EP0543564A1 - Water-cooled cyclone separator - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
- F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
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- This invention relates to a cyclone separator and, more particularly, to a cyclone separator in which the heat exchange portion of the hopper section of such separator is extended.
- Fluidized bed reactors, combusters, or gasifiers are well known.
- air is passed through a bed of particulate materials, including a fossil fuel such as coal and an adsorbent for the sulfur generated as a result of combustion of the coal, to fluidize the bed and to promote the combustion of the fuel at a relatively low temperature.
- a fossil fuel such as coal
- an adsorbent for the sulfur generated as a result of combustion of the coal to fluidize the bed and to promote the combustion of the fuel at a relatively low temperature.
- the heat produced by the fluidized bed is utilized to convert water to steam, such as in a steam generator, the fluidized bed system offers an attractive combination of high heat release, high sulfur adsorption, low nitrogen oxide emissions, and fuel flexibility.
- the most typical fluidized bed combustion system is commonly referred to as a bubbling fluidized bed in which a bed of particulate materials is supported by an air distribution plate, to which combustion-supporting air is introduced through a plurality of perforations in the plate, causing the material to expand and to take on a suspended, or fluidized, state.
- the reactor is in the form of a steam generator, the walls of the reactor are formed by a plurality of water-cooled heat transfer tubes. The heat produced by a combustion within the fluidized bed is transferred to a heat exchange medium, such as water, steam, or a combination thereof, circulating through the tubes.
- the tubes are usually connected to a natural water circulation circuitry, including a steam drum, for separating water from the steam thus formed which is routed to a turbine to generate electricity or to a steam user.
- the tubes eliminate the need for expensive, high temperature refractory-lined duct work and expansion joints.
- Fluidized bed combustion systems of this type include a cyclone separator which is normally situated to receive the gaseous discharge from the bubbling fluidized bed.
- the material introduced into the separator contains gases with solid fuel particles entrained.
- the separator utilizes centrifugal forces to separate the solid particles from the gases.
- Cyclone separators for separating solid fuel particles and gases discharged from a combustion system or the like are normally provided with a hopper section in the lower end to collect the solid fuel particles.
- U.S. Patent No. 4,994,250 discloses an improved cyclone separator having walls constructed of water-cooled heat transfer tubes. The addition of the tubes minimizes the need for expensive, high temperature refractory-lined duct work and expansion joints between the reactor and the cyclone separator, and between the cyclone separator and heat recovery section.
- the walls of the separator are constructed of constant diameter tubes connected together by fins. Each fin extends from one tube and is welded to an adjacent tube, thus creating a gas-tight wall.
- the hopper section of the separator is conically-shaped, with the circumference and diameter of the hopper section decreasing from top to bottom.
- the diameters of the tubes in the walls remain constant.
- the size of the fins connecting the tubes in the walls is gradually decreased from top to bottom. The problem arises when the size of the fins connecting the tubes is no longer able to be reduced because the tubes are touching one another with no room for a fin. As this problem occurs at some area above the bottom of the hopper section, the tubes cannot extend the full length of the hopper section.
- One solution to this problem is to introduce an intermediate ring header, which reduces the number of tubes extending between the intermediate ring header and the lower ring header and thus enables the tubes to extend the full length of the hopper section.
- the addition of the intermediate ring header increases the cost of the system.
- the separator of the present invention includes a cylindrical section, a roof section, and a hopper section, all of which are formed by a plurality of water-cooled heat transfer tubes extending in a parallel relationship.
- Two ring headers are provided, one at the top and one at the bottom of the separator, to pass the cooling water, steam, or a combination thereof, through the tubes.
- An inner barrel is provided to define, in combination with the cylindrical section of the separator, an annular chamber which receives a mixture of gases and solid particles for separating the solid particles from the gases by centrifugal forces.
- the extension of the water-cooled tube walls over the entire length of the hopper section is accomplished either by decreasing the size of the tubes or by decreasing the number of tubes, neither of which gives rise to the need for an intermediate ring header.
- either embodiment can be incorporated into a natural circulation or pump system.
- the reference numeral 2 refers in general to the cyclone separator of the present invention which includes a roof section 4, a cylindrical section 6 with an inlet opening 6a, and a conically-shaped hopper section 8.
- a lower ring header 10 is disposed at the lower end of the hopper section 8 and an upper ring header 12 is disposed at the upper end of the roof section 4.
- the roof section 4 is connected to an inner barrel 13 in a conventional manner such as welding.
