Once-through boiler
Disclosed herein is a once-through boiler capable of achieving a steep increase in temperature of steam via reheating of the steam within a combustion chamber, thereby improving heat and energy efficiency. The boiler comprises a body ( 110 ), a steam supply unit ( 120 ), and a heating unit ( 130 ). The body includes a housing ( 111 ), a cover ( 112 ), and a guide pipe ( 113 ). The steam supply unit includes an annular water tank ( 122 ) in a lower region of the body, a steam supply chamber ( 124 ) in an uppermost region of the body, water pipes ( 121 ) amounted on the water tank, a low-temperature steam inlet pipe ( 125 ) and a high-temperature steam outlet pipe ( 127 ) mounted at opposite sides of the water pipes, and a steam heating pipe ( 126 ) to communicate the inlet pipe with the outlet pipe. The heating unit includes a burner ( 131 ), and a combustion chamber ( 132 ).
1. A once-through boiler, wherein a primarily generated low-temperature steam, filled in a steam supply chamber, is introduced into a low-temperature steam inlet pipe to be reheated while passing through a steam heating pipe mounted in a combustion chamber, thereby being discharged to the outside via a high-temperature steam outlet pipe in a high-temperature steam state, wherein:
the high-temperature steam outlet pipe communicates with a low-temperature steam discharge pipe; and control valves are mounted, respectively, to both the low-temperature steam discharge pipe and the high-temperature steam outlet pipe to control a temperature of the steam.
2. The boiler as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the steam heating pipe, adapted to reheat the low-temperature steam introduced into the combustion chamber, is located in a lower region of the combustion chamber close to an inner circumference of the combustion chamber so as not to come into direct contact with a flame during heating of the steam.
3. The boiler as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the steam heating pipe has a coil shape, loop shape, or a combined shape thereof.