Gas cooler, gasification furnace, and integrated gasification combined cycle for carbon-containing fuel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9541289-B2
Application number	US-201214113277-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2012
Priority date	Jul 14, 2011
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a gas cooler for cooling a produced gas on a side from which the produced gas exits, the produced gas being produced by partially oxidizing and gasifying a carbon-containing fuel in a gasification furnace inside a pressure vessel. A distance (SL) between tubes of a tube bundle of a heat exchanger provided inside the gas cooler is set such that the tubes are in contact with each other or adjacent to each other in a gas-flow direction of the produced gas. Since the tubes are in contact with each other or adjacent to each other, a particle flowing with the gas flow is only deposited as a deposited particle in a concave portion between the tubes, whereby the decrease in heat exchange efficiency caused by particle deposition can be suppressed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pressure vessel comprising:
a gasification furnace that partially oxidizes and gasifies a pulverized coal and discharges gasified gas as a produced gas; and
a gas cooler including a flue gas duct that communicates with the gasification furnace and through which the produced gas passes, wherein
the gas cooler includes a heat exchanger provided in the flue gas duct, the heat exchanger including a group of tubes arrayed along a gas-flow direction of the produced gas passing through the flue gas duct, and
a ratio (SL/d) of a distance (SL) in the gas-flow direction of the produced gas between the tubes constituting the group of tubes to an outer diameter (d) of the tube is larger than 1 and 1.4 or smaller, such that dust particles of the produced gas are deposited only in a concave portion between the tubes.

2. The pressure vessel according to claim 1 , wherein
a temperature of the produced gas inside the gas cooler is equal to an ash melting point or lower, and
a dust concentration of the produced gas from the gasification furnace falls within a range of 50 g/m 3 to 20,000 g/m 3 .

3. The pressure vessel according to claim 1 , wherein pressure inside the pressure vessel is 0.5 MPa to 10 MPa.

4. An integrated gasification combined cycle for a carbon-containing fuel comprising:
the pressure vessel according to claim 1 ;
a gas turbine equipment to which the produced gas obtained in the pressure vessel is supplied as a fuel; and
an exhausted heat recovery steam generator for recovering exhausted heat from a flue gas generated from the gas turbine equipment.

5. The integrated gasification combined cycle for a carbon-containing fuel according to claim 4 , further comprising a steam turbine equipment to which obtained steam is supplied.

Assignees

• Shibata Yasunari
• Shinada Osamu
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Shibata Yasunari
• Shinada Osamu

Classifications

• C10J2300/0906

  Physical processes, e.g. shredding, comminuting, chopping, sorting · CPC title

• F01K23/068

  in combination with an oxygen producing plant, e.g. an air separation plant · CPC title

• Y02P20/129

  Energy recovery, e.g. by cogeneration, H2recovery or pressure recovery turbines · CPC title

• F23J15/06 Primary

  of coolers · CPC title

• C10J3/86

  combined with waste-heat boilers · CPC title