- the connection of the inner barrel 13 and the roof section 4 is gas-tight.
- the inner barrel 13 is aligned in a coaxial relationship with the cylindrical section 6.
- the lower portion of the inner barrel 13 extends into the cylindrical section 6.
- the upper portion of inner barrel 13 extends beyond the cyclone separator 2.
- the cylindrical section 6 and the hopper section 8 are formed by a group of continuous, spaced, constant diameter, parallel tubes 14.
- the tubes 14 are connected at their lower ends to the lower ring header 10 and span the entire length of the separator.
- the upper portion of the cylindrical section 6 is not shown in FIG. 2, it is understood that the remainder of cylindrical section 6 and the roof section 4 are also formed by the same group of tubes 14.
- a portion of the tubes 14 are bent away from the plane of cylindrical section 6 to form the inlet opening 6a (FIG. 1), which enables the gases containing the solid particles to be introduced into the annular chamber in a tangential direction.
- the tubes 14 are spaced apart by a plurality of fins 16 extending from diametrically opposed portions of each tube for the entire length of the tubes and connected to the tubes in any conventional manner, such as welding, to render the separator 2 gas-tight.
- the width of each fin 16 is constant in the cylindrical section 6, with the exception of the inlet opening 6a, and varies in the roof section 4 and the hopper section 8 as will be described.
- the tubes 14 extend generally horizontally from the upper ring header 12 in an inwardly direction and are then bent downwardly in a vertical direction.
- the tubes 14 are then bent outwardly in a generally horizontal direction to complete the roof section 4 and are then bent downwardly in a vertical direction to form the cylindrical section 6.
- At the lower portion of the cylindrical section the tubes 14 are bent inwardly at a slight angle to form the conically-shaped hopper section 8.
- the width of fins 16 necessarily decreases from the top to the bottom of conically-shaped hopper section 8, until the tubes 14 are in direct contact with one another, which negates the need for a fin.
- the tubes 14 are divided into two sets 14a and 14b.
- the tubes forming the set 14a extend the entire length of the hopper section 8 and are then bent radially outwardly and then downwardly into the lower ring header 10.
- the tubes forming the set 14b extend some distance down the hopper section 8 before being extracted, or bent radially outwardly, and are then bent downwardly toward the lower ring header 10.
- the lengths of both sets of tubes 14a and 14b are approximately equal from the upper ring header 12 to the lower ring header 10.
- the lower portion of the hopper section 8 is formed exclusively by the tubes of the set 14a, in combination with the fins 16.
- the tubes of the set 14a are bent radially outwardly at the bottom of the hopper section 8 and downwardly into the lower ring header 10.
- the tubes of the set 14b which have been extracted above this view, extend vertically into the lower ring header 10.
- FIG. 1 depicts the circulation system utilized with the separator 2 of the present invention.
- the circulation system is comprised of a natural-circulation steam drum 22, which is connected, via a pipe 24 and branch pipes 26 and 28, to the upper ring header 12.
- a down pipe 30 and branch pipe 32 connect the steam drum 22 to the lower ring header 10.
- the system circulates with water from the steam drum 22 conveyed by the down pipe 30 to the lower ring header 10 using the force of gravity and passes upwardly from the lower ring header 10 through the tubes 14 by natural convection, as will be described.
- separator 2 of the present invention is part of a boiler system including a fluidized bed reactor, or the like (not shown), disposed adjacent to the separator.
- the inlet opening 6a receives a hot gaseous mixture from the reactor which contain gases and entrained fine, solid, fuel particles from the fluidized bed.
- the inlet opening 6a is configured so as to introduce the hot gaseous mixture into the cylindrical section 6 in a tangential direction.
- the entrained solid particles are thus propelled, by centrifugal forces, against the inner wall of cylindrical section 6 where the solid particles collect and fall downwardly, due to the force of gravity, into the hopper section 8.
- the solid particles collected at the bottom of hopper section are directed to external equipment (not shown) for further use by means known in the art.
- the relatively clean gases remaining in the chamber are prevented from flowing upwardly by the roof section 4 and the connected inner barrel 13, and thus the gases are forced to enter the inner barrel 13 through its lower end.
- the gases pass through the length of the inner barrel 13 before exiting from the upper end of the inner barrel 13 and are directed to external equipment (not shown) for further use.
