COMBUSTOR FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF SOLID FUELS

Abstract

A solid fuel combustion device includes: a fuel supply device including a firewood feed pipe or another fuel supplier; a primary combustion chamber coupled to the fuel supply device; a secondary combustion chamber including a wall formed of a fireproof material and having a structure in which a space is formed at a side of the combustion gas outlet of the primary combustion chamber to induce primary combustion gas to be secondarily expanded and combusted; and an air supply system including at least one air supply device in an entire combustion path formed in the primary combustion chamber and the secondary combustion chamber.

Claims

1. A solid fuel combustion device comprising: a fuel supply device including a firewood feed pipe or another fuel supplier; a primary combustion chamber coupled to the fuel supply device, wherein a combustion gas outlet formed in one side surface or at a lower side of the primary combustion chamber and the remaining surfaces thereof are blocked by a wall formed of a fireproof material so that primary combustion is performed; a secondary combustion chamber including a wall formed of a fireproof material and having a structure in which a space is formed at a side of the combustion gas outlet of the primary combustion chamber to induce primary combustion gas to be secondarily expanded and combusted, a flow direction of secondary combustion gas is switched after the expansion and combustion to form a path such that the secondary combustion gas comes into contact with and flows along at least one of a lower external wall and a side surface wall of the primary combustion chamber and intensively transfers secondary combustion heat to a fuel in a combustion region of the primary combustion chamber by conduction and radiation; and an air supply system including at least one air supply device in an entire combustion path formed in the primary combustion chamber and the secondary combustion chamber.

2. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 1, wherein: the firewood feed pipe is disposed at an upper portion of the primary combustion chamber and formed in a column shape of which a cross section is a circle, oval, or polygon shape; and a preheating air supply device configured to cool the firewood feed pipe is added above the primary combustion chamber to increase an efficiency thereof.

3. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 1, wherein the primary combustion chamber wall is basically formed of a thermally conductive fireproof material, and when a material having a low thermal conductivity is applied to a large combustor having high heat output, an efficiency thereof increases.

4. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 1, wherein the secondary combustion chamber wall is basically formed of a fireproof insulating material, but a large combustor having high heat output is formed of a thermally conductive material to improve an efficiency and stability thereof.

5. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 1, wherein the air supply system distributes supply air to several positions including an inside of the primary combustion chamber, a start position of the secondary expansion and combustion chamber, and an end position of the secondary combustion chamber so that an output of the combustion device is adjusted by primary and secondary supply air to reduce NO.sub.x generation and perform complete combustion.

6. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 5, wherein temperatures in the primary and secondary combustion chambers and exhausted gas detected by an oxygen sensor are analyzed to electronically control an amount of supply air in order to improve preciseness of air adjustment.

7. The solid fuel combustion device of claim 1, wherein a combustion grid is disposed in the primary combustion chamber so that the combustion grid is replaceable by a combustion grid corresponding to a fuel characteristic such that various kinds of fuels are allowed to be combusted.

Description

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0018] FIG. 1 is a view illustrating combustion regions of a firewood bonfire.

[0019] FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating a high efficiency firewood stove.

[0020] FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating a pocket stove.

[0021] FIG. 4 is a schematic view illustrating a combustion device including a firewood feed pipe and configured to directly return combustion heat.

[0022] FIG. 5 is a view illustrating another kind of combustion chamber wall of a primary combustion chamber.

[0023] FIG. 6 is a schematic view illustrating a combustion device configured to directly return combustion heat.

[0024] FIG. 7 is a schematic view illustrating a combustion device in which a heat outlet of a primary combustion chamber is formed in a downward direction.

[0025] FIG. 8 is a schematic view illustrating a primary combustion chamber to which a reprocessing grid is added.

[0026] FIG. 9 is a schematic view illustrating a combustion device to which a pellet and woodchip combustion grid is added.

[0027] FIG. 10 is a schematic view illustrating a combustion device to which an automatic pellet and woodchip supply device is added.

REFERENCE NUMERALS

[0028] A: PRIMARY COMBUSTION REGION [0029] B: SECONDARY EXPANSION AND COMBUSTION REGION [0030] C: UPPERMOST COMBUSTION FLAME [0031] D: PRIMARY COMBUSTION REGION [0032] E: SECONDARY EXPANSION AND COMBUSTION REGION [0033] 10: SECONDARY EXPANSION AND COMBUSTION [0034] 11: PRIMARY SUPPLY AIR [0035] 12: SECONDARY SUPPLY AIR [0036] 13: FIREPROOF HEAT ACCUMULATING MATERIAL [0037] 14: FIREWOOD [0038] 15: HEAT DELAY AIR SUPPLY PLATE [0039] 20: EXTERNAL HOUSING [0040] 21: PREHEATING AIR SUPPLY DEVICE [0041] 22: THIRD AIR SUPPLY DEVICE [0042] 23: SECONDARY AIR SUPPLY DEVICE [0043] 24: SECONDARY COMBUSTION CHAMBER WALL [0044] 25: REPROCESSING PORT [0045] 26: PRIMARY COMBUSTION CHAMBER WALL [0046] 27: PRIMARY COMBUSTION CHAMBER INTERIOR [0047] 28: SECONDARY EXPANSION AND COMBUSTION SPACE [0048] 29: FIREWOOD SUPPLY PIPE [0049] 31: PREHEATING AIR SUPPLY DEVICE [0050] 33: SECONDARY AIR SUPPLY DEVICE [0051] 34: SECONDARY EXPANSION AND COMBUSTION CHAMBER WALL

