US3556059A - Two-pass furnace circuit arrangement for once-through vapor generator - Google Patents

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US3556059A
US3556059A US794629*A US3556059DA US3556059A US 3556059 A US3556059 A US 3556059A US 3556059D A US3556059D A US 3556059DA US 3556059 A US3556059 A US 3556059A
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  • a supercritical forced flow, once-through vapor generator comprising a radiantly heated rectangular furnace enclosure including a lower high-absorption burner zone and an upper gas exit, the generator further comprising a convection heat transfer area in gas flow communication with said gas exit.
  • the periphery of the furnace enclosure at least in the lower high'absorption burner zone is comprised of two upflow fluid passes in series, the first fluid pass comprising opposed front and rear wall panels of the enclosure and the second 156] References cited fluid pass comprising opposed sidewall panels of the enclo- UNITED STATES PATENTS sure, the enclosure being designed to limit the supercritical 2,416,053 2/1947 Grossman 122/235S fluid enthalpy pickup therein by utilizing the maximum per- 3,060,908 10/1962 Brister et a1. 122/235-C missible flue gas temperature at said gas exit for the fuel fired.
  • FIG.8 I I IIO O (D 11 3 G I C) I) l (I i C II I INVN ORS WALTER P60 2 GNO WILLIAM D STEVENS JAN L. FRIEDRICH PATENTED m 9
  • the present invention relates to vapor generators, and in particular to vapor generators of the once-through type.
  • the invention is particularly applicable to the "Benson" type once-through vapor generator design, and will be described with reference thereto. although it will be appreciated that the invention has broader application. such as with the Sulzer design or with the recirculation type of generator.
  • the invention also is particularly applicable to a supercritical once-through vapor generator.
  • a once-through vapor generator of the Benson" design is one wherein the fluid flow is forced through tubes of the generator without fluid recirculation.
  • the basic circuitry of the this "Benson" design consists of heated upflow tubes coupled to unheated downcomers. ln once-through vapor generators of past years, the fluid flow was transmitted frequently in at least a single first-flow pass defining the entire perimeter of the generator furnace enclosure walls, to passes making up the remainder of the furnace and convection enclosure circuitry of the generator, the convection enclosure area including superheating passes, and from there to a point of use, all of the passes being connected in series with each other.
  • the convec tion area usually extended from the top of the furnace enclosure, and burners for the generator were disposed near the bottom of either or both of the front and rear walls of the enclosure.
  • tubes in the center of a furnace enclosure wall may experience more heat absorption than tubes in the comer of the enclosure, resulting in unequal temperatures in the, periphery of the enclosure and an imbalance in the flow. This. imbalance, could result in a relatively stagnant flow in part of the enclosure, in turn quickly resulting in tube overheating.
  • a further proposal has been to divide the furnace enclosure into a plurality of parallel oriented upflow heated passes. each comprised of parallel tubes, with means to connect the passes in series and distribute the flow uniformly to the tubes of the passes.
  • Each pass has a fewer number of parallel tubes. and correspondingly less fluid enthalpy pickup reducing the likelihood of a flow upset in any one pass.
  • This design also makes possible higher fluid mass flow rates within the tubes, without fluid recirculation, yielding a more conservative lower tube metal temperature.
  • These parallel oriented upflow heated furnace passes connected in series, with unheated downcomers between the passes. adhere to the concept of the Benson" principle of design.
  • a factor which also complicates the use of the multipass design is the all-welded wall construction in which parallel finned tubes are welded together along their lengths to provide a gastight enclosure.
  • this construction has resulted in substantial savings in construction costs, eliminating the use of complex casing designs, it has meant that the passes must be arranged so that adjacent tubes are at roughly the same temperature to avoid fracture of the connections between the tubes, or of the tubes themselves, caused by thermal stresses resulting from the restrained growth of one tube relative to another during load changes in the generator.
  • a oncethrough supercritical forced flow vapor generator comprising a radiantly heated rectangular furnace enclosure including a lower high-absorption burner zone and an upper gas exit, the generator further comprising a convection heat transfer area in gas flow communication with said gas exit; the periphery of the furnace enclosure at least in the lower high-absorption burner zone being comprised of two upflow fluid passes in series, the first fluid pass comprising opposed front and rear wall panels of the enclosure, the second 'fluid pass comprising opposed sidewall panels of the enclosure; the enclosure being designed to limit the supercritical fluid enthalpy pickup therein by utilizing a flue gas temperature at said gas exit of substantially the maximum permissible for the fuel fired.
