Premix burner and method of operating the burner

• US 5,782,627 A
• Filed: 05/29/1997
• Issued: 07/21/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alstom SA
• Original Assignee: ABB Research Ltd. (ABB Ltd.)
• Inventors: Griffin, Timothy, Knopfel, Hans Peter, Dobbeling, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Dority, Carroll B.
• Application Number:
  US08/865,102
• Time in Patent Office: 418 Days
• Field of Search: 431/284, 431/285, 431/174, 431/9
• US Class Current: 431/9
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 2202/40 Inducing local whirls around flame
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 2900/07002 Premix burners with air inlet slots obtained between offset curved wall surfaces, e.g. double cone burners
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 7/002 the air being submitted to a rotary or spinning motion cyclonic combustion chamber F23C3/006
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 9/006 the recirculation taking place in the combustion chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 11/402 Mixing chambers downstream of the nozzle
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 17/002 gaseous or liquid fuel
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 2209/20 Flame lift-off / stability
• CPC Class Codes: F23R 3/12 inducing a vortex

Abstract

In a burner of the double-cone design, bores (27) are arranged in the burner sickle (26), via which bores (27) the gaseous fuel (16), to the extent of about 3 to 8% of the total mass fuel flow, is mixed into the outer recirculation zone (28) of the burner. This leads to additional outer stabilization of the flame and to an extended operating range of the burner.

Claims

1. Burner for burning liquid (12) and gaseous fuels (16), comprising at least two hollow sectional cone bodies (1, 2) complementing one another to form one body, having tangential air-inlet slots (5, 6) and feeds (13, 14) for gaseous (16) and liquid fuels (12), in which burner the center axes (3, 4) of the hollow sectional cone bodies (1, 2) have a conicity widening in the direction of flow and run offset from one another in the longitudinal direction, a fuel nozzle (11) for the liquid fuel (12) being placed at the burner head in the conical interior space (8) formed by the sectional cone bodies (1, 2), and the feeds (13, 14) for the gaseous fuel (16) being provided with fuel injectors (15), and the air-inlet slots (5, 6) being closed off on a combustion-chamber side by a burner sickle (26), wherein at least one bore (27) is arranged in the burner sickle (26), which bore (27) is connected to a source of gaseous fuel (16).

2. The burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one bore (27) is arranged parallel to the burner axis (22).

3. The burner as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one bore (27) is arranged so as to slope outwards at an angle to the burner axis (22), preferably at an angle of 45°

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4. A method of operating a burner as claimed in claim 1, a conical liquid fuel column (23) being formed in the interior space (8) of the burner, which liquid fuel column (23) spreads in the direction of flow, does not wet the walls of the interior space (8), is enclosed by a rotating combustion-air flow (7) flowing tangentially into the burner and gaseous fuel (16) being fed to the combustion-air flow (7) before it flows into the interior space (8) of the burner, the ignition of the mixture takes place only at the outlet of the burner, and the flame is stabilized in the region of an outlet of the burner orifice by an inner recirculation zone (24), wherein 3 to 8% of the total mass fuel flow is mixed into an outer recirculation zone (28).

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the fuel (16) mixed into the outer recirculation zone (28) is injected in the opposite direction to the swirl direction of the recirculation flow.