 of the burner.
  • At the burner outlet there is therefore an uneven distribution of fuel over the cross-section acted upon and thus zones with different excess air numbers.
  • the largely independent core flame generated in this way in the area of the burner axis is considerably more stable than the main flame surrounding it and produced with the evenly distributed fuel concentration.
  • NO x accumulation is still lower than with a burner piloted with a diffusion flame.
  • the decisive factor in any case is the improved extinguishing limit without a corresponding increase in NO x .
  • This stabilization aid in the form of the unevenly distributed but premixed fuel distribution can be switched off in operating areas in which it is not necessary by simply shutting off the control valve 25.
  • the new measure which in the majority of the operating area guarantees a mode of operation at the extinguishing limit, means that the NO x values of 20 ppm that can be achieved today can certainly be significantly undercut.
  • the invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiment shown and described.
  • the "detuned" fuel profile in the burner outlet level could also be achieved by unevenly dividing the injection nozzles within the burner. Or through different nozzle cross-sections with even division. With all of these measures, the desired "richer" strands can be achieved in the mixture.
  • the invention is also not restricted to premixing burners of the double-cone type, in which the mixture is enriched in the burner axis, but can be used in all combustion chamber zones in which flame stabilization is generated by a prevailing air velocity field.
  • the double-cone burner shown could also be equipped with a fuel nozzle for liquid fuel located in the burner axis with regard to a mixed oil / gas mode of operation in the cone tip. From this, the fuel can be injected into the hollow cone at a certain angle. The resulting conical liquid fuel profile is enclosed by the combustion air flowing in tangentially. The concentration of the fuel is continuously reduced in the axial direction due to the mixing with the combustion air.

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EP92117673A EP0592717B1 (fr) 1992-10-16 1992-10-16 Brûleur opérant au gaz du type à prémélange
DE59209209T DE59209209D1 (de) 1992-10-16 1992-10-16 Gasbetriebener Vormischbrenner
US08/120,086 US5482457A (en) 1992-10-16 1993-09-13 Gas-operated premixing burner
JP25813593A JP3553995B2 (ja) 1992-10-16 1993-10-15 ガス作動式のプレミックスバーナ
KR1019930021550A KR940009586A (ko) 1992-10-16 1993-10-16 가스 작동 프리믹싱 버너

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