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Title: Pressurized fluidized bed reactor

Abstract

A pressurized fluid bed reactor power plant includes a fluidized bed reactor contained within a pressure vessel with a pressurized gas volume between the reactor and the vessel. A first conduit supplies primary gas from the gas volume to the reactor, passing outside the pressure vessel and then returning through the pressure vessel to the reactor, and pressurized gas is supplied from a compressor through a second conduit to the gas volume. A third conduit, comprising a hot gas discharge, carries gases from the reactor, through a filter, and ultimately to a turbine. During normal operation of the plant, pressurized gas is withdrawn from the gas volume through the first conduit and introduced into the reactor at a substantially continuously controlled rate as the primary gas to the reactor. In response to an operational disturbance of the plant, the flow of gas in the first, second, and third conduits is terminated, and thereafter the pressure in the gas volume and in the reactor is substantially simultaneously reduced by opening pressure relief valves in the first and third conduits, and optionally by passing air directly from the second conduit to the turbine. 1 fig.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
City of Lakeland
OSTI Identifier:
203877
Patent Number(s):
US 5,499,498/A/
Application Number:
PAN: 8-421,312
Assignee:
Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, Karhula (Finland)
DOE Contract Number:  
FC21-91MC27364
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 19 Mar 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTORS; DESIGN; OPERATION; PRESSURIZATION; PRESSURE VESSELS; PIPES; SAFETY ENGINEERING; GAS TURBINES

Citation Formats

Isaksson, J. Pressurized fluidized bed reactor. United States: N. p., 1996. Web.
Isaksson, J. Pressurized fluidized bed reactor. United States.
Isaksson, J. 1996. "Pressurized fluidized bed reactor". United States.
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