- Water, steam, or a combination thereof is passed from the steam drum 22, via pipes 30 and 32, into the lower ring header 10, and passes by natural convection upwardly through the tubes 14 of the hopper section 8, the cylindrical section 6 and inlet opening 6a, and the roof section 4.
- the heated water, steam, or combination thereof then passes from the roof section 4 into the upper ring header 12 and, via pipes 24, 26, and 28, back into steam drum 22.
- the circulating fluid thus maintains separator 2 at a relatively low temperature.
- the inner barrel 13 can be formed of water-cooled tubes in a manner similar to separator 2 and the inner barrel 13 can be connected to the flow circuit including the steam drum 22.
- a forced circulation system can be used instead of the natural circulation system described above in which case a pump 36 would be provided in the line 30 which receives the fluid from the drum 22 and pumps it to and through the branch conduit 32 and the tubes 14.
- the separator 40 includes a cylindrical section 42 and a conically-shaped lower hopper section 44.
- the entire separator 40, including the hopper section 44 is formed by a group of continuous, spaced, constant diameter, parallel tubes 46.
- the tubes 46 are spaced apart by a plurality of fins 48 extending from diametrically opposed portions of each tube for the entire lengths of the tubes and connected to the tube in any conventional manner, such as welding.
- the width of fins 48 necessarily decreases from top to bottom in the conically-shaped hopper section 44 until adjacent tubes are in direct contact with one another negating the need for a fin.
- each tube 46 is swaged at or above this area, which is referred to by the reference numeral 50.
- the reduced diameter segments of the tubes 46 extend the remaining length of the hopper section 44, are then bent radially outwardly at the bottom of the hopper section and are then bent downwardly into the lower ring header 52.
- FIG. 4 incorporates the same overall system and method of operation as illustrated in FIG. 1. and explained in the first embodiment, including all variations and modifications.
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- This invention relates to a cyclone separator and, more particularly, to a cyclone separator in which the heat exchange portion of the hopper section of such separator is extended.
- Fluidized bed reactors, combusters, or gasifiers are well known. In these arrangements, air is passed through a bed of particulate materials, including a fossil fuel such as coal and an adsorbent for the sulfur generated as a result of combustion of the coal, to fluidize the bed and to promote the combustion of the fuel at a relatively low temperature. When the heat produced by the fluidized bed is utilized to convert water to steam, such as in a steam generator, the fluidized bed system offers an attractive combination of high heat release, high sulfur adsorption, low nitrogen oxide emissions, and fuel flexibility.
- The most typical fluidized bed combustion system is commonly referred to as a bubbling fluidized bed in which a bed of particulate materials is supported by an air distribution plate, to which combustion-supporting air is introduced through a plurality of perforations in the plate, causing the material to expand and to take on a suspended, or fluidized, state. In the event the reactor is in the form of a steam generator, the walls of the reactor are formed by a plurality of water-cooled heat transfer tubes. The heat produced by a combustion within the fluidized bed is transferred to a heat exchange medium, such as water, steam, or a combination thereof, circulating through the tubes. The tubes are usually connected to a natural water circulation circuitry, including a steam drum, for separating water from the steam thus formed which is routed to a turbine to generate electricity or to a steam user. The tubes eliminate the need for expensive, high temperature refractory-lined duct work and expansion joints.
- Fluidized bed combustion systems of this type include a cyclone separator which is normally situated to receive the gaseous discharge from the bubbling fluidized bed. The material introduced into the separator contains gases with solid fuel particles entrained. The separator utilizes centrifugal forces to separate the solid particles from the gases.
- Cyclone separators for separating solid fuel particles and gases discharged from a combustion system or the like are normally provided with a hopper section in the lower end to collect the solid fuel particles. U.S. Patent No. 4,994,250 discloses an improved cyclone separator having walls constructed of water-cooled heat transfer tubes. The addition of the tubes minimizes the need for expensive, high temperature refractory-lined duct work and expansion joints between the reactor and the cyclone separator, and between the cyclone separator and heat recovery section. The walls of the separator are constructed of constant diameter tubes connected together by fins. Each fin extends from one tube and is welded to an adjacent tube, thus creating a gas-tight wall. In this design the hopper section of the separator is conically-shaped, with the circumference and diameter of the hopper section decreasing from top to bottom. Thus, while the circumference of the hopper section decreases, the diameters of the tubes in the walls remain constant. To accommodate the decreasing circumference, the size of the fins connecting the tubes in the walls is gradually decreased from top to bottom. The problem arises when the size of the fins connecting the tubes is no longer able to be reduced because the tubes are touching one another with no room for a fin. As this problem occurs at some area above the bottom of the hopper section, the tubes cannot extend the full length of the hopper section.
