Process for the combustion of a liquid

US8668488B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Outotec Oyj · FI
• Saacke GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Daum · Mainz, DE
• Wolfram Schalk · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Jean Claude Hein · Florstadt, DE
• Thomas Schueller · Koblenz, DE
• Ludwig Emich · Frankfurt, DE
• Bernhard Rieger · Langenau, DE
• Dieter Sterner · Ritterhude, DE
• Johann-Peter Arning · Bremen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2014
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23D11/06
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the combustion of a liquid in a combustion chamber includes atomizing liquid sulfur using a rotary atomizer and introducing the liquid sulfur into the combustion chamber. The liquid sulfur is charged onto an inside of a cup. The cup is rotated so as to form a liquid film on the inside of the cup and so that parts of the liquid film are radially flung off from an edge of the cup edge into the combustion chamber. The rotational speed of the cup is varied so as to control a thickness of the liquid film in the cup to between 200 and 1000 μm. The liquid sulfur is evaporated and subsequently burnt in the combustion chamber.