Effect of the Specific Features of the Torch Aerodynamics on the Integrated Efficiency of the Multifuel Boiler

This scientific paper gives the literature review emphasizing that the overwhelming majority of the operated boilers are equipped with vortex burners. These burners are characterized by an increased NOx formation, low operation reliability of screen tubes and convective heating surfaces, small maneuverability range and insufficient economical indicators. The defining role of the aerodynamic organization of the furnace processes affecting the operation efficiency of the boilers was shown for the case of the combustion of the energy fuels of a different type. Hence, the problems of an increased reliability, maneuverability, environmental safety and economical operation of the boilers are rather topical. The above problems faced by Ukraine today have been essentially exacerbated due to the fact that most boilers of the thermal power plants have a depleted resource and the production of new boilers (especially high power boilers) was actually stopped. The use of vortex burners with the traditional counter layout on the two opposite furnace walls is peculiar for the overwhelming majority of modern high power boilers in Ukraine and abroad. In this case, the central zone of the furnace is designed to provide the collision of the burner torches of opposite walls and a high-temperature burning core is created. In the case of gas –oil boilers, the availability of the high-temperature core results in an intensified formation of the thermal nitrogen oxides and a decreased operation reliability of the metal of furnace screens. The torch throw onto the side furnace walls during the combustion of fuel oil results in an essential decrease of the operation reliability of the screen tubes due to a high-temperature hydrogen sulfide corrosion. This paper highlights the issues of the effect of the specific features of the torch aerodynamics on the integrated efficiency of the boiler operation and the optimization of the layouts for the combustion of energy fuels in the multifurnace boilers for further reconstruction of the boilers to reduce the emission of harmful substances, increase reliability and economicity of their operation and enlarge the steam load carrying range.