- One solution to this problem is to introduce an intermediate ring header, which reduces the number of tubes extending between the intermediate ring header and the lower ring header and thus enables the tubes to extend the full length of the hopper section. However, the addition of the intermediate ring header increases the cost of the system.
- It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a cyclone separator of the above type in which the water-cooled heat transfer tubes extend the full length of the hopper section.
- It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cyclone separator of the above type in which the need for an intermediate ring header is eliminated.
- It is a further object of the present invention to provide a cyclone separator of the above type in which heat recovery is increased.
- Toward the fulfillment of these and other objects, the separator of the present invention includes a cylindrical section, a roof section, and a hopper section, all of which are formed by a plurality of water-cooled heat transfer tubes extending in a parallel relationship. Two ring headers are provided, one at the top and one at the bottom of the separator, to pass the cooling water, steam, or a combination thereof, through the tubes. An inner barrel is provided to define, in combination with the cylindrical section of the separator, an annular chamber which receives a mixture of gases and solid particles for separating the solid particles from the gases by centrifugal forces. As the separation takes place, the solid particles fall into the hopper section of the separator for disposal, or recycle, and the gases pass upwardly through the inner barrel of the separator to external heat recovery equipment. According to a main feature of the present invention, the extension of the water-cooled tube walls over the entire length of the hopper section is accomplished either by decreasing the size of the tubes or by decreasing the number of tubes, neither of which gives rise to the need for an intermediate ring header. Thus, either embodiment can be incorporated into a natural circulation or pump system.
- The above brief description, as well as further objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be more fully appreciated by reference to the following detailed description of the presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative embodiments in accordance with the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
- FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the cyclone separator of the present invention including a water circulation system;
- FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the separator of the present invention;
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 3-3 of FIG. 2; and
- FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 2, but depicting an alternative embodiment of the separator of the present invention.
- Referring to FIG. 1 of the drawings, the reference numeral 2 refers in general to the cyclone separator of the present invention which includes a roof section 4, a cylindrical section 6 with an inlet opening 6a, and a conically-shaped hopper section 8. A
lower ring header 10 is disposed at the lower end of the hopper section 8 and anupper ring header 12 is disposed at the upper end of the roof section 4. The roof section 4 is connected to aninner barrel 13 in a conventional manner such as welding. The connection of theinner barrel 13 and the roof section 4 is gas-tight. Theinner barrel 13 is aligned in a coaxial relationship with the cylindrical section 6. The lower portion of theinner barrel 13 extends into the cylindrical section 6. The upper portion ofinner barrel 13 extends beyond the cyclone separator 2. - As better shown in FIG. 2, the cylindrical section 6 and the hopper section 8 are formed by a group of continuous, spaced, constant diameter, parallel tubes 14. The tubes 14 are connected at their lower ends to the
lower ring header 10 and span the entire length of the separator. Although the upper portion of the cylindrical section 6 is not shown in FIG. 2, it is understood that the remainder of cylindrical section 6 and the roof section 4 are also formed by the same group of tubes 14. A portion of the tubes 14 are bent away from the plane of cylindrical section 6 to form the inlet opening 6a (FIG. 1), which enables the gases containing the solid particles to be introduced into the annular chamber in a tangential direction. - The tubes 14 are spaced apart by a plurality of
fins 16 extending from diametrically opposed portions of each tube for the entire length of the tubes and connected to the tubes in any conventional manner, such as welding, to render the separator 2 gas-tight. The width of eachfin 16 is constant in the cylindrical section 6, with the exception of the inlet opening 6a, and varies in the roof section 4 and the hopper section 8 as will be described. - As shown in FIG. 1, the tubes 14 extend generally horizontally from the
upper ring header 12 in an inwardly direction and are then bent downwardly in a vertical direction. The tubes 14 are then bent outwardly in a generally horizontal direction to complete the roof section 4 and are then bent downwardly in a vertical direction to form the cylindrical section 6. At the lower portion of the cylindrical section the tubes 14 are bent inwardly at a slight angle to form the conically-shaped hopper section 8. - The inlet opening 6a, roof section 4, and cylindrical section 6 are all described in detail in U.S. Patent 4,746,337, which is assigned to the assignee of the present invention, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference for all purposes.
