Nozzle bottom arrangement for a dryer and a method for operating said dryer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9528762-B2
Application number	US-201313963258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2013
Priority date	Feb 15, 2011
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a nozzle bottom device and to a method for operating the latter. The nozzle bottom arrangement has a nozzle group with first nozzles and a further nozzle group with second nozzles. The two nozzle groups can be supplied independently of each other with a fluidizing medium. The respective volumetric flow can be switched on and off or can be adjusted variably. The first nozzles and the second nozzles are uniformly distributed over the entire surface of the nozzle bottom arrangement. As a result, a homogeneous fluidized bed is produced in the fluidized bed dryer irrespective of whether only one of the nozzle groups or all of the nozzles is or are operated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A nozzle bottom arrangement for a dryer for drying solid particles, said arrangement comprising:
at least one nozzle bottom segment which has a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles,
wherein the first nozzles and the second nozzles are distributed over the surface of the nozzle bottom segment,
wherein a fluidizing medium can be supplied to the first nozzles and the second nozzles independently of one another,
the nozzle bottom segment having a plurality of nozzle bars which run substantially parallel to one another and on which first nozzles and second nozzles are in each case arranged,
a first nozzle channel which runs in the nozzle bar and into which the first nozzles open, and a second nozzle channel which runs parallel to the first nozzle channel and into which the second nozzles open; and
the nozzle bar defining a pipe, the two nozzle channels being separated fluidically from each other in the interior of the pipe by a partition.

2. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the height of the nozzle bar is greater than the width thereof.

3. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the number of first nozzles and the number of second nozzles on the nozzle bar is identical.

4. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzles are screwed onto the nozzle bar.

5. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first nozzles and the second nozzles are offset with respect to one another in the longitudinal direction of the nozzle bar.

6. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzle channels are fluidically closed at one end of the nozzle bar.

7. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , further comprising a connecting piece, the connecting piece defining an outlet mouth, the nozzle bar having an inlet mouth which is connected fluidically to the outlet mouth of the connecting piece.

8. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 7 , wherein a first connecting channel connected fluidically to the first nozzle channel and a second connecting channel connected fluidically to the second nozzle channel run in the connecting piece.

9. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 7 , wherein the connecting piece has a first distributor line opening fluidically into the first connecting channel and a second distributor line opening into the second connecting channel.

10. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first nozzles are connected fluidically to a first distributor chamber and the second nozzles are connected fluidically to a second distributor chamber.

11. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 10 , wherein a supply line opens into the first distributor chamber and a further supply line opens into the second distributor chamber, in order to supply the distributor chambers with fluidizing medium.

12. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 11 , wherein the cross section of the distributor chamber tapers from the discharging point of the supply line in the direction of extension of the distributor chamber.

13. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 11 , wherein the supply lines of a plurality of distributor chambers open into a common supply chamber.

14. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the volumetric flow of the fluidizing medium to the first nozzles is adjustable via a valve arrangement independently of the volumetric flow of the fluidizing medium to the second nozzles.

15. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 11 , further comprising a separately activatable valve arranged in each supply line.

16. The nozzle bottom arrangement according to claim 14 , further comprising a separately activatable valve arranged in each supply line.

17. A method for operating a nozzle bottom arrangement of a dryer for drying ground solid particles, the nozzle bottom arrangement comprising at least one nozzle bottom segment which has a plurality of first nozzles and a plurality of second nozzles which are distributed over the surface of the nozzle bottom segment and which are fluidically separated from one another, the nozzle bottom segment having a plurality of nozzle bars which run substantially parallel to one another and on which first nozzles and second nozzles are in each case arranged, a first nozzle channel which runs in the nozzle bar and into which the first nozzles open, and a second nozzle channel which runs parallel to the first nozzle channel and into which the second nozzles open the nozzle bar defining a pipe, the two nozzle channels being separated fluidically from each other in the interior of the pipe by a partition,
said method comprising:
supplying a fluidizing medium to the first nozzles and the second nozzles independently of one another,
determining at least one current operating parameter of the dryer, and
adjusting the flow of the fluidizing medium to the first nozzles and/or the flow of the fluidizing medium to the second nozzles in a manner adapted to the at least one operating parameter of the dryer.

Assignees

• Alstom Technology Ltd
• General Electric Technology Gmbh

Inventors

• Thaler Bernd
• Schommer Hans Peter

Classifications

• F26B3/082

  arrangements of devices for distributing fluidising gas, e.g. grids, nozzles (F26B3/0926 takes precedence; such devices per se B01J8/44) · CPC title

• B01J8/44

  Fluidisation grids · CPC title

• F26B17/10 Primary

  with movement performed by fluid currents, e.g. issuing from a nozzle, {e.g. pneumatic, flash, vortex or entrainment dryers}(F26B3/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B01J8/1818 Primary

  Feeding of the fluidising gas (B01J8/44 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B01J2208/00902

  Nozzle-type feeding elements · CPC title