Highly efficient, clean and pressurized gasification apparatus for dry powder of carbonaceous material and method thereof

• US 8,801,813 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2009
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Changzheng Engineering Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Changzheng Engineering Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lu, Zhengtao, Wang, Mingkun, Jiang, Congbin, Xin, Wei, Gao, Ruiheng, Li, Honghai
• Primary Examiner(s): HANDAL, KAITY V
• Application Number:
  US13/519,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20130192501A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,691 Days
• Field of Search: 48/61, 481/271, 481/279, 48/76, 48/67, 48 71- 74, 481/28
• US Class Current: 48/61
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2200/09 Mechanical details of gasifiers not otherwise provided for, e.g. sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0956 Air or oxygen enriched air
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0976 as steam
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/485 Entrained flow gasifiers
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/726 Start-up
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/74 Construction of shells or jackets
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/76 Water jackets; Steam boiler-jackets
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/845 Quench rings
• CPC Class Codes: F23M 5/00 Casings; Linings; Walls

Abstract

A gasification apparatus for solid fuel, especially an apparatus for producing syngas by pressurized gasification of coal powder, including a gasification chamber (II) and a syngas cooling and purification chamber (III). The inner wall of the gasification chamber is a water-cooling wall (4). The inner side of the water-cooled wall is evenly coated with a layer of fire-resistant material (16). There is an annular cavity between the water-cooling wall of the gasification chamber and the furnace body. A syngas quencher, a vertical pipe (22), a gas distribution device (24), a defoaming device, and a dewatering and deashing device (21) are provided in the syngas cooling and purification chamber. The apparatus has a simple structure and is easy to operate. A high temperature gasification method for dry powder of carbonaceous material comprises spraying the combustible material and oxygen into the furnace and followed by ignition.

Claims

1. A gasification apparatus for solid fuel, comprising a furnace shell system, a gasification chamber system, and a syngas cooling and purifying system, the furnace shell system includes a furnace body of cylindrical structure and a cone-shaped disk, wherein a feeding inlet is on the top of the furnace body, a slag outlet is at the bottom of the furnace body and a syngas outlet is provided in the middle of the furnace body, the furnace body is divided into an upper furnace body and a lower furnace body by the cone-shaped disk, the upper furnace body comprises a gasification chamber which is located in the upper furnace body, and the lower furnace body comprises a syngas cooling and purifying chamber which is located in the lower furnace body, characterized in that:

the gasification chamber has a water-cooling wall structure, a layer of fire-resistant material is evenly coated on the inner side of the water-cooling wall, and an annular cavity is between the water-cooling wall of gasification chamber and the furnace body;

a purifying system including a syngas quencher, a vertical pipe, a gas distribution device, a defoaming device and a dewatering and deashing device is provided in the syngas-cooling and purification chamber, the syngas quencher is connected with the cone-shaped disk located at the bottom of the gasification chamber, the vertical pipe is connected with the syngas quencher by means of an outlet flange located in the bottom of the gasification chamber and is connected with the bottom of the gasification chamber, a trumpet-shaped gas distribution device is connected with the lower portion of the vertical pipe via a smooth transition, a baffle device is arranged above the gas distribution device, a defoaming device is arranged 100-800 mm above the baffle device, and a dewatering and deashing device is arranged 100-800 mm above the defoaming plate at the uppermost layer of the defoaming device.

2. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, it further comprises a flame observing system which is put into use only at the start of the device operation, the flame observing system bottom-up sequentially includes an observing tube, a cut-off valve, a transparent material layer and an industrial camera, an inlet flange for protective gas is connected with the side wall of the observing tube which is embedded in the fire-resistant material on the inner side of the inlet water-cooling wall through a furnace cover at the feeding inlet located at the top of the furnace body, an observing hole is preserved at the lower portion of the observing tube to communicate with the gasification chamber, the protective gas is flowed into the observing tube from the inlet flange for the protective gas, and the industrial camera observes the ignition conditions in the gasification chamber by means of the observing tube through transparent material layer and passes the obtained information back to a control room of the apparatus.

3. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 2 wherein, it further comprises a temperature monitoring system comprising several temperature detecting devices in the furnace arranged in circumferential direction at different heights of the body water-cooling wall, and the temperature detecting devices in the furnace protrude from the fire-resistant material of the water-cooling wall by 0-15 mm so as to monitor the temperature in the furnace in real-time.

4. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 2, wherein, the temperature monitoring system further comprises several temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material arranged in circumferential direction at different heights, and the temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material are 0-20 mm inwardly from the surface of the fire-resistant material of the water-cooling wall so as to monitor the temperature of the fire-resistant material in real-time.

5. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 2, wherein, a layer of 5-100 mm of fire-resistant material is evenly coated on the inner surface of the upper furnace body, and a layer of corrosion resisting stainless steel is overlaid on the inner surface of the lower furnace body.

6. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 2, wherein, the gasification chamber system includes inlet water-cooling wall, body water-cooling wall and outlet water-cooling wall which are all in the form of spiral coil;

the inlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the furnace cover by means of welding, the body water-cooling wall is fixed to the support plate in the upper furnace body, the support plate in the upper furnace body is composed of two or more pre-welding members which are distributed circumferentially and evenly;

the outlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the outlet flange of the gasification chamber by means of welding, and the outlet flange is fixedly connected with the cone-shaped disk.

7. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 2, wherein, both the inner side and outer side of the inlet water-cooling wall are coated with a high temperature fire-resistant material while only the inner sides of the body water-cooling wall and the outlet water-cooling wall are coated with the high temperature fire-resistant material, and said high temperature fire-resistant material is silicon carbide.

8. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1 wherein, it further comprises a temperature monitoring system comprising several temperature detecting devices in the furnace arranged in circumferential direction at different heights of the body water-cooling wall, and the temperature detecting devices in the furnace protrude from the fire-resistant material of the water-cooling wall by 0-15 mm so as to monitor the temperature in the furnace in real-time.

9. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the temperature monitoring system further comprises several temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material arranged in circumferential direction at different heights, and the temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material are 0-20 mm inwardly from the surface of the fire-resistant material of the water-cooling wall so as to monitor the temperature of the fire-resistant material in real-time.

10. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 8, wherein, a layer of 5-100 mm of fire-resistant material is evenly coated on the inner surface of the upper furnace body, and a layer of corrosion resisting stainless steel is overlaid on the inner surface of the lower furnace body.

11. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the gasification chamber system includes inlet water-cooling wall, body water-cooling wall and outlet water-cooling wall which are all in the form of spiral coil;

the inlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the furnace cover by means of welding, the body water-cooling wall is fixed to the support plate in the upper furnace body, the support plate in the upper furnace body is composed of two or more pre-welding members which are distributed circumferentially and evenly;

the outlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the outlet flange of the gasification chamber by means of welding, and the outlet flange is fixedly connected with the cone-shaped disk.

12. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the temperature monitoring system further comprises several temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material arranged in circumferential direction at different heights, and the temperature detecting devices for fire-resistant material are 0-20 mm inwardly from the surface of the fire-resistant material of the water-cooling wall so as to monitor the temperature of the fire-resistant material in real-time.

13. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 12, wherein, a layer of 5-100 mm of fire-resistant material is evenly coated on the inner surface of the upper furnace body, and a layer of corrosion resisting stainless steel is overlaid on the inner surface of the lower furnace body.

14. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, a layer of 5-100 mm of fire-resistant material is evenly coated on the inner surface of the upper furnace body, and a layer of corrosion resisting stainless steel is overlaid on the inner surface of the lower furnace body.

15. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the gasification chamber system includes inlet water-cooling wall, body water-cooling wall and outlet water-cooling wall which are all in the form of spiral coil;

the inlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the furnace cover by means of welding, the body water-cooling wall is fixed to the support plate in the upper furnace body, the support plate in the upper furnace body is composed of two or more pre-welding members which are distributed circumferentially and evenly;

the outlet water-cooling wall is fixedly connected with the outlet flange of the gasification chamber by means of welding, and the outlet flange is fixedly connected with the cone-shaped disk.

16. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, both the inner side and outer side of the inlet water-cooling wall are coated with a high temperature fire-resistant material while only the inner sides of the body water-cooling wall and the outlet water-cooling wall are coated with the high temperature fire-resistant material, and said high temperature fire-resistant material is silicon carbide.

17. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the structure of the gas distribution device is in the form of annular plate with pores and/or a number of circular girdle with sawteeth, and a plurality of opening pores with a pore size of 10-150 mm are present on the gas distribution device.

18. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 17, wherein, a plurality of opening pores with a pore size of 10-150 mm are present on the baffle of the baffle device, the opening pores being staggered with the opening pores of the foregoing gas distribution device.

19. The gasification apparatus for solid fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the defoaming device includes 2-6 layers of defoaming plates, each layer of the defoaming plates is composed of multiple annular plates which are fixed onto the support member for defoaming plate of the lower furnace body, opening pores with a pore size of 10-150 mm are regularly arranged on the defoaming plates, and the small pores between adjacent two layers are staggered.