  • maximum permissible flue gas temperature By the term maximum permissible flue gas temperature”, it is meant the upper design limit for the flue gas temperature at the furnace gas exit.
  • the particular design value for this limit varies depending primarily upon the fuel fired, but for a particular fuel, and defined conditions, the limit generally is fixed and well known. In the case of a gas-fired unit, the accepted limit is about 2800 F, above which the residence time in the furnace may be so short as to preclude complete combustion in the furnace; and above which the cost for alloy tubes in; for instance, a superheater circuit adjacent the gas exit becomes economically unattractive.
  • vanadium attack on metals in the convection zone sets the limit at about 2650 F,
  • the limit is even lower, less than about 2350 F., depending on the grade of coal, above which slagging at the flue gas exit can occur. It is of course understood that the above values may vary somewhat depending upon a number of factors, and that these values are only representative.
  • the generator furnace surface is sized so that the furnace heat absorption, or fluid enthalpy pickup within the furnace circuits is correspondingly small. Limiting the total furnace circuit enthalpy pickup has the result that in a twopass furnace circuit the enthalpy pickup for each pass is sufficiently low to obtain stable circuit characteristics i.e., less likelihood of a flow imbalance in the presence of a heat absorption upset.
  • the furnace geometry defined as distribution of flow passes and selection of tube sizes, can be set so as to obtain the high mass flow rates necessary to render the furnace circuitry relatively insensitive to flow imbalance; that is. sufficient mass flow to obtain proper cooling of the tubes even where considerable heat absorption upset and flow imbalance occur.
  • the log-mean temperature difference between the heating flue gases and supercritical fluid in the convection superheater and reheater is increased, correspondingly increasing the efficiency of heat transfer for these surfaces.
  • the burners for the generator are disposed in both the opposite front and rear walls of the first pass of the furnace enclosure.
  • the coolest tubes face and are adjacent to the burners,for maximum safety against tube overheating.
  • the furnace circuitry comprises a buffer circuit between the front, rear and sidewall panels of the first and second passes including a plurality of parallel vertically oriented tubes disposed in the comers of the furnace enclosure between the panels.
  • Header means are provided to direct a sufficient portion of the flow from the inlet ends of both the first and second passes to the buffer circuit tubes so that the average temperature in the buffer circuit is maintained intermediate the temperatures in the first and second passes. In this way, the affects of thermal stresses in the all-welded enclosure between adjacent tubes of the first and second passes are minimized.
  • a generator circuit design in which the disadvantages of prior designs are overcome; and in particular a generator design of simplified concept which is functionally equivalent or superior to past designs.
  • functionally equivalent it is meant a circuit design which has a minimal fluid enthalpy pickup per pass and which by virtue of furnace pass geometry (including pass distribution and tube sizing) is relatively insensitive to flow imbalance caused by heat upset.
  • FIG. I is a section elevation view of a vapor generator in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view illustrating the furnace circuits and construction ofthe generator of FIG. 1 in accordance with the present invention
  • FIG. 2A is a perspective partial view further illustrating the furnace circuits and construction of the generator in accordance with an embodiment of the invention:
  • FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating the concepts of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of a tube wall section in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 4A is an elevation view of a furnace tube wall surface in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. Si is a schematic perspective view of a header and a downcomer manifold arrangement in accordance with the invention taken at the top of the furnace portion of the generator of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic plan view looking upwardly taken of the bottom of the furnace portion of the generator of FIG. I,
  • FIG. 7 is a further schematic plan view taken at the top of the furnace portion of the generator of FIG. I. further illustrating the concepts of the present invention
  • FIG. 8 is an elevation front wall view of the furnace portion of the generator illustrating an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 8A is an enlarged section view of a portion of the generator of FIG. 8;
  • FIGS. 9 and 10 are graphs of fluid temperature vs fluid enthalpy illustrating concepts of the invention.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 are schematic elevation and section views illustrating a further embodiment in accordance with the invention.
