Modifying transport air to control NOX

a technology of transport air and nox, which is applied in the direction of emission prevention, combustion types, lighting and heating apparatus, etc., can solve the problems of limit on the production of emissions such as nitrogen oxides

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-11-04
PRAXAIR TECH INC
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[0011]pulverizing in said pulverizer solid carbonaceous fuel containing bound nitrogen which has a moisture content sufficiently higher than said predetermined moisture content value or a specific energy content sufficiently lower than said predetermined specific energy content value, as the case may be, that attaining at least said given combustion rate when said fuel is pulverized, mixed with air, fed to said burner, and combusted at said burner, requires increasing the feed rate to said burner of the air in said mixture thereby producing an amount of NOx higher than said given amount,

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Many industrial combustion systems operate within constraints imposed by the equipment and by legal regulatory requirements.
Equipment constraints include minimum and maximum feed rates of fuel and oxidant, and legal regulatory requirements include limitations on production of emissions such as nitrogen oxides.

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[0046]In this example, a bituminous coal is assumed to be pulverized in a conventional pulverizer and combined with air at a mass ratio of transport air to fuel (TaF) of 1.8. The coal is assumed to have a moisture content of 8.5 wt. %. The moisture in the coal is reduced to 2.7 wt. % by combining it with air at a temperature of 500° F. in the pulverizer. The resulting stream of air and pulverized coal leaves the pulverizer at a temperature of 180° F.

[0047]If the same coal is then assumed to have an initial moisture content of 15 wt. %, then to reach the same final moisture content of 2.7 wt. % the amount of air at 500° F. fed to the pulverizer and combined with the fuel must be increased so that the TaF ratio of air to fuel increases to 2.0. This increase in the amount of air and, thus, the amount of oxygen being fed to the burner would be expected to cause an increase in the production of NOx upon combustion of this fuel.

[0048]In accordance with this invention, adding preheated nit...

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[0049]This example shows the effect of switching from a bituminous coal to a subbituminous coal, having a lower specific energy value. The increased moisture content as well as the lower specific energy content of the subbituminous coal requires that a higher amount of coal be pulverized and fed to the burner to achieve the same rate of energy production in the combustion chamber. If this increased flow rate of fuel to the combustion chamber is achieved without increasing the TaF ratio, then much more oxygen will be fed into the combustion chamber because of the increased air flow, leading to increased production of NOx. If instead it is assumed that the same degree of moisture removal is achieved, even then the TaF must increase again leading to production of increased amounts of NOx. The calculations presented in Table 2 again illustrate that adding nitrogen to the transport air, rather than increasing the amount of transport air, would be expected to produce less NOx.

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Abstract

Using oxygen-lean gas as the transport medium in which pulverized fuel solids are conveyed to the burner of a combustion system permits combustion at levels of combustion rate and NOx production under circumstances under which those levels would not be attainable if the transport medium were air.

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[0001]This application claims priority from U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 852,904, filed Oct. 19, 2006, the entire content of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.[0002]This invention was made with United States Government support under Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC26-00NT40756 awarded by the Department of Energy. The United States Government has certain rights in the invention.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]This invention relates to combustion of fuel solids that are fed to a combustion chamber suspended in a stream of transport air. Such a stream is typically produced in a pulverizer prior to being fed to the combustion chamber.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]Many industrial combustion systems operate within constraints imposed by the equipment and by legal regulatory requirements. Equipment constraints include minimum and maximum feed rates of fuel and oxidant, and legal regulatory requirements include limitations on production of emissions such as nitrogen...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): F23K1/00F23L7/00F23K3/02
CPCF23J2215/101F23K1/00F23K3/02F23K2201/1003F23K2201/103Y02E20/344F23L2900/07007F23N1/082F23N2021/00F23N2039/02F23L2900/07003F23N2221/00F23N2239/02Y02E20/34
Inventor BOOL, III, LAWRENCE E.KOBAYASHI, HISASHI
Owner PRAXAIR TECH INC
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