MODES OF THE INVENTION

[0052] Hereinafter, the technical spirit of the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings are only examples for more specifically describing the technical sprit of the present invention, and the present invention may be variously applied and used by those skilled in the art.

[0053] Expressions of directions in the present invention are defined as that an upper side is referred to as an upper side of each drawing and a lower side is referred to as a lower side of each drawing.

[0054] Although a stove which is a simplest type of combustor is mainly illustrated in the drawings, the present invention may be naturally applied to a boiler by additionally installing a water container therewith, a hot blast heater by attaching a heat exchanger thereto, and the like.

[0055] Referring to components of a combustor in FIG. 4, a firewood feed pipe 29 for supplying a fuel has a column shape of which a cross section is a circle, oval, or polygon shape, various fuels such as firewood, woodchips, and pellets are fundamentally stacked in the firewood feed pipe 29, and the firewood feed pipe 29 serves to continuously supply the fuel to a primary combustion region 27. When an external preheating air supply device 21 is provided around the firewood feed pipe above a combustion chamber, there are effects in that a combustion duration time and combustion stability are improved by preheating air supplied to the combustion chamber to improve a combustion efficiency thereof and simultaneously absorbing and cooling heat coming from the combustion chamber to prevent thermal decomposition of a fuel in a non-combustion region. In addition, a secondary air supply device 23 configured to supply air to a secondary expansion and combustion chamber and a third air supply device 22 configured to supply air after secondary expansion and combustion are included in the combustor.

[0056] A heat outlet is formed in one side surface of the primary combustion region 27 formed at a lower end of the fuel supply pipe and another surface 26 in which the heat outlet is not formed is formed of a thermally conductive fireproof material, and when a primary combustion gas is secondarily expanded and combusted, the primary combustion gas comes into direct contact with an outer surface of a primary combustion chamber wall and is turned and flows. Secondary combustion heat is transferred by conduction and radiation through the primary combustion chamber wall 26 and used to thermally decompose a fuel in the primary combustion chamber to maintain continuous gasification combustion. Here, combustion supply air is classified into primary air directly supplied to the primary combustion chamber, secondary air supplied to the secondary expansion and combustion chamber 28, and third air sprayed after the secondary combustion is performed and the secondary air is turned and flows along the primary combustion chamber. In this case, the following effects may occur.

[0057] First, in a case in which the combustion chamber is in a cooled state initially, the primary air is directly supplied to a fuel to generate heat so as to increase a temperature in the combustion chamber. Here, an amount of the secondary and third air is minimized to increase the temperature in the combustion chamber. While the temperature in the combustion chamber increases, when an amount of primary air is decreased and an amount of the secondary air is increased, combustion stability is improved, and when a fuel is fully thermally decomposed by secondary combustion heat, the amount of primary air is reduced to a suitable level, the amount of secondary air is increased to decrease an absolute amount of supply air necessary for combustion, and a size of a combustion flame region is increased to adjust an amount of NO.sub.x generation. Here, a minimum amount of the primary air has to be maintained, because a compound containing only carbon is separated and comes out in the form of CO when heat and oxygen are supplied. The third air additionally supplies oxygen to a portion incompletely combusted by only the primary and secondary air to completely combust the portion.

[0058] Referring to a mechanism of the combustion, an output of combustion is adjusted by an amount of the primary air and the secondary air, and the third air serves as auxiliary supply air for complete combustion. Here, the primary air is directly sprayed on a fuel to directly adjust the output, and since the secondary air combusts incompletely combusted gas after the primary combustion to generate secondary combustion heat and promote thermal decomposition of the fuel (generating gas) through the primary combustion chamber wall 26, the secondary air directly participates to adjust the heat output. Since the third air combusts incompletely combusted gas after the primary and secondary combustion and discharges generated heat to a rear heat radiation portion, the third air is not related to the adjustment of the output of the combustion. The classification of the supply air into the primary, the secondary, and the third air provides a method in which an amount of NO.sub.x generation due to a high temperature in a small region and supply of excessive amount of air (oxygen) is dramatically reduced because an absolute amount of supply air decreases, and combustion heat disperses over a wide region. Here, a device configured to adjust an amount of supply air is not illustrated in the drawings because of being a known technology, and the secondary and third air may be supplied through the preheating air supply device 21 and may also be supplied through a separated line. Even when the secondary and third air are supplied through the separated line, since the secondary and third air is supplied through a preheated section inside the combustor, combustion stability is maintained.

