Multi-cavity gas and air mixing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10823400-B2
Application number	US-201415110377-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2014
Priority date	Jan 9, 2014
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

A multi-cavity gas-air mixing device includes at least two mixing cavities each having an air inlet and a mixture outlet communicated with a combustor, wherein each of the mixing cavities has a built-in gas pipeline, each of the gas pipelines is provided with a gas jet, and the orientation of the gas jet is intersected with a flow direction of air entering into the mixing cavities. The device effectively segments the gas-air mixer and achieves a large load regulation ratio, without producing condensate water at any load segment, thereby improving the system reliability and service life. The built-in gas pipeline not only actively controls the fuel in the open-close control pipeline, but also reduces the volume of the mixer and largely decreases the cost.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multi-cavity gas-air mixing device, comprising at least two mixing cavities each having an air inlet and a mixture outlet communicated with a combustor, wherein each of the mixing cavities has a built-in gas pipeline inside, each of the gas pipelines is provided with a gas jet, and the orientation of each gas jet is intersected with a flow direction of air entering into the mixing cavities and the air flow flows over the gas pipelines, and wherein the gas pipelines in the at least two mixing cavities are communicated with each other inside the mixing cavities and the communicated gas pipelines comprise at least one open-close control pipeline, and wherein the communicated gas pipelines further comprise at least one normally open pipeline connected to an external gas delivery pipeline, and a gas on-off valve that controls the open-close control pipeline to be opened and closed is provided between the open-close control pipeline and the normally open pipeline, and the gas on-off valve is positioned at least partially within one of the mixing cavities, and the normally open pipeline has an extension section extending into an interior of the open-close control pipeline and provided with a gas outlet which is in communication with the open-close control pipeline and is controlled by the gas on-off valve to be opened and closed.

2. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the gas on-off valve is a solenoid valve having a seal movably blocking between the open-close control pipeline and the normally open pipeline.

3. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the gas pipeline is provided as being perpendicular to an air flow path of the mixing cavity.

4. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the mixing cavity is of Venturi type, and the Venturi type mixing cavity has a convergent throat segment and a divergent mixing segment.

5. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two mixing cavities are arranged in parallel, the two adjacent mixing cavities are partitioned from each other through a partition board, and the gas pipeline is provided throughout the mixing cavities through a mounting hole opened on the partition board.

6. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein a distributor through which the mixture is evenly delivered to the combustor is provided at an upper portion of the mixing cavity.

7. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 6 , wherein the distributor is a flat plate having a porous structure.

8. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two mixing cavities comprises a first mixing cavity and a second mixing cavity; the built-in gas pipeline of the first mixing cavity is the normally open pipeline and the built-in gas pipeline of the second mixing cavity is the open-close control pipeline.

9. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 8 , wherein the gas jet on each of the normally open and the open-close control pipelines comprises a plurality of gas jets, and a ratio of a sum of areas of the plurality of gas jets on the normally open pipeline to a sum of areas of the plurality of gas jets on the open-close control pipeline is between 1:3 and 1:1.

10. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device according to claim 1 , wherein the open-close control pipeline and the normally open pipeline are coaxial with each other about a longitudinal axis.

11. The multi-cavity gas-air mixing device of claim 10 , wherein the gas outlet is in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the gas on-off valve moves axially along the longitudinal axis to close the gas outlet.

Assignees

• Smith Corp A O

Inventors

• Zhang Shiping
• Bi Dayan
• Wei Ruihong

Classifications

• F23D14/64

  with injectors · CPC title

• F23D14/62

  Mixing devices; Mixing tubes · CPC title

• F23D2203/007

  Mixing tubes, air supply regulation · CPC title

• F23D14/04 Primary

  induction type, e.g. Bunsen burner · CPC title