  • the vapor generator in accordance with the present invention is broadly indicated with the letter A, and comprises a vertically extending rectangular shaped radiant furnace portion B having an upper exit end C to which is connected to a horizontally extending and downwardly extending convection area D.
  • Burners E are disposed in the furnace portion immediately above a bottom hopper F.
  • the flow of hot gases is upwardly in the furnace portion through the convection area of the generator to the generator outlet end G and from there to a conventional air heater H for heat exchange between the hot gases and incoming air for the burners.
  • the present invention is concerned primarily with the flow circuitry for the high-pressure fluid which is in heat exchange with the burner gases.
  • the vapor generator furnace portion is an upright rectangular enclosure 12 defined by front and rear walls 14 and 16 between which are disposed sidewalls l8 and 20, the enclosure extending vertically from the bottom hopper F to a roof 22 (FIG. 1).
  • the rear wall 16 is divided or branched to provide an exit screen 24 leading to the convection area D of the generator,'and a floor 26 leading to a second screen 28, these last two items with the exit screen 24 constituting an enclosure which encompasses tubes of a finishing superheater, item 30, to be described.
  • the generator comprises an intermediate vestibule portion 32 followed by a downwardly extending convection enclosure 34.
  • the vestibule enclosure in addition to floor 26 comprises opposed sidewalls, not shown in FIGS. I and 2, whereas the convection enclosure 34 comprises a partition wall 36, a front wall panel 40 extending downwardly from the floor 26, a rear wall panel 42, and sidewalls (also not shown).
  • the partition wall 36 divides the convection enclosure 34 into front and rear gas passes 48 and 50.
  • the roof 22 extends not only above the furnace enclosure 14 but also above the vestibule 32 and convection enclosure 34.
  • a primary superheater 52 within the enclosure rear pass 50; the finishing superheater 30 encompassed by the furnace second pass screen tubes 24 and 28; plus banks of reheater tubes 54 in the enclosure front pass 48.
  • Economizer tubes 56 are disposed in both passes 48 and 50, beneath the primary superheater and reheater banks, and completing the circuitry is a radiant platen superheater 55 positioned in the furnace upper portion adjacent to and in front of the furnace exit screen 24.
  • a membrane-type wall construction illustrated in detail in FlG. 4 will be used substantially throughout in walls of the generator, formed by welding together a plurality of finned tubes 57 along their lengths so that the enclosures are substantially gastight.
  • FIG. 3 The flow circuitry in accordance with the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 3. From the economizer 56, a suitable downcomer 58 conveys the flow to inlet headers 60, 62 of the furnace front and rear wall panels l4, 16 for parallel flow therein. As shown in FIG. 2, the headers 60, 62 and panels 14,
  • I 16 are substantially coextensive with the furnace front and rear walls, these panels constituting a furnace first-flow pass.
  • outlet headers 60a, 62a for the front and rear wall panels at a third header 62b for the second screen tubes 28 is shown in FIG. 2
  • fan-mix connection 64 to be described
  • the flow is transmitted to suitable downcomers 66 on opposite sides of the generator and from there to lower inlet headers 68, 70 for the furnace sidewalls 18, 20.
  • the flow is then parallel upwardly through the furnace sidewalls to upper outlet headers 68a, 70a, exiting via a fan-mix arrangement 72 to downcomers 74, 76 for the heat recovery area.
  • the flow is evenly distributed for parallel flow through the vestibule sidewalls 38, 38a, the convection enclosure 34, front and sidewalls 40, 44, 46, and the partition wall 36, exiting via collecting headers 78 for flow into the roof 22 of the generator and heat recovery area rear wall 42. From the rear wall 42, the flow is in succession through the primary superheater 52, the platen superheater 55, and the finishing superheater 30 to a point of use.
  • each pass comprises pairs of opposed walls.
  • the panels of each pass are in similar absorptionzones, the burners being disposed in the opposite front and rearwall first pass panels 14 and 16.
  • Each wall panelof pass 1 will thereby be subjected to roughly the same radiant heat input from the burner arrangement.
  • the sidewall panels of pass2 because of their symmetrical location relative to the burners will receive roughly equal absorption.
  • F IGS. 2A and 3 illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the corners of the furnace enclosure are made up of tubes of a buffer circuit, comprising four corner panels 80, 82, 84, 86 (only two of which are shown in FIG. 2A) interposed between the front, rear and side panels 14-20 of the first and second passes.
