| 摘要 |
Employed are three or more units of regenerative heaters 1A - 1C including first regenerative chambers 3A - 3C provided in lines for exhausting combustion exhaust gases, and second regenerative chambers 4A - 4C provided in lines for sucking and recovering N2 as an atmosphere gas. Of those regenerative heaters, one unit (1C) passes the sucked atmosphere gas N2 through the second regenerative chamber 4C to accumulate the developed heat of the sucked atmosphere gas N2 therein. The remaining one unit (1A) passes combustion air through the second regenerative chamber 4A, in which the heat has been accumulated, for heating it, performs combustion by using the combustion air, and passes only the combustion exhaust gas produced with the combustion through the first regenerative chamber 3A to accumulate heat therein. The remaining one unit (1B) passes the atmosphere gas N2 through the first regenerative chambers 3A - 3C, in which heat has been accumulated, for conversion into developed heat from accumulated heat, thereby heating and supplying the heated atmosphere gas N2 to an atmosphere of an object to be heated. Such a combustion state, an atmosphere gas heating state and an atmosphere gas sucking state are switched over successively in this order for each of the regenerative heaters. As a result, the atmosphere gas can be recovered for reuse and the developed heat of the recovered atmosphere gas can be converted into developed heat of the combustion air for an improvement of thermal efficiency. |
