Premix burner with a swirl generator delimiting a conical swirl space and having sensor monitoring

• US 20070059655A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG (Ansaldo Energia SPA)
• Original Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd. (Alstom SA)
• Inventors: Hellat, Jaan, Brunner, Philipp, Paschereit, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 7,428,817 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 431/9
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 7/002 the air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion cyclonic combustion chamber F23C3/006
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/46 Details , e.g. noise reduction means
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 2241/20 Gas turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 5/022 using electronic means F23N5/04 - F23N5/14 take precedence

Abstract

A premix burner is disclosed, with a swirl generator which delimits a conical swirl space and provides at least two conical part shells which are arranged, offset to one another, along a burner axis, mutually enclose in each case air inlet slits running longitudinally with respect to the burner axis and have in combination a conically widening premix burner outer contour having a maximum outside diameter which narrows axially into a region with a minimum outside diameter. At least one conical part shell provides, in the region between the maximum and the minimum outside diameter, a reception unit which deviates from the conically widening premix burner outer contour and locally elevates the premix burner outer contour radially outward and which has a maximum radial extent which is dimensioned smaller than half the maximum outside diameter of the premix burner outer contour. Within the reception unit, at least one hollow duct is provided, with at least one duct orifice facing away from the swirl space and with a duct longitudinal extent which runs essentially parallel to the burner axis.

Claims

1. A premix burner comprising:

a swirl generator which delimits a conical swirl space and provides at least two conical part shells which are arranged, offset to one another, along a burner axis (A), mutually enclose in each case air inlet slits running longitudinally with respect to the burner axis (A) and have in combination a conically widening premix burner outer contour having a maximum outside diameter (A_max) which narrows axially into a region with a minimum outside diameter (A_min);

wherein at least one conical part shell provides, in a region between a maximum and a minimum outside diameter, a reception unit which deviates from a conically widening premix burner outer contour and locally elevates the premix burner outer contour radially outward and which has a maximum radial extent (R_max) which is dimensioned smaller than half a maximum outside diameter (A_max) of the premix burner outer contour; and

wherein, within the reception unit, at least one hollow duct is provided, with at least one duct orifice facing away from the swirl space and with a duct longitudinal extent which runs essentially parallel to the burner axis (A).

2. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow duct is configured as a blind hole.

3. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow duct is configured as a through duct which passes completely through the reception unit and the conical part shell and provides a duct orifice facing the swirl space.

4. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reception unit is joined firmly to a top side, facing away from the swirl space, of the conical part shell or is connected in one piece to the latter.

5. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow duct is configured rectilinearly, with at least one duct portion which has a constant duct cross section.

6. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow duct has at least two duct portions with a different duct cross section in each case, and wherein the duct portion with the smaller duct cross section adjoins the swirl space via the duct orifice.

7. The premix burner as claimed in claim 3, wherein the duct orifice facing the swirl space has an orifice contour which arises due to a rectilinear passage of the hollow duct, which runs parallel to the burner axis (A), through the conical part shell.

8. The premix burner as claimed in claim 7, wherein the duct orifice facing the swirl space has an enlarged orifice contour, as compared with the orifice contour due to passage.

9. The premix burner as claimed in claim 3, wherein the hollow duct configured as a through duct has a first duct portion which runs essentially parallel to the burner axis (A) and is configured as a blind hole duct, and wherein there follows along the first duct portion a second duct portion which is oriented perpendicularly to the burner axis (A) and has the duct orifice facing the swirl space.

10. The premix burner as claimed in claim 9, wherein at least one second hollow duct configured as a through duct has a first duct portion which runs essentially parallel to the burner axis and is configured as a blind hole duct, and wherein there follows, along the first duct portion of the second hollow duct configured as a through duct, a second duct portion which is oriented perpendicularly to the burner axis (A) and has a duct orifice facing away from the swirl space.

11. The premix burner as claimed in claim 3, wherein the duct orifice facing the swirl space is arranged in the region of about one third of the burner length, measured from the burner outlet, that is to say the burner region with the maximum outside diameter (A_max).

12. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the size, shape and arrangement of the at least one hollow duct are selected such that an axially directed equipping of the hollow duct with a sensor unit adapted in bar form to the inner contour of the hollow duct is possible.

13. The premix burner as claimed in claim 12, wherein the sensor unit is configured as an acoustic, optical, chemical, thermal or pressure sensor.

14. The premix burner as claimed in claim 12, wherein the hollow duct has, for a releasably firm attachment of the sensor unit to or in the hollow duct, a fastening device.

15. The premix burner as claimed in claim 4, wherein the top side, facing away from the swirl space, of the conical part shell is delimited in the circumferential direction, on the one hand, by a fuel supply pipe and, on the other hand, by a shell end edge, and wherein the reception unit is arranged centrally between the fuel supply pipe and the shell end edge.

16. The premix burner as claimed in claim 15, wherein, between the fuel supply pipe and the shell end edge, a distance is provided which corresponds at least to double the radial elevation of the reception unit with respect to the top side, facing away from the swirl space, of the conical part shell.

17. The premix burner as claimed in claim 15, wherein the reception unit has a streamlined surface contour which faces away from the conical part shell and by which an air stream issuing into the respective air inlet slits remains virtually uninfluenced.

18. The premix burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow duct is connected to at least one scavenging duct which projects radially outward through the conical part shell to feed a scavenging gas into the hollow duct.

19. The premix burner as claimed in claim 14, wherein the fastener is a screw connection, a connecting flange or a press fit.

20. The premix burner as claimed in claim 18, wherein the scavenging gas is cooling air.