JP5568996B2 - Burner equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a burner device that burns an air-fuel mixture of an oxidant and fuel.

Fine particles (particulate matter) are contained in exhaust gas such as diesel engines. In recent years, a filter (DPF) for removing particulates in exhaust gas has been installed in vehicles equipped with diesel engines, etc., because there is concern about the environmental impact of releasing the particulates into the atmosphere. Has been.
This filter is formed of ceramics or the like, which is a porous body having a plurality of pores smaller than the fine particles, and collects the fine particles by preventing the fine particles from passing therethrough.

However, when such a filter is used for a long time, the collected fine particles are accumulated and the filter becomes clogged.
In order to prevent such clogging of the filter, for example, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, a method of burning and removing particulates collected in the filter by supplying a high-temperature gas to the filter is known. It is used.

  Specifically, in Patent Document 1, a burner device is installed between a diesel engine and a filter, a gas mixture in which exhaust gas and fuel are mixed is burned to generate a hot gas, and the hot gas is used as a filter. The fine particles are burned by supplying.

JP 2007-154772 A

By the way, in the burner device, the fuel injected from the fuel injection device is mixed with exhaust gas or outside air supplied as an oxidant to generate an air-fuel mixture, and the air-fuel mixture is heated to an ignition temperature or higher by an ignition device. To burn. And combustion is continued by hold | maintaining the flame produced | generated by the said combustion.
However, when the flow rate of the oxidant or the like supplied to the ignition device is high, the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the combustion region increases, and the combustion state in the combustion region may become unstable.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a burner device that can stabilize the combustion state of an air-fuel mixture and can stably generate high-temperature gas.

  The present invention adopts the following configuration as means for solving the above-described problems.

  A first aspect of the invention is a burner device that burns an air-fuel mixture of an oxidant and fuel, wherein the air-fuel mixture includes an ignition region that ignites the air-fuel mixture and a flame holding region that maintains the combustion of the air-fuel mixture A partition member that divides the air-fuel mixture and adjusts the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture supplied from the ignition region to the flame-holding region, and an oxidant intake means that directly takes the oxidant into the flame-holding region. Adopt the configuration.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the internal space further includes a tube portion that is divided into the ignition region and the flame holding region by the partition member, and the oxidant intake means includes the oxidant The structure of being the wall end part of the said tube part arrange | positioned in the flow path which flows is employ | adopted.

  According to the present invention, the ignition region and the flame holding region are divided by the partition member so that the air-fuel mixture can be vented. For this reason, it becomes possible to adjust the flow velocity of the air-fuel mixture supplied from the ignition region to the flame holding region. Therefore, the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the flame holding region can be adjusted to a flow rate at which combustion is stabilized in the flame holding region.

  In order to further stabilize the combustion in the flame holding region, it is preferable to supply the oxidizing agent directly to the flame holding region separately from the air-fuel mixture. On the other hand, according to the present invention, the oxidant is directly supplied to the flame-holding region by the oxidant intake means. For this reason, combustion in the flame holding region can be further stabilized.

  Thus, according to the present invention, the combustion state of the air-fuel mixture is stabilized. For this reason, it becomes possible to produce | generate a high temperature gas stably.

It is sectional drawing which shows schematic structure of the burner apparatus in 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a front view which shows the edge part of the partition member with which the burner apparatus in 1st Embodiment of this invention is provided. It is sectional drawing which shows the modification of the burner apparatus in 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows schematic structure of the burner apparatus in 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the modification of the burner apparatus of this invention.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a burner device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following drawings, the scale of each member is appropriately changed in order to make each member a recognizable size.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a schematic configuration of the burner device S1 of the present embodiment.
This burner device S1 is connected to an exhaust port of a device that exhausts exhaust gas such as a diesel engine arranged on the upstream side, and mixes the supplied exhaust gas X (oxidant) and fuel and burns it. This is for generating the gas Z and supplying the high-temperature gas Z to the downstream filter, and is disposed, for example, between the diesel engine and the particulate filter.
And this burner apparatus S1 is provided with the supply flow path 1 and the combustion part 2. FIG.

