Industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12385431-B2
Application number	US-202218571617-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2022
Priority date	Dec 22, 2021
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to relates to an industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation and an operating method thereof. Particularly, the industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation includes: a fuel chamber that is provided in the central part of the interior of an injection block surrounded with an output end of the oxidizer supply chamber; an injection block that has a plurality of injection channels where oxidizers are introduced from the oxidizer supply chamber 10 and fuel and the oxidizers are mixed and injected; an orifice for fuel injection that is provided in-between the fuel chamber of the injection block and each of the injection channels, and injects fuel inside the fuel chamber to the injection block; and an internal recirculation tube that is formed to be spaced apart from the outer surface of the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber at a predetermined interval and to extend toward the outlet, and recirculates exhaust gas due to combustion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation, the industrial premixed gas combustor comprising:
an oxidizer supply chamber provided with an oxidizer chamber where oxidizers are supplied, an output end that is open at one end and has a smaller inner diameter than an inner diameter of the oxidizer chamber, and a throttling portion with a gradually decreasing inner diameter in-between the oxidizer chamber and the output end;
an injection block configured to be surrounded with the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber, and having a fuel chamber that is provided in a central part of an interior of the fuel chamber and is supplied with fuel and a plurality of injection channels where the oxidizers are introduced from the oxidizer supply chamber and the fuel and the oxidizers are mixed and injected;
an orifice for fuel injection provided in-between the fuel chamber of the injection block and each of the injection channels, and injecting the fuel inside the fuel chamber to the injection block; and
an internal recirculation tube formed to be spaced apart from an outer surface of the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber at a predetermined interval and to extend toward an outlet, and recirculating exhaust gas due to combustion,
wherein flame is created by the injection channels, and the exhaust gas due to combustion is recirculated and output through a spaced space between the internal recirculation tube and the output end,
wherein the industrial premixed gas combustor is installed in an internal space of a radiant tube for heating the radiant tube and the exhaust gas is recirculated to the internal recirculation tube by a differential pressure in the radiant tube,
wherein the exhaust gas recirculated inside the internal recirculation tube increases a temperature uniformity of the radiant tube, lowers a flame temperature inside the radiant tube, and reduces a concentration of Nox, and
wherein the internal recirculation tube has a body portion that is spaced apart from the outer surface of the output end at a predetermined interval and extends with a constant inner diameter, and an outlet throttling portion that is connected with a front end of the body portion with an inner diameter of the outlet throttling portion gradually reduced toward a front side.

2. The industrial premixed gas combustor of claim 1 , wherein
the internal recirculation tube includes a rear end portion at a rear side of the body portion wherein an inner diameter of the rear end portion is larger than the inner diameter of the body portion and a rear end surface is spaced apart from an inlet end of the throttling portion of the oxidizer supply chamber at a predetermined interval, a rear throttling end that is provided in-between the rear end portion and the body portion with a gradually reduced inner diameter of the rear throttling end, and an expanded end that is provided in-between the outlet throttling portion and the body portion with a gradually increased inner diameter of the expanded end.

3. The industrial premixed gas combustor-using internal exhaust gas of claim 2 , wherein
a flame discharge speed is controlled by adjusting an angle of the outlet throttling portion to improve an exhaust gas mixing by secondary recirculation of a surrounding flow, thereby improving the temperature uniformity of the radiant tube.

4. The industrial premixed gas combustor of claim 3 , wherein
a recirculation amount of exhaust gas to be recirculated to the internal recirculation tube is adjusted by adjusting the predetermined interval between the body portion and the outer surface of the output end, a length of the body portion and a spacing distance between an inner surface of the body portion and the outer surface of the output end.

5. The industrial premixed gas combustor of claim 1 , further comprising:
a moving unit that moves the injection block in a longitudinal direction and adjusts an axial relative position of the injection block in the throttling portion.

6. An operating method of an industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation, the operating method comprising:
supplying oxidizers to an inside of an oxidizer supply chamber, and fuel to a fuel chamber that is provided in a central part of an interior of an injection block surrounded with an output end of the oxidizer supply chamber;
introducing the oxidizers of the oxidizer supply chamber to a plurality of inlet ends of injection channels, in a throttling portion where a diameter between an oxidizer chamber supplied with the oxidizers inside and an output end is gradually reduced;
injecting the fuel inside the fuel chamber to respective injection channels through a plurality of orifices for fuel injection provided in-between the fuel chamber of the injection block and each of the injection channels and mixing the fuel and the oxidizers;
mixing and injecting the fuel and the oxidizers through a discharge end of each of the injection channels; and
recirculating exhaust gas due to combustion through an internal recirculation tube that is formed to be spaced apart from an outer surface of the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber at a predetermined interval and to extend toward an outlet, wherein
the internal recirculation tube includes a body portion that is spaced apart from the outer surface of the output end at a predetermined interval and extends with a constant inner diameter, and an outlet throttling portion that is connected with a front end of the body portion with an inner diameter gradually reduced toward a front side, and the exhaust gas is recirculated and output to an interior of the internal recirculation tube by a differential pressure in a radiant tube.

7. An industrial premixed gas combustor using internal exhaust gas recirculation, the industrial premixed gas combustor comprising:
an oxidizer supply chamber provided with an oxidizer chamber where oxidizers are supplied, an output end that is open at one end and has a smaller inner diameter than an inner diameter of the oxidizer chamber, and a throttling portion with a gradually decreasing inner diameter in-between the oxidizer chamber and the output end;
an injection block configured to be surrounded with the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber, and having a fuel chamber that is provided in a central part of an interior of the fuel chamber and is supplied with fuel and a plurality of injection channels where the oxidizers are introduced from the oxidizer supply chamber and the fuel and the oxidizers are mixed and injected;
an orifice for fuel injection provided in-between the fuel chamber of the injection block and each of the injection channels, and injecting the fuel inside the fuel chamber to the injection block; and
an internal recirculation tube formed to be spaced apart from an outer surface of the output end of the oxidizer supply chamber at a predetermined interval and to extend toward an outlet, and recirculating exhaust gas due to combustion,
wherein the internal recirculation tube has a body portion that is spaced apart from the outer surface of the output end at a predetermined interval and extends with a constant inner diameter, and an outlet throttling portion that is connected with a front end of the body portion with an inner diameter of the outlet throttling portion gradually reduced toward a front side.

Assignees

• Korea Inst Energy Res

Inventors

• Lee Min-Jung
• Guahk Young-Tae
• Ko Chang-Bog
• Lee Eun-Kyung
• Lee Dae Keun
• Kim Seung-Gon
• Jung Woo-Nam
• Lee Hookyung
• Seo Dong Myung
• Kim Nam Su

Classifications

• F23R3/343

  Pilot flames, i.e. fuel nozzles or injectors using only a very small proportion of the total fuel to insure continuous combustion (ignition in gas-turbine plants F02C7/264; pilot flame igniters F23Q9/00) · CPC title

• F23R3/286

  having fuel-air premixing devices (F23R3/30 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F23C9/08

  for reducing temperature in combustion chamber, e.g. for protecting walls of combustion chamber · CPC title

• F23C6/04

  in series connection (consuming smoke or fumes in separate combustion apparatus F23G7/06) · CPC title

• F23D14/68

  Treating the combustion air or gas, e.g. by filtering, or moistening · CPC title