Pump used in gasification system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9909217-B2
Application number	US-201213404088-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2012
Priority date	Feb 28, 2011
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

Abstract

A pump used in a gasification system, the pump comprises a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a rotor supported within the housing for rotation relative to the housing, the rotor comprising a hub, a plurality of disks spaced apart by sections of the hub, and defining a plurality of transport channels for transporting solid carbonaceous feedstocks for the gasification system, and an interior feedstock facing surface adjacent to the solid carbonaceous feedstocks, wherein at least a portion of the interior feedstock facing surface is coated with a coating.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pump used in a gasification system, comprising:
a housing having an inlet and an outlet; and
a rotor supported within the housing for rotation relative to the housing, the rotor comprising:
a hub;
a plurality of disks spaced apart by sections of the hub, wherein the plurality of disks and the sections of the hub define a plurality of transport channels for transporting solid carbonaceous feedstocks for the gasification system; and
an interior feedstock facing surface adjacent to the solid carbonaceous feedstocks, wherein the interior feedstock facing surface includes a surface defined by the plurality of disks and the sections of the hub, an internal surface of the inlet, and an internal surface of the outlet, wherein the interior feedstock facing surface is coated with an implanted coating applied with ion implantation and further a diffused coating applied with penetration, and wherein at least a portion of the pump is immersed in plasma and at least one positive ion of the plasma is implanted onto the interior feedstock facing surface of the pump during ion implantation.

2. The pump of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the pump is made from nickel, cobalt, or iron-based alloy.

3. The pump of claim 1 , wherein the ion implantation implants at least one positive ion of at least one of vanadium, niobium, and chromium.

4. The pump of claim 1 , wherein the penetration comprises at least one of carburizing, nitriding, and carbonitriding.

5. The pump of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the implanted coating is between 10 nanometers and 50 micrometers.

6. The pump of claim 1 , wherein a hardness of the implanted coating and the diffused coating is above 1500 Hv.

7. The pump of claim 1 , wherein the solid carbonaceous feedstocks comprise at least one of coal, coke, biomass, bitumen, and carbon-containing waste.

8. The pump of claim 1 , wherein the implanted and the diffused coatings are removable and replaceable wear-resistant layer installed on the interior feedstock facing surface.

9. The pump of claim 8 , wherein the wear-resistant layer is installed using fasteners, geometric features, welding, brazing, and/or adhesives.

10. A method for enhancing abrasion resistance of a pump used in a gasification system, the method comprising:
coating an interior feedstock facing surface of the pump with a coating, wherein the interior feedstock facing surface includes an internal surface of a housing of the pump, an internal surface of an inlet of the pump, an internal surface of an outlet of the pump, and a surface defined by a plurality of disks and sections of the hub between the plurality of disks, wherein both the plurality of disks and the sections of the hub are located within the pump, and wherein the coating is applied with ion implantation and further a diffused coating is applied with penetration, the ion implantation comprising:
immersing at least a portion of the pump in plasma; and
implanting at least one positive ion of the plasma onto the interior feedstock facing surface of the pump.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the ion implantation further comprises:
taking the pump as a negative pole and an implanting member comprising an element to be implanted into the pump as a positive pole; and
imposing a voltage to urge electrons in the plasma to move to the positive pole and the at least one positive ion of the plasma to move to the pump such that the at least one positive ion is implanted onto the interior feedstock facing surface of the pump.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the voltage is a pulse voltage ranging from approximately 10 MeV to approximately 20 MeV.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein implanting the at least one positive ion into the pump comprises implanting at least one positive ion of at least one of vanadium, niobium, and chromium.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein a thickness of the implanted coating is between 10 nanometers and 50 micrometers.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the penetration includes carburizing for about 1˜2 hours under a temperature of approximately 920˜940° C. and a pressure of approximately 50˜100 Pa.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein a thickness of the diffused coating is less than approximately 2 millimeters.

17. The method of claim 10 , further comprising annealing the pump between the ion implantation and the penetration.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the implanted and the diffused coatings are removable and replaceable wear-resistant layer installed on the interior feedstock facing surface through fasteners, geometric features, welding, brazing, and/or adhesives.

Assignees

• Corry Judeth Brannon
• Storey James Michael
• Guo Minghu
• Chen Wei
• Zeng Cai
• Zhao Richard L
• Russell Steven Craig
• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Corry Judeth Brannon
• Storey James Michael
• Guo Minghu
• Chen Wei
• Zeng Cai
• Zhao Richard L
• Russell Steven Craig

Classifications

• C23C8/22

  of ferrous surfaces · CPC title

• C10J2200/15

  Details of feeding means · CPC title

• C10J2300/0946

  Waste, e.g. MSW, tires, glass, tar sand, peat, paper, lignite, oil shale · CPC title

• C23C8/20

  Carburising · CPC title

• C23C30/00 Primary

  Coating with metallic material characterised only by the composition of the metallic material, i.e. not characterised by the coating process (C23C26/00, C23C28/00 take precedence) · CPC title