[0059] Here, since a temperature in the secondary expansion and combustion chamber becomes highest and the secondary expansion and combustion chamber serves to switch a heat path in an opposite direction, the secondary expansion and combustion chamber has to be formed of a fireproof material which may withstand high temperatures well, and a material of the secondary combustion chamber wall 24 has to be different from materials of the other components which have different thermal conductivities from that of the material of the secondary combustion chamber wall 24 according to a total size of the combustor. For example, since the combustor for camping installed in a small tent has a small output and a high temperature is difficult to maintain in the combustion chamber, a material of a partition wall has to be a material capable of maximizing a thermal insulation effect to maintain combustion quality. The combustor for a large workplace is formed such that the secondary combustion chamber wall 24 is formed of a thermally conductive material to prevent a temperature in the primary combustion chamber from becoming ultra-high such that secondary combustion gas in which a temperature is lowered through some degree of radiation turns and flows along the primary combustion chamber wall to reduce NO.sub.x generated due to the ultra-high temperature and also protect the primary combustion wall.

[0060] A reprocessing device 25 for reprocessing may be formed at a lower portion of the secondary expansion and combustion chamber, and one housing 20 may externally surround an entirety of both the primary and secondary combustion chambers to develop a stove structure configured to directly radiate heat, a boiler structure in which a water container is disposed, a hot blast heater in which an air and heat exchanger is disposed, or the like.

[0061] FIG. 5 is a view illustrating the primary combustion chamber wall having a structure of a middle air layer. Although the primary combustion chamber wall is basically formed of a thermally conductive material, since excessive secondary combustion heat transferred to the primary combustion chamber causes excessive thermal decomposition in the large combustor of which a thermal output is high, the primary combustion wall having a structure of a middle air layer in which a thermal conductivity is reduced may be suitable for combustion stability. Furthermore, the large combustor may include the primary combustion wall formed of one of various materials including a fireproof brick and the like.

[0062] FIG. 6 is a schematic view illustrating the above-described combustor when the firewood feed pipe has a circular structure. According to this structure, secondary combustion gas turns and flows along bottom and both side surfaces of the primary combustion chamber toward a rear heat outlet, the path is formed along a lower side of the primary combustion chamber when the both side surfaces of the heat path are formed to be extremely narrow, and the path is formed along the both side surfaces when the path along the bottom surface is highly reduced. Furthermore, the primary combustion chamber may also be variously formed such that one side surface of the both side surfaces is formed to be wide and the other side surface thereof is formed to be narrow.

[0063] Although an example of the firewood feed pipe is illustrated as a circular shape in the schematic view, the firewood feed pipe may be similarly applied as a polygonal structure including a tetragonal firewood feed pipe, and a separate drawing thereof is omitted because of being cleared to those skilled in the art.

[0064] FIG. 7 is a view illustrating a combustor in which an outlet of primary combustion gas is positioned at a lower side of the combustor, and combustion gas is transferred to a primary combustion chamber mainly along both side surfaces of the primary combustion chamber after secondary expansion and combustion.

[0065] FIG. 8 is a schematic view illustrating a combustor in which a reprocessing grid is additionally disposed under a primary combustion chamber to increase combustion stability by rapidly reprocessing a fuel from which a large amount of reprocessing fuel is generated during combustion.

[0066] FIG. 9 is a view illustrating a combustor in which a combustion grid disposed in a primary combustion chamber and configured to effectively combust a fuel such as pellets or woodchips is disposed to be replaceable by a kind of combustion grid corresponding to a fuel characteristic.

[0067] FIG. 10 is a view illustrating a combustor in which an automated fuel supply system including a transferring screw and a fuel storage hopper is installed instead of a firewood feed pipe. The combustor can operate for a long time period without an additional operation using the automated fuel supply system.

[0068] Although not illustrated in the drawing, an oxygen sensor may be added to a side of an outlet of a secondary combustion chamber to more precisely adjust an amount of supply air.

[0069] Although not illustrated in the drawings, an amount of air may be adjusted by installing one or more temperature sensors in a primary combustion chamber, a secondary combustion chamber, and a radiation portion and providing an electronic control circuit such that a combustor is operated under conditions of a highly suitable temperature and a most suitable amount of oxygen with information from the oxygen sensor.

[0070] The technological scope of the present invention is not limited by the embodiments. The scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the appended claims and encompass all equivalents falling within the scope of the appended claims.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

[0071] The above-described solid fuel combustor can be variously technically applied to devices from an air heating device such as a firewood stove and a pellet stove, to a water heating device such as a firewood boiler and a pellet boiler, a stove and a boiler configured to combust agricultural by-products, and a burner for a small pollution-free home electricity generator.