4th Generation Coromax
4th Generation Coromax
4th Generation Coromax
ESPs
Victor Reyes
FLSmidth Airtech
Denmark
[email protected]
Peter Elholm
FLSmidth Airtech
Denmark
[email protected]
Abstract:
The first plants using the latest generation of Coromax pulse generators for ESPs have been
commissioned. The present paper will present the new features developed as well a comparison with
competing types of power supplies for ESPs. Among the new features, the use of single IGBTs as
main semiconductor switch and extremely narrow pulses can be mentioned. Furthermore the results
obtained after the commissioning of a sinter plant producing 15.000 t/d will be given.
2 Introduction
The tendency in air pollution regulations is a
decrease of the accepted levels for fine
particles. E.g. the EU has imposed lower limit
on ambient concentration of fine particulate
matter (PM2.5). It is well known that pulse
energization is the most effective means in
charging and filtering fine particulate when
using ESPs.
In order to improve the state-of-the-art in pulse
energization, Airtech- Air Pollution Control FLSmidth has developed the 4th generation of its
line of pulse generators. The main goal for the
new system was to increase the rate of rise of
the ESP voltage by a factor of 2 and in this
way to be able to apply higher voltage levels to
the ESP. This was obtained in practice by
decreasing the pulse width correspondingly.
Furthermore, the system is able to apply a
higher pulse voltage compared with previous
generations. Other improvements have been
introduced regarding the manner the high
voltage semiconductor switch handles the
sparks occurring inside the ESP.
Physically the system comprises one control
cabinet and a HV oil tank, like a traditional TR
set, where the oil tank is placed on the ESP
roof, as shown in Fig. 1.
(a)
(b)
Fig. 7 Waveforms in case of pulse spark.
These waveforms are obtained with the
simulation
program
POWERSIM
and
correspond to rated values. Fig. 7.a shows a
pulse spark occurring on top of the pulse just
after the zero-crossing of the IGBT current
(Iigbt). As seen the ESP voltage (Uesp) drops
very fast from 140 kV to 0. The IGBT current
6 Practical experiences
After a long test of the prototype in a Danish
power plant a number of units have been sold.
At the moment more than 20 units are in
operation, mainly in sinter strand plants and
also in a power plant.
6.1
Electrical operation
The new Coromax energizes the 2nd bussection of the West chamber. A switch box was
mounted allowing and easy change-over with
the existing pulse system. The electrical
operation is best illustrated by the CVC shown
in Fig. 13.
During normal (repetitive) operation the waveform of the ESP voltage is shown in Fig. 12.
6.2
Site experiences
7 Conclusions
It has been possible to include improvements
with respect to previous Coromax generations.
Among them, the following can be mentioned:
8 Litterature
[1] K. Parker. Electrical operation of electrostatic precipitators. IEE Power and Energy
Series. 2003.
[2] V. Reyes Semiconductor switch for HV
pulse generation. 20th Conference on Power
Conversion, Munich, 1990. Germany.