- As shown in FIG. 2, the width of
fins 16 necessarily decreases from the top to the bottom of conically-shaped hopper section 8, until the tubes 14 are in direct contact with one another, which negates the need for a fin. To accommodate the decreasing circumference and diameter of the hopper section 8, the tubes 14 are divided into twosets set 14a extend the entire length of the hopper section 8 and are then bent radially outwardly and then downwardly into thelower ring header 10. The tubes forming theset 14b extend some distance down the hopper section 8 before being extracted, or bent radially outwardly, and are then bent downwardly toward thelower ring header 10. The lengths of both sets oftubes upper ring header 12 to thelower ring header 10. - As shown in FIG. 3, the lower portion of the hopper section 8 is formed exclusively by the tubes of the
set 14a, in combination with thefins 16. The tubes of theset 14a are bent radially outwardly at the bottom of the hopper section 8 and downwardly into thelower ring header 10. The tubes of theset 14b, which have been extracted above this view, extend vertically into thelower ring header 10. - FIG. 1 depicts the circulation system utilized with the separator 2 of the present invention. The circulation system is comprised of a natural-circulation steam drum 22, which is connected, via a
pipe 24 andbranch pipes upper ring header 12. A downpipe 30 andbranch pipe 32 connect the steam drum 22 to thelower ring header 10. The system circulates with water from the steam drum 22 conveyed by thedown pipe 30 to thelower ring header 10 using the force of gravity and passes upwardly from thelower ring header 10 through the tubes 14 by natural convection, as will be described. - It is understood that the separator 2 of the present invention is part of a boiler system including a fluidized bed reactor, or the like (not shown), disposed adjacent to the separator.
- In operation, the inlet opening 6a receives a hot gaseous mixture from the reactor which contain gases and entrained fine, solid, fuel particles from the fluidized bed. The inlet opening 6a is configured so as to introduce the hot gaseous mixture into the cylindrical section 6 in a tangential direction. The entrained solid particles are thus propelled, by centrifugal forces, against the inner wall of cylindrical section 6 where the solid particles collect and fall downwardly, due to the force of gravity, into the hopper section 8. The solid particles collected at the bottom of hopper section are directed to external equipment (not shown) for further use by means known in the art. The relatively clean gases remaining in the chamber are prevented from flowing upwardly by the roof section 4 and the connected
inner barrel 13, and thus the gases are forced to enter theinner barrel 13 through its lower end. The gases pass through the length of theinner barrel 13 before exiting from the upper end of theinner barrel 13 and are directed to external equipment (not shown) for further use. Water, steam, or a combination thereof, is passed from the steam drum 22, viapipes lower ring header 10, and passes by natural convection upwardly through the tubes 14 of the hopper section 8, the cylindrical section 6 and inlet opening 6a, and the roof section 4. The heated water, steam, or combination thereof, then passes from the roof section 4 into theupper ring header 12 and, viapipes - Several advantages result from the arrangement of the present invention. For example, the heat losses are reduced, the heat recovery area in the hopper section is increased, and the requirement for internal refractory insulation is minimized.
- It is understood that variations in the foregoing can be made within the scope of this invention. For example, the
inner barrel 13 can be formed of water-cooled tubes in a manner similar to separator 2 and theinner barrel 13 can be connected to the flow circuit including the steam drum 22. Also, a forced circulation system can be used instead of the natural circulation system described above in which case apump 36 would be provided in theline 30 which receives the fluid from the drum 22 and pumps it to and through thebranch conduit 32 and the tubes 14. - An alternate embodiment of the separator of the present invention is referred to in general by the
reference numeral 40 in FIG. 4. Theseparator 40 includes a cylindrical section 42 and a conically-shapedlower hopper section 44. Theentire separator 40, including thehopper section 44 is formed by a group of continuous, spaced, constant diameter,parallel tubes 46. Thetubes 46 are spaced apart by a plurality offins 48 extending from diametrically opposed portions of each tube for the entire lengths of the tubes and connected to the tube in any conventional manner, such as welding. The width offins 48 necessarily decreases from top to bottom in the conically-shapedhopper section 44 until adjacent tubes are in direct contact with one another negating the need for a fin. To accommodate the decreasing circumference and diameter of thehopper section 44 and extend thehopper section 44 below the area where the adjacent tubes initially contact, eachtube 46 is swaged at or above this area, which is referred to by thereference numeral 50. The reduced diameter segments of thetubes 46 extend the remaining length of thehopper section 44, are then bent radially outwardly at the bottom of the hopper section and are then bent downwardly into thelower ring header 52. - It is understood that the alternate embodiment depicted in FIG. 4 incorporates the same overall system and method of operation as illustrated in FIG. 1. and explained in the first embodiment, including all variations and modifications.
