IP Library Granted Patent US 8,667,912
Granted Patent B2
US 8,667,912 · App. 12/664,826 · Granted Mar 11, 2014

Burner for highly caking coal, and gasifier

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Patent No.
US 8,667,912
App. No.
12/664,826
Granted
Mar 11, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel that is attached penetrating through a surrounding wall of a gasifier for gasifying a highly caking solid fuel that has been pulverized into particles and that supplies the solid fuel into the gasifier by gas flow transportation, and a gasifying agent channel that supplies a gasifying agent into the gasifier are provided, a blockage detection unit that detects a blockage situation of the solid fuel channel is provided, and a process for reducing the temperature of the solid fuel is performed when the blockage detection unit detects a predetermined blockage situation.

Claims (18)

1. A burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel that is attached penetrating through a furnace wall of a gasifier for gasifying a highly caking solid fuel that has been pulverized into particles and that supplies the solid fuel into the gasifier by gas flow transportation, and a gasifying agent channel that supplies a gasifying agent into the gasifier are provided in a concentric double pipe structure,

wherein a blockage situation detection means that detects a blockage situation of the solid fuel channel is provided,

wherein a temperature of the solid fuel is reduced when the blockage situation detection means detects a predetermined blockage situation,

wherein the blockage situation detection means detects a differential pressure between a burner inlet of the solid fuel channel and a suitable place located downstream from the burner inlet, and judges that a blockage situation is detected when a flow loss coefficient converted from the differential pressure increases to at least a predetermined value, and

wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of, in combination, an output of a control signal for increasing an amount of a carrier gas used for the gas flow transportation, and an output of a control signal for decreasing a temperature of the gasifying agent.

2. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an output of a control signal for increasing an amount of a carrier gas used for the gas flow transportation.

3. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an output of a control signal for decreasing a temperature of the gasifying agent.

4. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an upper limit monitoring means that detects an internal surface temperature of the solid fuel channel and that monitors the internal surface temperature so that the internal surface temperature does not become greater than a preset temperature determined according to a caking property of the solid fuel.

5. A gasifier into which a solid fuel such as particulate highly caking coal is supplied by gas flow transportation, and that subjects the solid fuel to a gasification treatment under a high-pressure environment together with a gasifying agent, wherein the gasifier comprises the burner for highly caking coal according to claim 1 .

6. A burner for highly caking coal in which a solid fuel channel that is attached penetrating through a furnace wall of a gasifier for gasifying a highly caking solid fuel that has been pulverized into particles and that supplies the solid fuel into the gasifier by gas flow transportation, and a gasifying agent channel that supplies a gasifying agent into the gasifier are provided in a concentric double pipe structure,

wherein a blockage situation detection means that detects a blockage situation of the solid fuel channel is provided,

wherein a temperature of the solid fuel is reduced when the blockage situation detection means detects a predetermined blockage situation,

wherein the blockage situation detection means judges that a blockage when a flow loss coefficient converted from a differential pressure ratio of a first differential pressure detected between a burner inlet and a suitable place located downstream from the burner inlet and a second differential pressure measured in an arbitrary section set in a fuel supply line connected to an upstream side of the solid fuel channel increases to at least a predetermined value, and

wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of, in combination, an output of a control signal for increasing an amount of a carrier gas used for the gas flow transportation, and an output of a control signal for decreasing a temperature of the gasifying agent.

7. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 6 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an output of a control signal for increasing an amount of a carrier gas used for the gas flow transportation.

8. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 6 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an output of a control signal for decreasing a temperature of the gasifying agent.

9. The burner for highly caking coal according to claim 6 , wherein the temperature of the solid fuel is reduced on the basis of an upper limit monitoring means that detects an internal surface temperature of the solid fuel channel, and monitors the internal surface temperature so that the internal surface temperature does not become greater than a preset temperature determined according to a caking property of the solid fuel.

10. A gasifier into which a solid fuel such as particulate highly caking coal is supplied by gas flow transportation, and that subjects the solid fuel to a gasification treatment under a high-pressure environment together with a gasifying agent, wherein the gasifier comprises the burner for highly caking coal according to claim 6 .

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 Dec 17, 2009
From: KOYAMA, YOSHINORI; ARUGA, TAKESHI; ISHII, HIROMI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 023666/0118 →