Patent ID: 8550016

Claim:
An apparatus of controlling a flow rate of a primary recirculating exhaust gas in an oxyfuel combustion boiler wherein while oxygen fed from an oxygen producer is being introduced into a coal burning boiler, a part of an exhaust gas in recirculation is introduced as the primary recirculating exhaust gas into a mill, with the primary recirculating exhaust gas carrying pulverized coal pulverized by the mill to a burner for oxyfuel combustion, the apparatus comprising: a CO 2 density monitor for sensing CO 2 density of the primary recirculating exhaust gas to be led to the mill; an O 2 density monitor for sensing O 2 density of the primary recirculating exhaust gas to be led to the mill; a flowmeter for sensing the flow rate of the primary recirculating exhaust gas to be led to the mill; a flow regulator for regulating the flow rate of the primary recirculating exhaust gas to be led to the mill; a coal-feed-amount meter for sensing coal feed amount to be fed to the mill; and a controller for calculating specific gravity of the primary recirculating exhaust gas on the basis of the CO 2 and O 2 densities sensed by the CO 2 and O 2 density monitors, respectively, calculating weight flow rate of the primary recirculating exhaust gas on the basis of the specific gravity of the primary recirculating exhaust gas and the flow rate sensed by the flowmeter, calculating amount by weight of the pulverized coal fed from the mill on the basis of the coal feed amount sensed by the coal-feed-amount meter, defining G/C to be weight ratio of the flow rate of the primary recirculating exhaust gas to the amount of the pulverized coal from the mill, and outputting a flow control signal to the flow regulator so that the G/C lies within a predetermined range.