  • Flow into the buffer circuit is accomplished by providing inlet headers 85 substantially coextensive with these corner panels, and transmitting a portion of the flow from the economizer in downcomer 58 (leading to the furnace front and rear wall headers) via four connections 88 (FIG. 3) to the buffer circuit inlet headers 85.
  • a portion of the flow transmitted to the inlet headers 68. 70 for the sidewall panels, from downcomezrs 66, is also transmitted to the inlet headers for the buffer circuit panels via four connections 90 (FIG. 3) for mixing with the flow from downcomers 58 and connections 88.
  • the flow can be balanced between these panels and the first and second pass panels.
  • the temperature at the same elevation in passes l and 2 may be in excess of F. apart, and closer to 200 F. apart, with corresponding differences in expansion in the pass tubes if they were free to expand. These restrained expansion differences result in thermal stresses which are at least in part reduced by the use of the buffer circuit panels.
  • Prior Pat. No. 3,344,777 applied for by Walter P. Gorzegno and assigned to assignee of the present application, describes the concept of a buffer circuit in detail but the improvement of the present invention lies in the fact that the furnace pass circuits occupy substantially the full expanses of the front. rear and sidewalls of the all-welded furnace enclosure, and the buffer circuit panels are disposed in the critical corner areas.
  • the buffer circuit corner panels may each comprise an expanse (in the furnace periphery) of about 1 /2 feet of the sidewalls and about five tubes of the front and rear walls, the corners suitably beveledto reduce corner stresses and heat absorption in the corners. Beveling the corners may be accomplished by making the sidewall horizontal dimensions slightly less than the spacing between the front and rear walls so that the latter bend inwardly, at an angle of about 30, to the sidewalls.
  • FIG. 4A A solution in accordance with the present invention, is illustrated in FIG. 4A.
  • the furnace zone is divided into a lower high temperature area B which extends from near the bottom of the furnace to an elevation above the burners, and a lower temperature area B" constituting the remainder of the furnace above the area B to the roof 22.
  • the tube diameters are increased in going from the higher temperature furnace burner zone (area B) to the lower temperature upper furnace zone (area B11)-
  • the front and rear walls or first pass will have l /a-inch OD tubes in the burner zone changing at an elevation about two-thirds of the height of the furnace to 1 zfi-inch OD tubes.
  • the sidewalls or second pass will have l%- inch OD tubes changing at about the same elevation to 1%- inch OD tubes; the center-to-center distance in all the walls being 1% inches.
  • the tube diameters may also be increased near the top, for instance from 1% inches to 1% inches.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates the fan-mix connections 64 between the outlet headers for the front and rear furnace walls and the downcomers leading to the furnace sidewalls.
  • These outlet headers are shown as three parallel members 60a, 62a, 62b disposed at the top of the furnace enclosure 12 into which the tubes of the front wall 14 and rear walls screens 24, 28 extend. It will be recalled that although the tubes of the front wall extend vertically upwardly into the header 60a, the tubes of the rear wall are divided into the exit screen panel 24 and a second panel 28.
  • a downcomer manifold 92 extends horizontally across the top of the furnace. positioned slightly above the horizontal plane of the headers 60a 62a. 62b and in a vertical plane between the planes of the front and rear walls, the downcomer manifold having a length which is substantially coextensive with the furnace width.
  • This downcomer manifold is connected at opposite ends to the downcomers 66 which lead into the inlet headers 68 and 70 for the second pass sidewall panels.
  • connections 94 between the exit screen header 62a and the downcomer manifold 92 are few in number and lead more or less directly into the downcomer manifold, except that the end connections 94a are crossed to shift the flow from one side to the other of the generator.
  • the reason for the small number of connections 94 is that the flow from the exit screen header will be relatively small.
  • the connections 96 and 98 respectively are arranged to disperse and mix the flow.
  • the fluid collected at one side or end of the front wall header 60a will be dispersed in part to the opposite side of the downcomer manifold, and vice versa for the fluid collected at the opposite end of the header.
  • the fluid collected in the ends of the header 60a will be dispersed in part to the center of the manifold; and vice versa, fluid collected in the center of the header will be dispersed in part to the ends of the manifold. Further there will be flows, from the header 60a directly across to corresponding parts of the manifold.
