Kiln system and method for firing ceramsite and by-producing waste heat by utilizing raw materials with heating values

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12264879-B2
Application number	US-202217585591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2022
Priority date	Jan 27, 2021
Publication date	Apr 1, 2025
Grant date	Apr 1, 2025

Abstract

A kiln system is provided, including a drying section, a preheating section, a firing section, a soaking section, a cooling section, and a decarburization section arranged between the drying section and the preheating section. The decarburization section includes an ignition zone, a hot air combustion/pyrolysis zone, and a waste heat recovery pipeline. A heat source is introduced into the ignition zone so that the temperature of the ceramsite of the raw materials with heating values in the zone is 400° C. to 900° C. The hot air combustion/pyrolysis zone is configured for combusting or pyrolyzing carbon-containing materials and organic components in the raw materials with heating values in the ceramsite. The waste heat recovery pipeline is configured for discharging decarburization exhaust gas and recovering heat released after the raw materials with heating values in the ceramsite are combusted or pyrolyzed in the decarburization exhaust gas.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A kiln system for firing ceramsite and by-producing waste heat by utilizing raw materials with heating values, comprising a drying section, a preheating section, a firing section, a soaking section, a cooling section, and a decarburization section arranged between the drying section and the preheating section,
wherein the decarburization section comprises an ignition zone, a hot air combustion zone and a waste heat recovery pipeline; alternatively the decarburization section comprises the ignition zone, a pyrolysis zone and the waste heat recovery pipeline;
wherein a heat source is introduced into the ignition zone so that a temperature of the ceramsite of the raw materials with heating values in the ignition zone is 400° C. to 900° C.,
the hot air combustion zone or the pyrolysis zone is configured for combusting or pyrolyzing carbon-containing materials and organic components in the raw materials with heating values in the ceramsite, and
the waste heat recovery pipeline is configured for discharging decarburization exhaust gas and recovering heat released after the raw materials with heating values in the ceramsite are combusted or pyrolyzed in the decarburization exhaust gas.

2. The kiln system according to claim 1 , wherein a kiln of the kiln system is a belt type roasting machine or a static roasting tunnel kiln.

3. The kiln system according to claim 2 , wherein the drying section is divided into a blast drying section and a draft drying section, wherein
the blast drying section utilizes a hot air selected from the group consisting of a hot air coming from the cooling section, a hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, a mixture of the hot air coming from the cooling section and the hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, and a hot air produced by mixing an exhaust gas discharged by the firing section and the soaking section with cold air to cool down to 250° C. to 400° C.; and
the draft drying section utilizes a hot air discharged by the preheating section or the hot air discharged by the firing section and the soaking section.

4. The kiln system according to claim 2 , wherein after the ceramsite passes through the decarburization section, a heating value of the ceramsite at an outlet of the decarburization section is not higher than 400 kJ/kg.

5. The kiln system according to claim 1 , wherein
the heat source of the ignition zone comes from a hot air drawn out from the preheating section and/or the firing section,
or
an ignition nozzle is arranged in the ignition zone, wherein the ignition nozzle is configured for providing the heat source for the ignition zone.

6. The kiln system according to claim 5 , wherein the drying section is divided into a blast drying section and a draft drying section, wherein
the blast drying section utilizes a hot air selected from the group consisting of a hot air coming from the cooling section, a hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, a mixture of the hot air coming from the cooling section and the hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, and a hot air produced by mixing an exhaust gas discharged by the firing section and the soaking section with cold air to cool down to 250° C. to 400° C.; and
the draft drying section utilizes the hot air discharged by the preheating section or the hot air discharged by the firing section and the soaking section.

7. The kiln system according to claim 5 , wherein after the ceramsite passes through the decarburization section, a heating value of the ceramsite at an outlet of the decarburization section is not higher than 400 kJ/kg.

8. The kiln system according to claim 1 , wherein the hot air combustion zone or the pyrolysis zone is provided with a blast pipeline, wherein the blast pipeline is configured for blowing in a hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline.

9. The kiln system according to claim 8 , wherein the drying section is divided into a blast drying section and a draft drying section, wherein
the blast drying section utilizes a hot air selected from the group consisting of a hot air coming from the cooling section, the hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, a mixture of the hot air coming from the cooling section and the hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, and a hot air produced by mixing an exhaust gas discharged by the firing section and the soaking section with cold air to cool down to 250° C. to 400° C.; and
the draft drying section utilizes a hot air discharged by the preheating section or the hot air discharged by the firing section and the soaking section.

10. The kiln system according to claim 8 , wherein after the ceramsite passes through the decarburization section, a heating value of the ceramsite at an outlet of the decarburization section is not higher than 400 kJ/kg.

11. The kiln system according to claim 1 , wherein the drying section is divided into a blast drying section and a draft drying section, wherein
the blast drying section utilizes a hot air selected from the group consisting of a hot air coming from the cooling section, a hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, a mixture of the hot air coming from the cooling section and the hot air heated by the waste heat recovery pipeline, and a hot air produced by mixing an exhaust gas discharged by the firing section and the soaking section with a cold air to cool down to 250° C. to 400° C.; and
the draft drying section utilizes a hot air discharged by the preheating section or a hot air discharged by the firing section and the soaking section.

12. The kiln system according to claim 1 , wherein after the ceramsite passes through the decarburization section, a heating value of the ceramsite at an outlet of the decarburization section is not higher than 400 kJ/kg.

13. A method for firing ceramsite and by-producing waste heat by utilizing raw materials with heating values, comprising:
batching and then pelletizing the raw materials with heating values and auxiliary raw materials to form raw pellets with an average grain size of 3 mm to 15 mm;
spreading the raw pellets on a kiln car or a trolley to form a raw material layer with a height of 300 mm to 500 mm, and arranging fired and returned ceramsite under and at both sides of the raw material layer;
sending the kiln car into the kiln system according to claim 1 to pass through the drying section, the decarburization section, the preheating section, the firing section, the soaking section, and the cooling section to prepare ceramsite with a bulk density of 0.5-1.5 g/cm3; and at the same time, recovering waste heat in the decarburization section through the waste heat recovery pipeline.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the raw materials with heating values are solid wastes with heating values of 500 kJ/kg to 8,500 kJ/kg, and/or waste coke and cinder with heating values of 8,500 kJ/kg to 30,000 kJ/kg,
wherein the solid wastes with the heating values of 500 kJ/kg to 8,500 kJ/kg comprise coal gangue, coal slime, fly ash, slag, fluidized bed ash, coal gasification ash, oil sludge, sludge, oil shale, organic solid wastes and/or domestic garbage.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein
when the raw materials with heating values and the auxiliary raw materials are batched:
if a heating value content of the raw materials with heating values is 500 kJ/kg to 8,500 kJ/kg, a content of the solid wastes is 30% to 100%; and
if the heating value content is 8,500 kJ/kg to 30,000 kJ/kg, the content of the solid wastes is 0.5% to 25%; and
a heating value of the raw pellets is

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Science & Technology
• Shandong Econ Energy Saving Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Yu
• Yao Changqing

Classifications

• F27D17/102

  including pyrolising the waste gases · CPC title

• F27B2009/124

  Cooling · CPC title

• F27B2009/122

  Preheating · CPC title

• F27B9/12 Primary

  with special arrangements for preheating or cooling the charge · CPC title

• F27D17/10 Primary

  Arrangements for using waste heat · CPC title