- Several advantages result from the swagging arrangement of the present invention. For example, the heat losses are reduced, the heat recovery area in the hopper section is increased, and the requirement for internal refractory insulation is minimized. These advantages are accomplished without the need to incur the additional cost of an intermediate ring header.
- It is understood that variations of the above explained embodiments are contemplated including, but not limited to, multiple extractions or swagings of the tubes to allow greater flexibility in the design parameters.
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- A cyclone separator comprising an inner cylinder; a plurality of tubes having segments extending vertically in a parallel relationship to form an outer cylinder extending coaxially around said inner cylinder to define an annular chamber between said cylinders, other segments of said tubes being bent inwardly to form a conically-shaped hopper section extending below said outer cylinder, at least a portion of said tubes being configured to permit the diameter of said hopper section at the lower end of said tubes to be reduced when compared to said diameter if the tubes were not so configured; means for circulating fluid through said tubes; and means for directing gases containing solid particles through said annular chamber for separating the solid particles from said gases by centrifugal forces, the separated gases exiting from said inner cylinder and the separated solids falling into the bottom of said hopper section for disposal or recycle.
- A cyclone separator comprising an inner cylinder; a plurality of tubes having segments extending vertically in a parallel relationship to form an outer cylinder extending coaxially around said inner cylinder to define an annular chamber between said cylinders, other segments of said tubes being bent inwardly to form a conically-shaped hopper section extending below said outer cylinder, a portion of said tubes being extracted from the wall of the hopper section in at least one location to allow the remaining tubes to extend said hopper section beyond the location where each of said tubes would have contacted the adjacent tube if none were extracted; means for circulating fluid through said tubes; and means for directing gases containing solid particles through said annular chamber for separating the solid particles from said gases by centrifugal forces, the separated gases exiting from said inner cylinder and the separated solids falling into the bottom of said hopper section for disposal or recycle.
- A cyclone separator comprising an inner cylinder; a plurality of tubes having segments extending vertically in a parallel relationship to form an outer cylinder extending coaxially around said inner cylinder to define an annular chamber between said cylinders, other segments of said tubes being bent inwardly to form a conically-shaped hopper section extending below said outer cylinder, at least a portion of said tubes forming said hopper section being swaged in at least one location to decrease the diameter of said tubes, and to extend the length of said hopper section beyond the location where each of said tubes would have contacted the adjacent tube if none were swaged; means for circulating fluid through said tubes; and means for directing gases containing solid particles through said annular chamber for separating the solid particles from said gases by centrifugal forces, the separated gases exiting from said inner cylinder and the separated solids falling into the bottom of said hopper section for disposal or recycle.
- A separator as claimed in any preceding claim in which the means for circulating fluid through the tubes comprises a first ring header connected to the upper ends of the tubes, a second ring header connected to the lower ends of the tubes, and means for passing water, steam, or a water and steam mixture through the ring headers to circulate the water, steam, or water and steam mixture through the tubes to cool the separator.
- A separator as claimed in any preceding claim in which the upper segments of the tubes are bent inwardly to form a roof section.
- A separator as claimed in any preceding claim in which adjacent tubes are connected together by a plurality of fins to render the outer cylinder gas-tight.
- A separator as claimed in Claim 6 in which the width of each fin is reduced in a downward direction in the hopper section until the adjacent tubes contact.
- A separator as claimed in Claim 1 in which adjacent tubes are connected together by a plurality of fins to render the outer cylinder gas-tight, each fin being reduced in a downward direction in the hopper section until adjacent tubes contact, the said configuration of the tubes occurring at the location where each tube contacts its adjacent tube.
- A separator as claimed in Claim 2 in which adjacent tubes are connected together by a plurality of fins to render the outer cylinder gas-tight, each fin being reduced in a downward direction in the hopper section Until adjacent tubes contact, the extraction of the portion of the tubes from the wall of the hopper section being effected where each tube of the entire set of tubes contacts its adjacent tube.
- A separator as claimed in Claim 3 in which adjacent tubes are connected together by a plurality of fins to render the outer cylinder gas-tight, each fin being reduced in a downward direction in the hopper section until adjacent tubes contact, the said tubes being swaged where each tube of the entire set of tubes contacts its adjacent tube.
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