IP Library Granted Patent US 8,997,665
Granted Patent B2
US 8,997,665 · App. 13/120,791 · Granted Apr 7, 2015

Slag-melting burner apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,997,665
App. No.
13/120,791
Granted
Apr 7, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A leading end located in a two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier has a double-walled structure including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder, and cooling water for cooling the leading end is supplied through an interior of the inner cylinder to cool the leading end and is then returned to a base end through a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder, and a swirling flow along a guide formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder and a substantially linear flow in a longitudinal direction of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder are applied to the cooling water returned to the base end through the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder.

Claims (17)

1. A slag-melting burner apparatus for a two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier that combusts pulverized coal carried by a gas in a combustor and feeds pulverized coal similarly carried by a gas to a combustion gas in a reductor to carbonize and gasify the pulverized coal while discharging incombustible residue from a slag hole as molten slag, the slag-melting burner apparatus, comprising:

a leading end of the burner apparatus configured to be located in the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier, the leading end of the burner apparatus having a double-walled structure including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder,

wherein cooling water for cooling the leading end of the burner apparatus is supplied through an interior of the inner cylinder to cool an extremity of the leading end of the burner apparatus and is then returned to a base end through a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder; and

wherein a front chamber is provided for partitioning the interior of the outer cylinder into a first space on the leading end side and a second space on a base end side, and the front chamber includes a large-diameter portion at the base end side of the outer cylinder, in which an outer circumferential surface of the large-diameter portion is flush with an outer circumferential surface of the outer cylinder, and includes a small-diameter portion at a leading end side of the burner apparatus, in which an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder is flush with an outer circumferential surface of the small-diameter portion,

wherein the front chamber has a first hole for guiding the cooling water into the front chamber, and a second hole for discharging the cooling water from the front chamber, the first and second holes extending in a longitudinal direction of the burner apparatus,

wherein the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder, and a swirling flow along a guide formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder and a substantially linear flow in a longitudinal direction of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, at a position between an end surface of the guide and an inner circumferential surface of the outer cylinder opposing the guide, are applied to the cooling water returned to the base end through the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder,

the cooling water from a channel formed between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion of the front chamber is discharged to an outside through a third hole defined by a rear chamber provided at the base end side of the burner apparatus, and

wherein the outer cylinder is configured to be directly exposed in the two-stage entrained flow bed coal gasifier.

2. The slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the swirling flow and the substantially linear flow within the space prevent a phenomenon of departure of nuclear boiling that decreases a heat transfer coefficient.

3. The slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the extremity of the leading end of the burner apparatus has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder.

4. The slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the leading end of the burner apparatus located in the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier is extendable into and retractable from the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier.

5. The slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the leading end of the burner apparatus located in the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier is extendable into and retractable from the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier.

6. A two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier, comprising: the slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 1 .

7. A coal gasification combined cycle power plant, comprising: the two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier according to claim 6 .

8. A two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier, comprising: the slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 3 .

9. A two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier, comprising: the slag-melting burner apparatus according to claim 4 .

Assignments (8)
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 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ADDRESS OF ASSIGNEE AND EXECUTION DATE OF ASSIGNOR PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 042109 FRAME 0001. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 11, 2017
From: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
To: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY HOLDINGS, INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 042444/0419 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE THE ASSIGNEE ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 041717 FRAME: 0286. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Mar 29, 2017
From: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC
To: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY HOLDINGS, INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 042109/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 2, 2017
From: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
To: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY HOLDINGS, INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 041717/0286 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034907/0221 →
MERGER Recorded Sep 16, 2013
From: CLEAN COAL POWER R&D CO., LTD.
To: JOBAN JOINT POWER CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 031215/0974 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2011
From: HAMASAKI, SHINYA; OHTSUKA, TOSHIMI; KOYAMA, YOSHINORI; YOKOHAMA, KATSUHIKO; SHIBATA, YASUNARI; KASAI, JUN
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.; CLEAN COAL POWER R&D CO., LTD.; HOKKAIDO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED; TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.; THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED; CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.; HOKURIKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY; THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.; THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.; SHIKOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.; KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC; ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.; CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
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