  The supply flow path 1 is a flow path for supplying exhaust gas X supplied from a device such as a diesel engine directly to a filter, one end of which is connected to an exhaust port of a device such as a diesel engine, The other end is constituted by a cylindrical pipe connected to the filter.

  The combustion unit 2 is connected to the supply flow path 1 and generates a high-temperature gas by mixing and burning a part of the exhaust gas X flowing through the supply flow path 1 and fuel inside. The combustion unit 2 includes a tube unit 4, a fuel supply unit 5, an ignition device 7, a partition member 8, and an auxiliary combustion air supply device 9.

  The tube part 4 is a tubular member that forms the outer shape of the combustion part 2, and the inside is hollow. As will be described in detail later, the inside of the tubular body portion 4 is divided into an exhaust gas passage region R1, an ignition region R2, and a flame holding region R3 by a partition member 8. And the pipe part 4 is connected with the supply flow path 1 from the direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the supply flow path 1.

Moreover, the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the tubular part 4 is a square shape. As shown in FIG. 1, among the rectangular wall portions constituting the tubular body portion 4, the end portion 4 a 1 (wall) of the wall portion 4 a located on the downstream side in the flow direction of the exhaust gas X in the supply flow path 1. End) is disposed in the supply flow path 1.
That is, as shown in FIG. 2, which is a front view of the wall portion 4 a of the tubular body portion 4, in the burner device S <b> 1 of the present embodiment, the distal end portion of the rectangular wall portion 4 a is in the circular supply channel 1. (End 4a1) is arranged.
The end 4a1 of the wall 4a functions as an oxidant intake unit that takes in a part of the exhaust gas X (oxidant) flowing through the supply flow path 1 and supplies it directly to the flame holding region R3.

The fuel supply unit 5 includes a fuel holding unit 5a installed at the tip of the ignition device 7, and a supply unit 5b for supplying fuel to the fuel holding unit 5a.
In addition, as the fuel holding | maintenance part 5a, it can form with a metal mesh, a sintered metal, a metal fiber, a glass cloth, a ceramic porous body, a ceramic fiber, a pumice stone etc., for example.

  The ignition device 7 is composed of a glow plug that is a heater that is surrounded by a fuel holding portion 5a and is heated to an ignition temperature of an air-fuel mixture of fuel and exhaust gas X or higher.

The partition member 8 includes an exhaust gas passage region R1 through which the exhaust gas X taken in from the supply passage 1 flows, an ignition region R2 in which the ignition device 7 is installed, and an air-fuel mixture Y. It is divided into a flame holding region R3 where combustion is maintained. The partition member 8 extends vertically from the central portion of the tubular body portion 4 and is disposed away from the bottom surface of the tubular body portion 4 and horizontally from the central plate 8a as shown in FIG. And a side plate 8b that is spaced apart from the side surface of the tubular body portion 4. The area of the side plate 8b is set wider than the area seen from above the fuel holding portion 5a.
As shown in FIG. 1, the partition member 8 allows the exhaust gas X to be ventilated from the exhaust gas flow path region R1 to the ignition region R2 through a gap between the center plate 8a and the bottom surface of the tube part 4, and the side plate 8b and the tube The air-fuel mixture Y can be ventilated from the ignition region R2 to the flame holding region R3 by a gap with the side surface of the body part 4.
And the partition member 8 is arrange | positioned by forming a clearance gap between the tubular body parts 4, and the said mixing | mixing is carried out by ventilating the air-fuel mixture Y from the ignition area | region R2 to the flame holding area | region R3 through the said clearance gap. The flow rate of the gas Y is adjusted to a flow rate at which combustion is stabilized in the flame holding region R3.
Moreover, the partition member 8 ventilates the air-fuel mixture Y from the lower side to the upper side through a gap opened near the tube body part 4, thereby allowing the pipe body part 4 to move from above (outside) the flame holding region R 3. It collides with the flow (oxidant flow) of the exhaust gas X supplied to flame holding area | region R3 along a wall surface.
Note that the ventilation area from the exhaust gas flow path region R1 to the ignition region R2 is preferably wider than the ventilation area from the ignition region R2 to the flame holding region R3. As a result, the ignition region R2 is always filled with gas, the flow rate of the fluid in the ignition region R2 is reduced, and the ignitability is improved.

