EP0783089A2 - Brûleur sous forme d'un cÔne - Google Patents

Brûleur sous forme d'un cÔne Download PDF

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EP0783089A2
EP0783089A2 EP96810821A EP96810821A EP0783089A2 EP 0783089 A2 EP0783089 A2 EP 0783089A2 EP 96810821 A EP96810821 A EP 96810821A EP 96810821 A EP96810821 A EP 96810821A EP 0783089 A2 EP0783089 A2 EP 0783089A2
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outlet diffuser
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Klaus Dr. Döbbeling
Adnan Dr. Eroglu
Hans Peter Knöpfel
Wolfgang Dr. Polifke
Thomas Dr. Sattelmayer
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23CMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C7/00Combustion apparatus characterised by arrangements for air supply
    • F23C7/002Combustion apparatus characterised by arrangements for air supply the air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23CMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C15/00Apparatus in which combustion takes place in pulses influenced by acoustic resonance in a gas mass
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23DBURNERS
    • F23D17/00Burners for combustion simultaneously or alternately of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel
    • F23D17/002Burners for combustion simultaneously or alternately of gaseous or liquid or pulverulent fuel gaseous or liquid fuel
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23RGENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
    • F23R3/00Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel
    • F23R3/02Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the air-flow or gas-flow configuration
    • F23R3/04Air inlet arrangements
    • F23R3/10Air inlet arrangements for primary air
    • F23R3/12Air inlet arrangements for primary air inducing a vortex
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23RGENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
    • F23R3/00Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel
    • F23R3/28Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the fuel supply
    • F23R3/283Attaching or cooling of fuel injecting means including supports for fuel injectors, stems, or lances
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23RGENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
    • F23R3/00Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel
    • F23R3/28Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the fuel supply
    • F23R3/30Continuous combustion chambers using liquid or gaseous fuel characterised by the fuel supply comprising fuel prevapourising devices
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23CMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2900/00Special features of, or arrangements for combustion apparatus using fluid fuels or solid fuels suspended in air; Combustion processes therefor
    • F23C2900/07002Premix burners with air inlet slots obtained between offset curved wall surfaces, e.g. double cone burners

