IP Library Granted Patent US 8,590,464
Granted Patent B2
US 8,590,464 · App. 12/443,526 · Granted Nov 26, 2013

Pulverized coal concentration adjustment apparatus and pulverized coal combustion boiler

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Patent No.
US 8,590,464
App. No.
12/443,526
Granted
Nov 26, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

To achieve an improvement in concentration distribution in a vertical direction at an inlet of a pulverized coal distributor and uniformly distribute pulverized coal to respective pulverized coal burners. A pulverized coal distributor and a gas-particle flow adjustment device provided on an upstream side of the pulverized coal distributor and at a bottom in a pulverized coal pipe to adjust pulverized coal to branch pipes in concentration are provided, the gas-particle flow adjustment device comprises a plate-shaped member provided along a substantially overall width of the pulverized coal pipe to have a substantially rectangular shape as viewed in plan view, a front edge of the gas-particle flow adjustment device is mounted pivotally to a bottom surface of the pulverized coal pipe, and an angle formed between an upper surface of the gas-particle flow adjustment device and a bottom surface of the pulverized coal pipe can be automatically adjusted on the basis of signals from flow sensors mounted to the respective branch pipes.

Claims (5)

1. A pulverized coal concentration adjustment apparatus comprising

a pulverized coal distributor, of which an upstream end is connected to a pulverized coal pipe, through which pulverized coal is pneumatically conveyed to flow, and a downstream end is connected to a plurality of branch pipes, and which distributes and pneumatically conveys the pulverized coal to the respective branch pipes through flow passages in plural stages, and

a gas-particle flow adjustment device provided on an upstream side of the pulverized coal distributor and at a bottom in the pulverized coal pipe to adjust pulverized coal to the branch pipes in concentration, and

wherein the gas-particle flow adjustment device comprises a plate-shaped member provided along a substantially overall width of the pulverized coal pipe to have a substantially rectangular shape as viewed in plan view, an upstream leading edge of the gas-particle flow adjustment device is mounted pivotally to a bottom surface of the pulverized coal pipe, and an angle formed between an upper surface of the gas-particle flow adjustment device and a bottom surface of the pulverized coal pipe can be automatically adjusted on the basis of signals from flow sensors mounted to the respective branch pipes.

2. A pulverized coal combustion boiler comprising the pulverized coal concentration adjustment apparatus according to claim 1 .

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035101/0029 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2009
From: MATSUMOTO, SHINJI; YAMAMOTO, TSUGIO; TANIGUCHI, MASAHIKO; TAKEUCHI, KAZUHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 022519/0011 →