  The auxiliary combustion air supply device 9 supplementarily supplies air to the inside of the tubular body portion 4 (exhaust gas flow path region R1) as necessary. The air supply device for supplying air and the air supply device And piping etc. which connect the inside of the pipe body part 4 are provided.

In the burner device S1 of the present embodiment configured as described above, the exhaust gas X taken into the exhaust gas flow channel region R1 from the supply flow channel 1 enters the ignition region R2 from the exhaust gas flow channel region R1 as an oxidant. Supplied.
On the other hand, the ignition device 7 is heated under a control device (not shown), and the fuel supplied from the supply unit 5b to the fuel holding unit 5a volatilizes in the ignition region R2.
Then, the exhaust gas X supplied to the ignition region R2 and the volatile fuel are mixed to generate an air-fuel mixture Y, and the air-fuel mixture Y is ignited by being heated to an ignition temperature or higher by the ignition device 7.
The ventilation area from the exhaust gas flow path region R1 to the ignition region R2 is set wider than the ventilation area from the ignition region R2 to the flame holding region R3. Thereby, the ignition region R2 is always filled with gas, and the flow velocity of the fluid in the ignition region R2 is reduced. Therefore, the air-fuel mixture Y can be easily ignited in the ignition region R2.

  When the air-fuel mixture Y is thus ignited in the ignition region R2, the flame generated by the ignition is propagated to the flame holding region R3 together with the unburned air-fuel mixture Y. As a result, the flame F is formed in the flame holding region R3, and the flame F is maintained by supplying the unburned mixture Y and the exhaust gas X supplied from above the flame holding region R3 to the flame F. Flame holding. And by maintaining such a flame F, the high temperature gas Z is produced | generated stably.

  After the air-fuel mixture Y is ignited, a flame is formed in the ignition region R2 after the air-fuel mixture Y is ignited. For this reason, the air-fuel mixture Y undergoes primary combustion in the ignition region R2 and then secondary combustion in the flame holding region R3.

Here, in the burner apparatus S1 of the present embodiment, the ignition region R2 and the flame holding region R3 are divided by the partition member 8 so that the air-fuel mixture Y can be ventilated, and further supplied from the ignition region R2 to the flame holding region R3. The flow rate of the air-fuel mixture Y is adjusted to a flow rate at which combustion is stabilized in the flame holding region R3.
Therefore, according to the burner device S1 of the present embodiment, the combustion state of the air-fuel mixture Y can be stabilized, and further, the hot gas Z can be generated stably.

  Further, in the burner apparatus S1 of the present embodiment, the exhaust gas X is directly supplied to the flame holding region R3 by the end 4a1 of the wall 4a of the tubular body 4. For this reason, a sufficient amount of oxygen is supplied to the flame holding region R3, and combustion in the flame holding region R3 can be further stabilized.

  As described above, according to the burner device S1 of the present embodiment, it is possible to stabilize combustion in the flame holding region R3 and stably generate high-temperature gas.

  In addition, the exhaust gas X directly supplied from the supply flow path 1 to the flame holding region R3 is blocked by the side plate 8b of the partition plate 8, so that the intrusion into the ignition region R2 is suppressed. For this reason, even when the exhaust gas X is directly supplied to the flame holding region R3 by the end portion 4a1 of the wall portion 4a of the tube portion 4, the flow velocity of the air-fuel mixture Y in the ignition region R2 increases. This can be suppressed and deterioration of ignitability can be suppressed.