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  • the invention relates to a cone burner for gaseous and / or liquid fuels, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • EP-B1-0321809 discloses a double-cone burner suitable for the combustion of gaseous and / or liquid fuels.
  • This burner consists of two hollow partial cone bodies that complement one another and have tangential air inlet slots.
  • a line for gaseous fuel is arranged at the radial end of each air inlet slot. The gaseous fuel is therefore mixed into the tangentially flowing combustion air within the air inlet slots, specifically in the entire interior of the burner. If liquid fuel is used, it is injected into the burner interior via a centrally arranged nozzle.
  • a central backflow zone of the combustion mixture is formed.
  • an average fuel profile over the burner cross-section has already been achieved on average.
  • the combustion mixture is ignited at the top of the return flow zone, so that a stable flame front is created there.
  • the sudden expansion of the area to the combustion chamber also creates an outer recirculation area, which also contributes to flame stabilization.
  • the fuel concentration is reduced in the axial direction by the tangentially introduced combustion air, so that a well-premixed fuel mixture is created.
  • gaseous fuel is used, the distance from the mixing points of the fuel arranged in the downstream region of the burner to the flame is only very small. For this reason, the fuel mixture present there, which has not yet been completely homogenized in terms of time and location, leads to increased production of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide.
  • the invention tries to avoid all of these disadvantages. It is based on the task of creating a cone burner for gaseous and / or liquid fuels which has a reduced NOx and CO emission.
  • the partial cone bodies have a common outlet diffuser at their downstream end.
  • the partial cone bodies have a transition area to the outlet diffuser, in which the size of the air inlet slots decreases continuously in the direction of flow.
  • the outlet diffuser is circular and has no air inlet slots.
  • the cone burner now has a circular outlet cross-section to the combustion chamber, which means that, compared to the known double-cone burners, there is no need for cooling air for the sickles used there.
  • the outlet diffuser provides a stronger shielding of the reaction zone from the neighboring burners, which results in increased flame stability.
  • the diameter of the fuel supply decreases in the direction of flow in the transition area of the partial cone body to the outlet diffuser.
  • the gas perforation in the transition area is adjusted according to the local slot width and a uniform distribution of the gaseous fuel in the combustion air is achieved.
  • the outlet diffuser has a length of approximately 10 to 25 percent of the total length of the cone burner and has an outlet area which is not greater than 1.3 times a cross-sectional area of the double cone part formed by the partial cone bodies at the beginning of the transition region .
  • Such a relatively short diffuser results in a small boundary layer thickness, so that the flame does not kick back in the boundary layer.
  • the outlet diffuser has an opening angle which increases continuously in the direction of flow and which initially corresponds to the cone angle of the burner and is continuously larger downstream than this. This stabilizes the wall boundary layer and minimizes the risk of flow separation.
  • the drawing shows two exemplary embodiments of the invention using a double-cone burner connected to a combustion chamber.
  • the double-cone burner has a burner interior 6 which widens conically in the direction of flow 3. Tangential air inlet slots 7, 8 are formed between the partial cone bodies 1, 2.
  • a fuel line 9, 10 for gaseous fuel 11 is arranged on each of the two partial cone bodies 1, 2 and there at the outer end of the air inlet slots 7, 8 (FIG. 1).
  • the fuel lines 9, 10 are provided with several, in the entire area of the air inlet slots 7, 8 evenly distributed and formed as openings fuel supply lines 12.
  • Both partial cone bodies 1, 2 each have a cylindrical starting part 13, 14, which are also arranged offset from one another.
  • the tangential air inlet slots 7, 8 are thus formed on the upstream side over the entire length of the double-cone burner.
  • a central liquid fuel nozzle 15 opening into the burner interior 6 is arranged.
  • Both partial cone bodies 1, 2 have a flat cone angle 16 formed in the range from 10 ° to 30 °.
  • a collar-shaped end plate 18 serving as anchoring for the partial cone bodies 1, 2 is arranged on the double-cone burner.
  • a number of bores 19 are formed, through which cooling air 20 for the crescent-shaped ends of the partial cone bodies 1, 2 located immediately upstream of the end plate 18 is discharged to the combustion chamber 17.
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a double-cone burner according to the invention. For the sake of clarity, only the essential components or the components which have been changed compared to the prior art shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 are shown.
  • the two half, hollow partial cone bodies 1, 2 of the burner complement one another to form a body 26 which is designed as a double cone part and which merges downstream into a common, circular outlet diffuser 27.
  • a transition region 28 from the double cone part 26 to the outlet diffuser 27 is formed.
  • the size of the air inlet slots 7, 8 decreases continuously in the direction of flow 3.
  • the burner cross section is continuously expanded, as a result of which the area through which the fuel mixture flows is also larger in the transition region 28 or at least remains constant.
  • the outlet diffuser 27 has a length 29 of approximately 15 percent of the total length 30 of the double-burner burner. Its exit surface 31 corresponds approximately to 1.3 times the cross-sectional area 32 at the beginning of the transition region 28. It has an opening angle 33 which is initially equal to the cone angle 16 of the burner and increases continuously in the direction of flow 3.
  • transition region 28 to the outlet diffuser 27 is shown enlarged in FIG. 4, as a result of which the arrangement and configuration of the fuel line 9 ending at the downstream end of the transition region 28 become clear.
  • FIGS. 5 to 7 show three partial cross sections of the double-cone part 26 in its transition region 28. The beginning of FIG. 5, the middle part in FIG. 6 and the end of the transition region 28 in FIG. 7 are shown. In the transition region 28, the diameter of the fuel line 9 and of the openings 12 in the flow direction 3 is reduced. At the end of the transition area 28, the air inlet slots 7, 8 and the openings 12 are completely closed. Neither air inlet slots 7, 8 nor fuel lines 9, 10 are arranged on the circular outlet diffuser 27 that adjoins downstream (FIG. 3).
  • the arrangement of the outlet diffuser 27 additionally provides time and space for the mixing in of the gaseous fuel 11 which is only introduced in the downstream region of the double-cone part 26. In this way, an optimal fuel concentration is achieved across the cross-section of the burner. When burning such a homogenized fuel mixture, the NOx and CO emissions are significantly reduced. A reduction in emissions is also achieved when using liquid fuel 21, but the advantage in this case is not that great.
  • the flow of the fuel mixture is slightly delayed in the outlet diffuser 27 and is therefore unstable at its center.
  • the central backflow zone 24 of the fuel mixture is formed and the conical fuel profile 22 bursts only in the vicinity of the downstream end of the outlet diffuser 27 reached in the combustion chamber 17.
  • the boundary layer in its interior does not detach, so that a stable flame front 25 can advantageously only be formed downstream of the double-cone burner.
  • the outlet diffuser 27 has an opening angle 34, which is formed equal to the cone angle 16 of the burner (FIG. 8). Due to the simple, straight shape of the outlet diffuser 27, this double-cone burner can be manufactured much lighter and cheaper.
  • a cooling air baffle is outside the combustion chamber wall 35 36 arranged, which extends upstream to the outlet diffuser 27 and ends at the downstream end of the air inlet slots 7, 8.
  • the outlet diffuser 27 is cooled from the outside with cooling air flowing back in the space between the combustion chamber wall 35 and the cooling air baffle 36, the latter finally opening into a plenum 37 formed upstream of the burner. Because of this convective cooling of the outlet diffuser 27, the operational safety is further improved compared to the first exemplary embodiment.

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EP96810821A 1995-12-27 1996-11-25 Brûleur sous forme d'un cône Expired - Lifetime EP0783089B1 (fr)

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