| 摘要 |
The present invention proposes a method for operating a regenerative heater (10), in particular a hot blast stove of a blast furnace, the regenerative heater (10) comprising a first chamber (12) and a second chamber (22), the first chamber (12) having a burner (14) arranged therein, the second chamber (22) comprising heat storage means. Such a method comprises a heating cycle wherein fuel and oxidizing gas are fed to the burner (14) of the first chamber (12) and allowed to burn and wherein hot flue gasses are led through the second chamber (22) to heat the heat storage means; and a blowing cycle wherein a process gas is fed through the second chamber (22) to pick up heat from the heat storage means. According to an important aspect of the present invention, the heating cycle comprises the steps of feeding a first stream (38) of fuel to the burner (14) of the regenerative heater (10); feeding a second stream (42) of fuel to a pre-combustion chamber (44); feeding oxygen (46) to the pre-combustion chamber (44); allowing the second stream (42) of fuel and the oxygen (46) to interact so as to form oxidizing gas (48); and feeding the oxidizing gas (48) to the burner (14) of the regenerative heater (10). At the end of the heating cycle, the supply of oxygen (46) to the pre-combustion chamber (44) is discontinued, while further feeding the second stream (42) of fuel to the pre-combustion chamber (44) and further feeding the first stream (38) of fuel to the burner (14). |
