Ansaldo Energia S.p.a.

Enel S.p.a.

Ente Nazionale Per L'energia Elettrica

Ansaldo Componenti S.r.l.

Sergio Ligasacchi

Gennaro De Michele

Roberto Rizzi

Marco Alberti

Marcello Martano

Giancarlo Benelli

Aldo Zennaro

Giuseppe Ancona

Giuliano Trebbi

Gianni Mascalzi

Giancarlo Scavizzi

A nozzle for the injection of solid fuel in dust form into a combustion chamber, to be installed in correspondence with the outlet of a burner coaxially to the longitudinal axis of the burner, comprising a stationary annular part divided into coal ducts of a circumferential width that decreases towards outlet section to form coal-dust-rich air streams, a central duct for a coal-dust-poor air stream sideways delimited by the coal ducts and having an outlet end, a central member that is axially mobile within the central duct, for varying the cross section of a central passage delimited by the stationary annular part at the outlet end. Air ducts for the coal-dust-poor air stream are formed between each pair of adjacent coal ducts in the stationary annular part communicating with the central duct and having a circumferential width increasing toward the outlet end. Deflectors for the coal-dust-poor stream are provided at the outlet from the ducts to direct the stream from each air duct in a direction diverging radially from the central duct.

Pulverized coal injection nozzle

A low NOx burner comprising ducts for the primary (6), secondary (7) and tertiary air (14), arranged coaxially around its longitudinal axis, for supplying of the primary, secondary and tertiary air, respectively, to a combustion chamber (3), means for accumulation of the air (5), means to give vorticity to the primary, secondary and tertiary air (11, 15, 27) installed in the respective ducts, means for supply of fuel (23, 32, 43) arranged within said ducts to inject the fuel into said combustion chamber. The axial swirler for the secondary air (11) is formed by a plurality of blades each of which is made up of a stationary part (11a) and a mobile part (11b) connected to actuator means capable of moving it in an angular direction to give an air outlet angle of between 30.degree. and 60.degree.. The axial swirler for the tertiary air is conical in shape and has fixed blades. On the tertiary air duct a passage (16) is formed for supply of secondary and tertiary air.

Three-stage low NOx burner for burning solid, liquid and gaseous fuels

An improved burner (4) for fuel oil and fuel gas with low NOx production, wherein the combustion air is subdivided in three streams and with flow rate control swirlers in each air streams. The stream of primary air is intercepted by a swirler comprising an array of radially fixed tabs (15) mounted in correspondence to the outlet section in the combustion chamber (3), while the secondary and tertiary air swirlers comprise tabs (18, 19) turnable around axes disposed perpendicular and parallel to the central axis of the burner, respectively. The primary and secondary air inlets have a variable, continuously adjustable section. Furthermore, there are provided mass rate meters (24, 25) near the outlet section of the secondary and tertiary air streams in the combustion chamber (3) substantially unaffected by the vorticity induced by said swirlers.

Burner for thermic generators

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San Giuliano Terme, Italy

Sergio Ligasacchi