Abstract:
Mineral additives and a method for operating a waste-to-energy furnace are provided in order to improve its operational performance and availability, increase the lifetime of the combustor building materials (refractory walls and heat-exchanger metallic tubes) and flue gas treatment equipment, improve ash quality, reduce emissions and avoid combustion problems such as agglomeration, slagging, deposition and corrosion. A method for operating a waste-to-energy furnace, such as a fluidized bed reactor, pulverized-fuel combustor, grate combustor includes introducing mineral additive into the furnace. The method further includes heating at least a portion of the mineral additive either intimately in contact with the fuel, such that the ability of mineral additive to induce crystallization of the surface of forming ashes is enhanced, or minimizing the contact of the mineral additive with the fuel and the forming ashes, such that the solid-gas reactions between the mineral additive and the volatile compounds in the flue gas are favored and the mineral additive power to capture at least a portion of the inorganic volatile compounds present in the furnace is enhanced.
Abstract:
Verfahren zur Reduzierung des Schadstoffpotentials in Abgasen und Rückständen von Verbrennungsanlagen. Die Aufgabe liegt darin, ein Verfahren zur Reduzierung der Korrosionsneigung und Schadstoffbildung von Abgasen in Verbrennungsanlagen bei einer Verbrennung von festen Brennstoffen mit stark variierender Chlorbeladung vorzuschlagen, das mit einer Abgasreinigung mit geringeren Überschuss an Neutralisationsmittel auskommt und die Qualität der Verbrennungsrückstände verbessert. Die Aufgabe wird dadurch gelöst, dass bei einer Verbrennung eines ersten Brennstoffstroms (6, 10) mit wechselnder Beladung an einem Schadstoffausgangsstoff zusätzlich mindestens ein zweiter Brennstoffstrom (6, 7) mit einer gleich bleibenden Beladung des Schadstoffausgangsstoff in die Verbrennung zugeführt wird, wobei ein Brennstoffgemisch mit einer konstanten Beladung an dem Schadstoffausgangsstoff entsteht.
Abstract:
Oil shale having a heating value (calorific value) which varies over a relatively wide range is combusted by supplying the oil shale and a further fuel having a greater heating value to a combustor (22). The oil shale is fed to the combustor (22) at a substantially fixed rate, independently of the heating value of the oil shale, and the further fuel is fed to the combustor at a rate which is controlled so that the heating value of the fuel mixture in the combustor remains substantially constant in the face of variations in the heating value of the oil shale. Preferably, the temperature of the combustion products is the parameter used to control the rate at which the further fuel is fed to the combustor.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a method for controlling an NOx concentration in an exhaust gas in a combustion facility that uses a pulverized coal, which can easily control the NOx concentration in the exhaust gas to be discharged from a fuel facility that uses the pulverized coal as the fuel to or below a regulation value according to the Air Pollution Control Law and the like, and can also reduce an amount of a denitrifying agent or the like to be used, which is necessary for the control, by controlling the NOx concentration on the basis of the properties of the pulverized coal beforehand. The invention further includes: measuring a reaction velocity of each of chars corresponding to a plurality of types of pulverized coals beforehand; determining a relationship between the NOx concentration in the exhaust gas and the reaction velocity in advance; blending the plurality of the types of the pulverized coals so that the reaction velocity of the char becomes such a value as to correspond to a target NOx concentration or below, on the basis of the relationship; and supplying the blended pulverized coal to the combustion facility as the fuel of the combustion facility.
Abstract:
A device for cleaning the brazier (21) of heating apparatus, suitable to be fed with solid fuels such as wood, wood pellets and/or oily seeds, like seeds of maize, barley, pumpkin, cereal, etc., and/or biomasses in general, which are measured and mixed before being conveyed inside the brazier (21) of the combustion chamber (22) of a boiler body (16) of the heating apparatus; in particular, the brazier (21) is made in the shape of a basket and presents a horizontal axis (27), around which it rotates at a predetermined time intervals. From the horizontal axis (27) of the brazier (21) depart a plurality of arms (28), radially arranged, which, during the rotary motion, move the unburnt part of the solid fuel from the inner walls of the brazier (21), so that the same cannot solidify on the aforesaid inner walls, but is forced to completely burn or fall, in the form of ash, into a collection container (17) placed below the brazier (21).
Abstract:
A device and method for charging processing plants, in particular, combustion furnaces (1), is disclosed, in which a flowing process material (3), which has solid components (6) in addition to liquid components (5), is introduced into the processing plant (1), by means of a conveyor line (2) under pressure. According to the invention, advantageous charging conditions may be achieved, by means of mixing the process material (3) before pressurisation.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for reducing NOx emissions from the combustion of carbonaceous fuels using three stages of oxidation and second stage in-situ furnace flue gas recirculation. In the first stage, a partial oxidation combustor is used to partially combust the fuel in the presence of heated combustion air. The fuel gas produced in the partial oxidation process is passed to a second stage partial oxidation combustor while molten slag is removed and disposed of. A second preheated combustion air is introduced into the second stage combustor to produce a reducing flue gas and is injected into the furnace in such a way as to create the desired in-situ furnace flue gas recirculation. A third combustion air is mixed with the flue gas in a third stage of combustion to substantially complete the combustion process. Preheated steam may be added to the first or second stages of combustion.