In addition, regardless of the size of the burner device S1, by maintaining the ratio between the area of the end 4a1 and the cross-sectional area of the supply flow path 1, an optimum amount for maintaining the flame F in the flame holding region R3. The exhaust gas X can be taken in.
When the ratio between the area of the end 4a1 and the cross-sectional area of the supply channel 1 is maintained, the flame F is maintained in the flame holding region R3 even when the internal space of the tube body 4 is expanded. can do. For this reason, it is possible to expand the ignition region R2 by expanding the internal space of the tubular body portion 4 than the burner device S1 of the present embodiment. In this case, the flow velocity of the air-fuel mixture Y in the ignition region R2 is reduced, and the ignitability of the air-fuel mixture Y can be improved.

  In addition, in this embodiment, the structure provided with the auxiliary combustion air supply apparatus 9 is employ | adopted. However, when the concentration of oxygen contained in the exhaust gas X is sufficiently high, the auxiliary combustion air supply device 9 can be omitted as shown in FIG.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, the description of the same parts as those in the first embodiment will be omitted or simplified.

FIG. 4A is a cross-sectional view showing a schematic configuration of the burner device S2 of the present embodiment. As shown in this figure, in the burner device S2 of the present embodiment, the tubular body portion 4, its internal structure and connection structure are arranged symmetrically with respect to the burner device S1 of the first embodiment.
That is, in the burner device S2 of the present embodiment, the pipe body portion 4, its internal structure (partition member 8, fuel supply unit 5 and ignition device 7), and connection structure (supporting air supply device 9) are supplied to the supply flow path 1. It is attached to the top.

  Even with the burner device S2 of the present embodiment that employs such a configuration, the combustion state of the mixture Y is stabilized as well as the burner device S1 of the first embodiment. Generation can be performed.

  As shown in FIG. 4B, also in the burner device S2 of the present embodiment, as in the first embodiment, when the oxygen concentration contained in the exhaust gas X is sufficiently high, auxiliary combustion air supply is performed. It is also possible to omit the device 9.

  As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described referring drawings, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment. Various shapes, combinations, and the like of the constituent members shown in the above-described embodiments are examples, and various modifications can be made based on design requirements and the like without departing from the gist of the present invention.

For example, in the said embodiment, the structure which uses the edge part 4a1 of the wall part 4a of the pipe part 4 as an oxidizing agent taking-in means of this invention was demonstrated.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to adopt a configuration in which a bank portion or the like separate from the tube portion 4 is installed as the oxidant taking-in means.

Moreover, in the said embodiment, the structure which uses the exhaust gas X as an oxidizing agent was demonstrated.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and air can be used as the oxidant.
In such a case, for example, as shown in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b), the end of the exhaust gas flow path region R 1 connected to the supply flow path 1 is closed, and the auxiliary combustion air supply device 9 In this case, a configuration in which mainly air is sent as an oxidant, not auxiliary, is adopted.

Moreover, in the said embodiment, the structure using the supply part 5b connected to the fuel holding | maintenance part 5a was demonstrated.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a supply unit that sprays fuel onto the fuel holding unit 5a may be used.

  S1, S2 ... Burner device, 4 ... Tube part, 4a ... Wall part, 4a1 ... End part (wall end part, oxidant intake means), 8 ... Partition member, R1 ... Exhaust gas flow Road region, R2 ... Ignition region, R3 ... Flame holding region, X ... Exhaust gas (oxidant), Y ... Air mixture, Z ... High temperature gas

Claims (1)

A burner device for burning an air-fuel mixture of oxidant and fuel,
The ignition region for igniting the air-fuel mixture and the flame-holding region for maintaining combustion of the air-fuel mixture are divided so that the air-fuel mixture can be vented, and the flow rate of the air-fuel mixture supplied from the ignition region to the flame-holding region is determined. A partition member to be adjusted;
A tubular portion in which an internal space is divided into the ignition region and the flame holding region by the partition member;
An oxidant take-in means for taking the oxidant directly into the flame holding region,
The oxidant take-in means is a wall end portion of the tubular body portion arranged so as to shield only an edge portion of the flow path when viewed from the flow direction of the oxidant in the flow path through which the oxidant flows. burner unit, characterized in that there.

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