Abstract:
A system for detecting abnormal situations associated with a heater in a process plant receives statistical data associated with the heater unit. The statistical data is analyzed to detect whether one or more abnormal situations associated with the heater exist. The statistical data may comprise statistical data generated based on pressure variables sensed by one or more pressure sensors associated with a furnace, a stack, a fuel supply, etc., associated with the heater. Additionally, the statistical data may comprise statistical data generated based on temperature variables sensed by one. or more temperature sensors associated with the furnace, the stack, etc. If an abnormal situation is detected, an indicator of the abnormal situation may be generated.
Abstract:
A method of determining the amount of air flowing through an outside air damper (24) of a recirculating air heater (10) includes the steps of sensing an amount of airflow flowing through the damper, recording the amount of airflow and a damper position value at a plurality of damper positions, and interpolating a curve relating the amount of airflow to the damper position for all damper positions between a minimum damper position and a maximum damper position. Once the amount of air flowing through the outside air damper is determined from a position on the curve, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) within a building space can be calculated and/or determined to be within acceptable limits.
Abstract:
Erfindungsgemäß wird ein Verfahren zur Ermittlung schwankender Brennstoffeigenschaften (Hu) während des Betriebs einer Kraftwerksanlage angegeben, bei dem anhand von aktuellen Betriebsparametern (P, m, V, p, T) der Kraftwerksanlage ein Wirkungsrad (η) für die Kraftwerksanlage ermittelt wird und aufgrund einer zeitlichen Veränderung des derart ermittelten Wirkungsgrad (η) auf eine Änderung der Brennstoffeigenschaften (Hu) geschlossen wird.
Abstract:
A method of determining the amount of air flowing through an outside air damper of a recirculating air heater includes the steps of sensing an amount of airflow flowing through the damper, recording the amount of airflow and a damper position value at a plurality of damper positions, and interpolating a curve relating the amount of airflow to the damper position for all damper positions between a minimum damper position and a maximum damper position. Once the amount of air flowing through the outside air damper is determined from a position on the curve, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) within a building space can be calculated and/or determined to be within acceptable limits.
Abstract:
Means for obtaining accurate knowledge of location and amount of fouling inside a heat exchange system, such as a boiler of a power plant, are provided. According to the invention this knowledge can be used to optimize cleaning of a heat exchange system. The system of the invention comprises: Means for measuring particles in the exhaust gas stream of the heat exchange system. These particles are at least partly released when cleaning a certain part of the heat exchange surface of the heat exchange system. Means for creating information of the fouling in an electronic memory by linking together coordinates of the part of the heat exchange surface being cleaned and the measurement data created during the cleaning of said part.
Abstract:
A control system for a turbine engine uses at least one fuel injector (20) for injecting fuel in pulses and an electronic control unit (14) to modify pulse duration and/or frequency in response to a deviation from a selected operating function, such as speed.
Abstract:
A boiler comprising a furnace chamber, a passage extending through an aperture 9 in a bottom wall of the chamber and defined by an exterior truncated cone 18 tapering towards a boundary interface 19 with an interior truncated cone 17 also tapering towards the interface, the exterior and interior truncated cones having a substantially common axis, a burner lance 21 extending along the axis through the passage, a burner nozzle 23 mounted at the interior end of said lance, and a substantially circular flame stabilizing disc 24 mounted on the interior end of the lance coaxially with the truncated cones and interiorly of the nozzle and having a central aperture 34 in register with the nozzle for allowing combustion fuel from the nozzle to enter the chamber, the lance being arranged axially displaceable between a first , innermost, position and a second, outermost, position such that the stabilizing disc is located at a distance B from the boundary 19 in a position between the largest and the smallest diameter of the interior truncated cone when the lance is displaced axially to an intermediate position between the innermost position and the outermost position.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus to conduct O 2 /CO 2 combustion or oxygen-enriched combustion. The boiler exhaust gas passes through a Gas Primer Sector (GPS) combined with the boiler to effect heat transfer to the combustion gas in indirect counter-flow heat exchange. Sharply reduced gas flows result from using largely moisture-free CO 2 as diluent for O 2 in the combustion gas which allows long residence time at low velocity for maximum heat transfer from the exhaust gas to the combustion gas. Most particulate drops out and most moisture is condensed from the cooled mostly CO 2 exhaust gas. The larger portion is blended with oxygen for the combustion gas and reheated and returned to the boiler through the integrated GPS; the smaller portion is cleaned and separated, the CO 2 released or recovered. The complete exhaust gas-combustion gas cycle may be 30 to 90 seconds and preferably about 60 seconds. The high heat capacity of CO 2 allows a much higher oxygen content in the combustion gas compared to open-cycle air combustion with a large nitrogen content of lower heat capacity. Efficiency is increased. Final exhaust gas separation and recovery is simplified. Condensate is processed to boiler feedwater or potable water quality. NO x is eliminated, mercury fume captured and CO 2 output reduced.
Abstract:
The present additional control strategy has been developed to allow the gas turbine to operate at lower load or at other conditions where the total fuel required by the gas turbine is not optimum for full combustion of the fuel. The present invention manages air that bypasses the catalytic combustor and air that bleeds off of the compressor discharge. The bypass system changes the fuel air ratio of the catalytic combustor without affecting the overall gas turbine power output. The bleed system also changes the fuel air ratio of the catalytic combustor but at the cost of reducing the overall gas turbine efficiency. The key advantage of a catalytic combustor with a bypass and bleed system and the inventive control strategy is that it can maintain the catalyst at optimum low emissions operating conditions over a wider load range than a catalytic combustor without such a system.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a fossil-fired thermal system such as a power plant (20) or steam generator, and, more particularly, to a method for rapid detection of tube failures (27) and their location within the power plant (20) or steam generator, without need for direct instrumentation, thereby preventing more serious damage and minimizing repair time on the effected heat exchanger (28). This method is applicable to Input/Loss methods of monitoring fossil-fired thermal systems.