  • connection 96a from one side and one end of the front wall panel header 60a will extend towards the downcomer manifold 92 and across the top of the furnace to connect with the downcomer manifold near the center of the latter, but on an opposing side.
  • the next connection 96b in the direction of the header center will connect directly across with the manifold, whereas connection 96c further centered on the header will connect with the manifold at a point further removed from the manifold center than the connection 96a; so that ultimately, a connection 96d which extends from near the center of the outlet header will extend across the furnace to near the end of the downcomer manifold.
  • the same fan-mix arrangement is provided between the downcomer manifold and the second screen header 62b, the connections having essentially the same pattern as those between the front wall header and the downcomer manifold.
  • the downcomers 66 leading from the downcomer manifold along the sides of the furnace to the inlet headers 68 and 70 at the bottom of the furnace are provided with fanned connections 102 and 104 (FIG. 6) which lead to these sidewall inlet headers connecting to the latter at spaced points along the headers.
  • FIG. 6 also illustrates the buffer circuit arrangement, showing inlet headers 85a and 85b ofthe circuit in each of four corners, and connections 88 and 90 from downcomers leading to the first and second passes, respectively.
  • FIG. 7 the fan-mix connections (72, FIG. 3) between the outlet headers 68a and 70a of the second pass sidewall panels (which headers also receive the flow from the buffer circuit panels) and the downcomers 74 and 76 are illustrated.
  • the downcomer manifold is split into two manifolds 74a and 76a, and the connections 72 from each header will alternately lead to the two downcomer manifolds.
  • each of the manifolds receives half of the flow from each of the two headers thereby assuring equal enthalpy levels at the inlet ends of the successive flow passes.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a simplified design which is functionally equivalent or superior to past designs.
  • a stable twopass furnace design can be constructed without violating conservative design criteria. Two factors contribute to this stability, one being a limited enthalpy pickup per pass, the other being relatively high average mass flow rates, in pounds per hour per square foot, in the furnace tubes.
  • the limited enthalpy pick up per pass is illustrated in the graphs of FIGS. 9 and 10, which relate enthalpy pickup to temperature.
  • FIG. 9 which shows the enthalpy temperature increase in the generator at 25 percent load
  • the enthalpy increase in the first pass is from about 400 to 800 B.t.u.s per pound, the temperature level in the pass increasing from about 420 F. to about 710 F.
  • the enthalpy level is further increased from about 800 B.t.u.s per pound to about 1030 B.t.u.s per pound, the temperature level in this pass increasing from only about 710 F. to about 740 F.
  • the enthalpy level may increase from about 610 B.t.u.s per pound to about 880 B.t.u.s per pound, the temperature increasing from about 600 F. to about 730 F. In pass 2, there is a further temperature increase to about 750 F. and an enthalpy increase to about 1040 B.t.u.s per pound.
  • Table I gives representative mass flow rates for the first and second passes and boundary wall heat recovery area third pass, in accordance with the invention.
  • these mass flow rates are sufficient to render the passes relatively insensitive to a flow upset, so that should a small flow imbalance occur in one of the passes, the tubes of the pass still will be adequately cooled by the high mass flow rates.
  • FIGS. 9 and 10 also illustrate the operation and purpose of the buffer circuit in accordance with the invention.
  • the inlet temperatures into the second pass are in the range of 710 to 730 F., from 25 percent to percent load, while the inlet temperatures into the first pass are in the range of 400 to 610 F. from 25 percent to 100 percent load.
  • the positioning of the buffer circuit panels between panels of the first and second passes in effect halves the temperature differences between adjacent tubes.
  • the generator is top supported, so that growth in the walls of the furnace enclosure can be in a downward direction.
  • the present invention is for use primarily with oil or gas firing, and the embodiment illustrated and described above is a design especially adapted for this type firing.
  • thefuel combustion within the furnace is characterized by a high heat release per square feet of surface, and the present invention takes advantage of this fact towards increasing the overall generator rating while maintaining fluid circuit flow stability.
  • rating can be defined as the average number of B.t.u.s per hour absorbed per square foot of surface area exposed to hot gases.
  • the design of the present invention among other things is one in which the maximum permissible furnace exit gas temperature, for the fuel fired, is used. Because of this design choice, the log-mean temperature difference for heat transfer from theflue gases to the superheater and reheater convection sections is held at highest values to minimize this required surface.
