IP Library Granted Patent US 8,622,328
Granted Patent B2
US 8,622,328 · App. 13/805,390 · Granted Jan 7, 2014

Vertical roller mill

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Patent No.
US 8,622,328
App. No.
13/805,390
Granted
Jan 7, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a vertical roller mill in which a fixed-type cyclone sorter is provided in a casing, the fixed-type cyclone sorter includes a conical member; a fixed-blade entrance window through which a solid-gas two-phase flow is introduced into the interior of the conical member; a flat plate-like fixed blade that causes the solid-gas two-phase flow to spiral; an inner cylinder into which pulverized coal is guided from the bottom end thereof toward the top end thereof by means of spiraling of the solid-gas two-phase flow; and a pulverized-coal exit through which the pulverized coal guided to the top end of the inner cylinder is guided outside the conical member, wherein the fixed blade is provided with a tip portion where a downward flow is increased for the solid-gas two-phase flow guided into the interior of the conical member from the fixed-blade entrance window.

Claims (16)

1. A vertical roller mill comprising:

a fixed cyclone sorter provided in a casing, which causes fine powder having a small particle size contained in a solid-gas two-phase flow, in which powder produced by grinding a solid is transported by means of an airflow, to externally flow out by applying sorting based on a centrifugal force,

wherein the fixed cyclone sorter includes

a conical member in which a narrow tip portion is positioned at the bottom;

a fixed-blade entrance window provided in the conical member as an opening through which the solid-gas two-phase flow is introduced into the interior of the conical member;

a flat plate fixed blade that is attached on the inner side of the conical member near the fixed-blade entrance window and that causes the solid-gas two-phase flow to spiral;

an inner cylinder that is provided at an axial center of the conical member and into which the fine powder is guided from the bottom end thereof toward the top end thereof by means of spiraling of the solid-gas two-phase flow; and

a fine-powder exit through which the fine powder guided to the top end of the inner cylinder is guided outside the conical member, wherein

the fixed blade is bent at a tip portion of the fixed blade so as to increase a downward flow of the solid-gas two-phase flow guided into the interior of the conical member from the fixed-blade entrance window;

the fixed blade is bent along a bending line that connects a top-edge bend starting point at the top edge thereof having a flat plate form and a bottom-edge bend starting point at the bottom edge thereof having the flat plate form; and

the bottom-end bend starting point is positioned closer to the axial center of the conical member than the top-edge bend starting point is.

2. A vertical roller mill according to claim 1 , wherein the top-edge bend starting point is at a position of 0.2 or greater but 0.3 or less from the fixed-blade entrance window relative to the total length of the top edge having the flat plate form, and the bottom-edge bend starting point is at a position of 0.4 or greater but 0.6 or less from the fixed-blade entrance window relative to the total length of the bottom edge having the flat plate form.

3. A vertical roller mill according to claim 1 , wherein

a line that connects a bottom-edge tip portion of the fixed blade and the bottom-edge bend starting point forms an angle of 10° or greater but 30° or less with respect to a line that extends in a radial direction from the fixed-blade entrance window toward the axial center of the conical member; and

a line that connects a top-edge tip portion of the fixed blade and the top-edge bend starting point forms an angle of 5° or greater but 25° or less with respect to a line that connects the bottom-edge tip portion of the fixed blade and the bottom-edge bend starting point.

4. A vertical roller mill according to claim 1 , wherein the fixed blade is bent from the fixed-blade entrance window toward the axial center of the conical member by being divided into multiple stages.

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 19, 2012
From: MATSUMOTO, SHINJI; TSUTSUBA, TAKASHI; MATSUZAKI, KOKI; YAMAGUCHI, SOTARO; SUEOKA, YASUHIRO; ARIMA, KENICHI; YAMAMOTO, TSUGIO; DAIMARU, TAKUICHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 029499/0958 →