Abstract:
A burner head including a blast tube (3) and a device for controlling the air flow through the blast tube (3), the flow controlling device comprising a flow constrictor (11) which is alterable between a first configuration and a second configuration in which the flow constrictor (11) extends radially across an annular portion of the blast tube (3) to reduce the cross-sectional area in the blast tube (3) available for unobstructed air flow.
Abstract:
An air damper assembly for a coal-fired furnace in which a damper sleeve (50) extends between two spaced walls (30, 32) adjacent the furnace in a manner to define an air inlet (52). A threaded support member (54A, 54B) is connected to the damper (50), and a threaded shaft (56) is in threaded engagement with the support member (54A, 54B). Rotation of the shaft (56) causes corresponding movement of the support member (54A, 54B), and therefore the damper (50), to vary the size of the opening and therefore the amount of air introduced into the furnace.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for burning fuel in an annular-nozzle burner (11) wherein a compact flame (27) is generated by inhibiting the dispersion of fuel particles and concentrating the fuel particles in a primary combustion area having a high rate of radiant heat transfer between the fuel particles by maintaining a sufficiently high velocity of the fuel particles and causing them to undergo essentially linear flow in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the burner.
Abstract:
The windbox burner has a register casing (2) with ports (3) for inflow of combustion air, a secondary air pipe (35) enclosed by the register casing and having inlet ports (36) for secondary air, a ring damper (20) coaxial with the register casing and axially displaceable and having at each end an annular sealing means (21; 26) which in the closed position of the ring damper sealingly abuts a corresponding sealing means (23; 22) at each axial end of the ports (3), thus preventing the combustion air from flowing through the ports (3) to the burner tip. Each of the sealing means (21, 23; 22, 26) is made of a stainless and heat-resistant material, and each pair of sealing means is constituted by a plane leaf spring (23; 26) the plane of which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the ring damper (20), and a ring (21; 22) with a convex surface on which the leaf spring abuts tangentially in the closed position of the ring damper.
Abstract:
A burner apparatus and method for the combustion of a fuel and an oxidizer includes a burner block (7) having a fuel line (1) for feeding fuel to a fuel port opening (12) into a combustion chamber and a plurality of oxidizer lines (32, 33, 34) positioned around the fuel line (1) for feeding an oxidizer to oxidizer ports (17, 18, 19, 20) to the combustion chamber for combustion with the fuel from the fuel port (12). The oxidizer lines and ports (13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, 18, 19, 20) are spaced around the fuel port (12) so that controlling the oxidizer is used to change the position and shape of the flame in the combustion chamber. Oxidizer control valves (36, 37, 38, 39) vary the amount of oxidizer fed through the oxidizer line so that the oxidizer control valves (36, 37, 38, 39) for each set of oxidizer lines are spaced around the fuel port (12) to allow both the position and shape of the burner flame to be controlled.
Abstract:
The two scrolls (22) forming air inlet slot (20) are each formed of a fixed vane (36) and a floating vane (38). The thin and hot floating vane (38) is secured to the massive and cooler fixed vane (36) with a longitudinal slidable joint (42). The floating vane may expand without restraint of the fixed vane, so that buckling is avoided and inlet slot (20) is uniform.
Abstract:
With a combustion device and corresponding method for low-NOx and low-CO combustion, with largely separate feeds of fuel (4) and combustion air (5) to the combustion chamber, the entire or the greatest part of the combustion air is fed to the combustion chamber (2) in continuous gradation over numerous points in the chamber.
Abstract:
A swirl adjusting device for air and combustion gases has a plurality of flexible tubes (3) with free ends (4) adjacent to the burner nozzle (2). The inclination of said free ends (4) in relation to the axis (9) of the burner may be adjusted during operation of the same. For that purpose, the ends of the flexible tubes (3) away from the burner nozzle are mounted in a common support (5) which is rotatively and/or axially movably mounted in the burner housing. The free ends (4) of the flexible tubes may also be swivelled and/or moved in their axial direction in the primary air channel.
Abstract:
Device for mixing gas, liquids or pulverised solid substances with a gas flow (1), whirling (vortex) around an axis in the flow direction. The whirling gas flow is guided through a converging passage (4) and, during or after being charged with the substance, abruptly widens in cylindrical space (11), as a result of which vortex break down occurs and an exceptionally thorough mixing and/or atomizing of the substance is obtained. Application in a burner improves the combustion result, keeps the NOX-values low and prevents the flame from being blown off.
Abstract:
A fuel burner capable of producing low NOX emission includes a duct (1, 2) through which combustion air is supplied, a nozzle (14) in the duct and a diverter valve (20) which is displaceable between a first position in which all the air in the duct and a proportion of combustion gases enter the nozzle and a second position in which a portion of the air in the duct bypasses the nozzle.