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Fluidized bed furnace

US4340000A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 30, 1979
Grant dateJul 20, 1982
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Expiry dateMar 30, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF23C10/22
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A fluidized bed furnace having a vessel with cooled or insulated walls and an inflow plate. A fluidized bed of inert material is maintained by air nozzles in the inflow plate and heated to the ignition temperature of coal. Pressure pipes deliver the coal and, if appropriate, additives such as lime, into the vessel below the upper boundary of the fluidized bed for combustion.

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