  • the embodiment in F lG.l shows the platen (or pendant) superheater surface 55 and the finishing superheater positioned in a relatively high temperature area of the furnace convection enclosure, so that the highest log-mean temperature difference (between the gases passing over these superheater surfaces and the fluid within the superheaters) can be utilized to minimize surface requirements for these expensive sections.
  • the relatively low cost economizer surface 56 is maximized to achieve the highest fluid enthalpy pickup for the economizer within design limits.
  • the furnace enthalpy absorption is reduced to the extent that the furnace periphery, at least in the lower part of the furnace, can be divided into two flow passes in series, the enthalpy pickup per pass being low enough to provide stable circuit characteristics; i.e., sufficiently low to reduce the likelihood of a flow imbalance caused by a heat absorption up- ,set.
  • the use of two passes in series permits positioning the passes in opposed walls of the furnace enclosure, with the cooler tubes of the enclosure facing and adjacent to the bursuch furnace protecting arrangements as gas recirculation, or
  • the present invention by virtue of higher flue gas exit temperatures, and larger log-mean temperature differences in the convection portion of [the generator provides a means by which more vapor can be generated with less surface than in conventional units (that is, by which the generator rating can be increased), capital costs for the generator thereby being reduced. 1
  • FIGS. l7 The embodiment of FIGS. l7 described above is for a furnace which would be gas fired a substantial portion of the time, and oil fired perhaps a quarter of the time. It may be desirable to use essentially the same generator design in a totally oil-fired unit, in which case the generator would be rated at a slightly lesser value, with a slightly larger furnace enthalpy pickup (a larger dimensioned furnace).
  • furnace flue gas exit temperature would still be relatively high, limited only by design criteria relating to fuel properties. well above conventional designs, but offering a slightly lower log-mean temperature differences to superheater and reheater surface than in the embodiment described above.
  • the sidewalls are divided as shown in FIG. 8 into second and third passes (I10, I12 respectively with the third pass occupying the upper portion of each of the sidewalls and the second pass the lower portion.
  • Mix headers 114 illustrated in FIG. 8 are disposed between the second and third passes at an elevation about one-half to two-thirds of the height of the enclosure walls, the passes being terminated and in end-to-end relationship at this elevation.
  • This design modification reduces the enthalpy pickup in any one pass, provides an intermediate mixing location, and minimizes the probability of a flow upset caused by absorption differences in tubes of the passes.
  • mix header arrangement forms no part of this invention, and a typical mix header arrangement is illustrated in prior US. Pat. No. 3,343,523, assigned to assignee of the present application.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 A further embodiment in accordance with the invention is illustrated in FIGS. 11 and 12.
  • a full division wall is provided between the front and rear walls 122 and 124, and parallel with the sidewalls 126 and 128.
  • the division wall has the same height and geometry (tube sizes) as the sidewalls and is connected into the circuitry in parallel with the sidewalls, so that it is part of the furnace second pass, receiving a flow from the outlet end of the first pass front and rear walls via downcomers 130 and 132; the flow from the downcomers passing to both the headers 134 for the division wall and headers 136 for the sidewalls.
  • the advantage of this embodiment is that it provides a means inexpensively to shorten the furnace height for a given fluid enthalpy absorption. For a given burner firing rate the combined side and division wall surfaces of the shorter furnace, plus the front and fear walls, have substantially the same heat absorption as the taller walls of the generator of FIGS. l7.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 offer substantially all of the advantages in accordance with the invention, primarily a means to obtain, economically, stable circuit characteristics and relative insensitivity to flow imbalance with a minimum number of furnace passes. In addition this embodiment provides a means for increasing the generator rating in accordance with the invention.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 can readily be incorporated into the embodiment of FIG. 8. i
  • a once-through vapor generator comprising:
  • a plurality of parallel vertically oriented tubes defining an upright furnace enclosure including front. rear and sidewall panels;
  • header means dividing said furnace enclosure into first and second flow passes in series flow relationship
  • one of said flow passes constituting substantially the full expanses of the front and rear wall panels of the furnace enclosure, the other of said flow passes occupying substantially the full expanses of the sidewall panels of the furnace enclosure.
