A rotating shaft furnace with chilled burner pipe

摘要

Overheating of rotary kiln shell burner pipes has resulted in serious deterioration and severely limited service life in a number of operating furnace installations. Various measures have been applied in attempts to solve this problem, but with only limited success. This invention provides a positive solution by use of forced cooling employing an array of high-velocity air jets directed to impinge directly on the inner burner pipe walls. The apparatus includes an assembly of internal cooling header ducting within the burner pipe in an annular configuration, supplied with air under pressure, and equipped with an array of spaced jet nozzle openings through which cooling air jets are directed to impinge on the inner pipe surface, thereby effecting accelerated and continuous cooling of the burner pipe as it operates in the hot furnace atmosphere.