PROCESS FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF A DEVICE FOR FEEDING AN ABRASIVE MEDIUM BY MEANS OF A FLUID

摘要

The invention concerns a method of monitoring the operation of a system for feeding an abrasive medium using fluid as conveying medium for at least one burner in a fusion vaporizer plant. The dust extracted from a fusion vaporizer plant or reduction shaft furnace is to be introduced by means of a fluid and via a dust-conveyer tube through at least one dust burner into the fusion vaporizer plant as an additional carbon-carrier. However, the method can also be applied in other melting or incineration plants, such as for example fluid bed reactors. The object to be achieved by this method is to determine as rapidly as possible whether hot gases or unburned oxygen have/has flowed back into the dust-recycling system. To that end, the flow direction in the feed system conveying pipe is measured downstream of the burner or burners. When backflow of the fluid flow is determined or when the presence of oxygen which has penetrated the feed system is determined, the feed system is stopped.