Fluidized bed gasification furnace

{
  "publication_number": "US9709270B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Fluidized bed gasification furnace",
  "abstract": "A fluidized bed gasification furnace includes a control device that identifies a defective fluidization spot of a fluidized bed based on distribution of temperatures detected by a plurality of temperature sensors, temporarily increases an amount of supplied combustion gas to air boxes located below the identified defective fluidization spot, and increases a speed of discharge of noncombustibles and a fluidization medium discharged by an extruder.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A fluidized bed gasification furnace comprising: a plurality of air boxes installed in parallel; a fluidized bed formed by fluidizing a fluidization medium using combustion gas fed into the furnace via the air boxes; a plurality of temperature sensors detecting temperatures at different positions in the fluidized bed; a noncombustible discharge device that is installed below the fluidized bed and has an extruder that discharges the fluidization medium discharged from the fluidized bed and mixed-in noncombustibles and includes a first inclined plane that gradually rises in a forward movement direction of the extruder and a bottom face that supports the fluidization medium and the noncombustibles discharged from the fluidized bed; a passage between a fluidized bed gasification furnace main body and the noncombustible discharge device; a cooler that cools the noncombustibles in the passage and prevents a reduction in a repose angle of the noncombustibles in the bottom face along with the first inclined plane; and a control device that identifies a defective fluidization spot of the fluidized bed based on distribution of the temperatures detected by the plurality of temperature sensors, temporarily increases an amount of supplied combustion gas to the air boxes located below the identified defective fluidization spot, and increases a speed of discharge of the noncombustibles and the fluidization medium discharged by the extruder, wherein: the plurality of temperature sensors include a first temperature sensor group having a plurality of temperature sensors installed in a depth direction of the fluidized bed, including at least one temperature sensor located in the fluidized bed in the event of startup of the fluidized bed gasification furnace, and a second temperature sensor group having a plurality of temperature sensors installed in an arrangement direction of the air boxes, the control device identifies the defective fluidization spot based on the temperature distribution of the depth direction which is based on results detected by the first temperature sensor group and the temperature distribution of the arrangement direction of the air boxes which is based on results detected by the second temperature sensor group, the control device controls the discharge speed of the noncombustibles by fixing forward and backward movement times of the extruder and changing a stop time of the extruder, the noncombustible discharge device is formed with a second inclined plane for flowing the noncombustibles toward the front on an extension line of the passage, an insertion hole into which the extruder is inserted is formed through a lower portion of the second inclined plane, and the noncombustible discharge device includes the horizontal bottom face so that the extruder can be movable back and forth to slide the horizontal bottom face, and the first inclined plane that is formed in a shape of an arc that is smoothly connected to the horizontal bottom face.",
    "2. The fluidized bed gasification furnace according to claim 1, further comprising: a pressure detector that detects pressure of each of the plurality of air boxes, wherein the control device temporarily increases the amount of supplied combustion gas to the air boxes, increases the discharge speed of the extruder, then acquires the pressures in the air boxes from results detected by the pressure detector, and restores the increased amount of supplied combustion gas and the increased discharge speed of the extruder to an original state when the pressures are within a preset normal operation range.",
    "3. The fluidized bed gasification furnace according to claim 1, wherein the cooler is a water-cooled jacket structure which provides an indirect water cooling."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates to a fluidized bed gasification furnace having a noncombustible discharge device.\n\nConventionally, gasification and ash melting systems are known as technologies which can be widely used for treating wastes such as not only municipal wastes, but also noncombustible wastes, burned residues, sludge, buried wastes. Such a gasification and ash melting system includes a gasification furnace which pyrolyzes and gasifies the wastes, a melting furnace that is provided at a downstream side of the gasification furnace, burns a pyrolysis gas generated in the gasification furnace at a high temperature, and converts ash in the gas into a molten slag, and a secondary combustion chamber in which an exhaust gas discharged from the melting furnace is burnt. To convert the wastes into a resource, to melt the wastes less, and to render the wastes harmless, the slag is extracted from the melting furnace and is recycled as construction materials such as a road bed material, or waste heat is recovered from the exhaust gas discharged from the secondary combustion chamber and produces electric power.\n\nIn the gasification furnace of this gasification and ash melting system, a fluidized bed gasification furnace is frequently used. The fluidized bed gasification furnace is a device in which a fluidized bed is formed by feeding combustion gas to a bottom of the furnace to fluidize a fluidization medium, which partially burns the wastes charged into the fluidized bed, and pyrolyzes the wastes in the fluidized bed which is maintained at a high temperature by the heat of combustion.",
  "cpc": [
    "F23N 1/022",
    "F23G 2207/1015",
    "F23G 5/0276",
    "F23G 5/30",
    "F23G 5/50",
    "F23J 1/02",
    "F23J 2900/01009"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "F23G 5/027",
    "F23G 5/50",
    "F23N 1/02",
    "F23G 5/30",
    "F23J 1/02",
    "F23N 5/18"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental and Chemical Engineering Co Ltd"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Jun Sato",
    "Toshimasa Shirai",
    "Yoshihisa Saito",
    "Norio Yoshimitsu",
    "Yasunori Terabe"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2011-03-11",
  "publication_date": "2017-07-18",
  "grant_date": "2017-07-18",
  "priority_date": "2011-03-11",
  "application_number": "US-201114000651-A",
  "family_id": "46830157",
  "cited_by_count": 1,
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