Valve for a superheated-steam conversion plant

• US 6,131,612 A
• Filed: 03/06/1996
• Issued: 10/17/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theo Beurskens
• Original Assignee: Theo Beurskens
• Inventors: Beurskens, Theo
• Primary Examiner(s): FOX, JOHN C
• Application Number:
  US08/611,522
• Time in Patent Office: 1,686 Days
• Field of Search: 137/629, 137/625.37, 137/625.38, 137/625.39, 137/625.48, 137/861, 137/862
• US Class Current: 137/625.39
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 47/04 for decreasing pressure or noise level, the throttle being incorporated in the closure member
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 47/08 for decreasing pressure or noise level and having a throttling member separate from the closure member , e.g. screens, slots, labyrinths
• CPC Class Codes: F22G 5/126 in combination with steam-pressure reducing valves
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86807 Sequential opening or closing of serial ports in single flow line
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86936 Pressure equalizing or auxiliary shunt flow

Abstract

The invention relates to a valve, more particularly for a superheated steam conversion station, having an inlet and an outlet which can be closed by a closure member extending into the inlet or outlet, and a draw-off via which a component flow of the steam can be drawn off in the form of booster steam from the valve chamber (2) of the valve casing in dependence on the position of the closure member; the inlet or outlet is constructed with at least one chamber connected to a booster steam drawing-off bore with which a fixed wall of the chamber is formed; and when the valve is closed the chamber, which is sealed off from the pressure side of the valve by sealing faces of the closure member, is connected to said pressure side of the valve with the first lifting of the closure member, while the inlet or outlet is not yet opened or not yet completely opened.

Claims

1. A steam valve for a superheated steam conversion station, the steam valve comprising:

a casing formed with

a port having a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side and formed therebetween with an annular valve seat,

an annular draw-off chamber adjacent the valve seat and opening radially inward into the port immediately adjacent the seat on the low-pressure side, and

a draw-off passage extending from the draw-off chamber and opening into the low-pressure side downstream from the draw-off chamber;

a closure member displaceable in the casing between

a fully closed position directly engaging the valve seat, blocking flow past the seat and through the port, and substantially closing the draw-off chamber,

a partially closed position out of engagement with the valve seat, partially blocking the port and thereby permitting only restricted partial flow past the seat and through the port, and unblocking the draw-off chamber for restricted partial flow between the high-pressure side of the port and the draw-off chamber, and

a fully open position out of engagement with the valve seat and completely unblocking the port for free flow past the seat and through the port; and

means on the casing for moving the closure member between its positions.

2. The steam valve defined in claim 1, further comprising

means for injecting water into the port at an outlet end of the draw-off passage.

3. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the draw-off passage is formed around the port as a venturi-like annular chamber and forms a discharge gap opening into the downstream side downstream from the draw-off chamber.

4. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the draw-off chamber is defined by an inside wall of the port and an outside wall of the closure member.

5. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the draw-off chamber is circularly annular.

6. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the casing has two adjoining inside walls forming an outside wall of the draw-off chamber while the closure member has an outside wall forming an inside wall of the draw-off chamber.

7. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the closure member has a circularly extending extension on which a sealing face is formed which is applied to the seat in the fully closed position of the member.

8. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the closure member is a perforate cage cone.

9. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the closure member is a parabolic cone.

10. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the draw-off chamber has a side wall formed by an outside wall of the closure member and lengthened beyond a lower wall of the draw-off chamber opposite to a lifting direction of the closure member.

11. The steam valve defined in claim 1 wherein the member is a perforated elongated body having an annular shoulder engageable with the seat.