  • furnace enclosure comprises an upper gas exit and a lower high-absorption zone; further including:
  • convection surface enclosure means in gas fiow communication with said furnace enclosure gas exit;
  • furnace enclosure panels being limited in dimension so that the gas temperature adjacent said gas exit is substantially the maximum value permissible for the fuel fired.
  • said furnace includes an upper zone in addition to said lower high-absorption zone, the tube diameters in said upper zone being greater than the diameters in said lower zone to reduce the pressure drop in said passes. the tube diameters in the lower zone being sufficiently small to maintain mass flow rates in said high-absorption zone at above acceptable minimum levels.
  • front, rear and sidewall panels are substantially flat defining a rectangular furnace enclosure; further including buffer circuit panels each comprising a plurality of parallel tubes defining upright corners of said furnace enclosure, between said front, rear and sidewall panels; header means arranged to distribute to said buffer circuit panels substantially equal portions of the flow being distributed to said first and second passes, so that the temperatures in said buffer circuit panels are intermediate the temperatures in the panels of said first and second passes.
  • the generator of claim 2 further including primary and finishing superheater passes, said primary superheater pass including pendant radiant heat transfer surface adjacent the gas exit of said furnace enclosure, said finishing superheater pass comprising heat transfer surface positioned on the convection side of said gas exit, adjacent thereto.
  • the generator of claim 1 further including a third flow pass comprising wall panels in end-to-end relationship with the wall panels of said second flow pass;
  • said third flow pass panels being laterally substantially coextensive with the second flow pass panels but above the latter so that said second and third pass panels together have about the same height as said first pass panels;
  • burner means in the lower portion of said furnace enclosure, said burner means being predominantly oil fired;
  • said furnace enclosure defining gas exit means adjacent the top thereof;
  • the temperature of the flue gas adjacent said gas exit means being the maximum permissible value for the fuel fired.
  • the generator of claim 1 further including downcomer means between said first and second passes;
  • said downcomer means comprising a horizontal manifold extension above said furnace enclosure substantially parallel with said header means and downwardly extending side connections connected to said manifold extension on opposite sides of said enclosure;
  • said fan-mix connection means comprising connections between said exit header means and said manifold extension which lead from one end of each header means to a corresponding end of the manifold extension and al ternately to an opposite end of the extension. connected to the latter near the center of said manifold extension. more centered header connections leading to portions of the manifold extension more removed from the center of the latter.
  • the generator of claim 3 further including a division wall panel.
  • said division wall panel being parallel to the sidewall panels, coextensive in height therewith. and having the same geometry.
  • said header means connecting said division wall panel so that the flow therein is in parallel with the flow in the sidewall panels.
  • a once-through vapor generator comprising:
  • an upright substantially rectangular furnace enclosure including a plurality of parallel vertically oriented tubes defining front, rear and sidewall panels;
  • said enclosure comprising a lower high absorption zone and an upper gas exit;
  • header means connecting said tubes to define first and second flow passes in series.
  • first flow pass constituting substantially the full periphery of the front and rear wall panels of said enclosure and the second flow pass constituting substantially the full periphery of the sidewall panels of said enclosure, at least in said high-absorption zone;
  • burner means positioned in the front and rear wall panels in said lower high-absorption zone
  • a plurality of parallel upright tubes defining buffer circuit panels positioned in said enclosure between the front. rear and sidewall panels of said first and second passes;
  • furnace enclosure panels being limited in dimension so that the gas temperature adjacent said gas exit is substantially the maximum value permissible for the fuel fired.
  • furnace enclosure includes an upper gas exit zone in addition to said lower high-absorption zone; the tube diameters of said first and second passes being increased in said upper gas exit zone reducing the pressure drop therein, but maintaining minimum required mass flow rates in said lower high-absorption zone.
  • a once-through vapor generator comprising:
  • a plurality of parallel vertically oriented tubes defining an upright furnace enclosure including front, rear and sidewall panels;
  • header means dividing said furnace enclosure into first and second flow passes in series flow relationship
  • one of said flow passes constituting substantially the full expanses widthwise of the front and rear wall panels of the furnace enclosure, the other of said flow passes occupy substantially the full expanses widthwise of the sidewall panels of the furnace enclosure, said passes constituting a substantial portion of the furnace enclosure.

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