IP Library Granted Patent US 9,541,289
Granted Patent B2
US 9,541,289 · App. 14/113,277 · Granted Jan 10, 2017

Gas cooler, gasification furnace, and integrated gasification combined cycle for carbon-containing fuel

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Patent No.
US 9,541,289
App. No.
14/113,277
Granted
Jan 10, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a gas cooler for cooling a produced gas on a side from which the produced gas exits, the produced gas being produced by partially oxidizing and gasifying a carbon-containing fuel in a gasification furnace inside a pressure vessel. A distance (SL) between tubes of a tube bundle of a heat exchanger provided inside the gas cooler is set such that the tubes are in contact with each other or adjacent to each other in a gas-flow direction of the produced gas. Since the tubes are in contact with each other or adjacent to each other, a particle flowing with the gas flow is only deposited as a deposited particle in a concave portion between the tubes, whereby the decrease in heat exchange efficiency caused by particle deposition can be suppressed.

Claims (14)

1. A pressure vessel comprising:

a gasification furnace that partially oxidizes and gasifies a pulverized coal and discharges gasified gas as a produced gas; and

a gas cooler including a flue gas duct that communicates with the gasification furnace and through which the produced gas passes, wherein

the gas cooler includes a heat exchanger provided in the flue gas duct, the heat exchanger including a group of tubes arrayed along a gas-flow direction of the produced gas passing through the flue gas duct, and

a ratio (SL/d) of a distance (SL) in the gas-flow direction of the produced gas between the tubes constituting the group of tubes to an outer diameter (d) of the tube is larger than 1 and 1.4 or smaller, such that dust particles of the produced gas are deposited only in a concave portion between the tubes.

2. The pressure vessel according to claim 1 , wherein

a temperature of the produced gas inside the gas cooler is equal to an ash melting point or lower, and

a dust concentration of the produced gas from the gasification furnace falls within a range of 50 g/m 3 to 20,000 g/m 3 .

3. The pressure vessel according to claim 1 , wherein pressure inside the pressure vessel is 0.5 MPa to 10 MPa.

4. An integrated gasification combined cycle for a carbon-containing fuel comprising:

the pressure vessel according to claim 1 ;

a gas turbine equipment to which the produced gas obtained in the pressure vessel is supplied as a fuel; and

an exhausted heat recovery steam generator for recovering exhausted heat from a flue gas generated from the gas turbine equipment.

5. The integrated gasification combined cycle for a carbon-containing fuel according to claim 4 , further comprising a steam turbine equipment to which obtained steam is supplied.

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 24, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035017/0151 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 22, 2013
From: SHIBATA, YASUNARI; SHINADA, OSAMU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 031453/0523 →