Fluidized bed combustion

Patent · Tue Oct 29 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5380176

Sowards, N K; Murphy, M L

This patent describes a vessel. It comprises a fluid bed for continuously incinerating fuel comprising tire segments and the like which comprise metallic wire tramp and for concurrently removing tramp and bed materials at a bottom effluent exit means of the vessel, the vessel further comprising static air distributor means at the periphery of the bed comprising a substantially centrally unobstructed relatively large central region in which the fluid bed and fuel only are disposed and through which bed material and tramp migrate without obstruction to and through the effluent exit means, downwardly and inwardly stepped lower vessel wall means and a plurality of peripherally located centrally directed vertically and horizontally offset spaced air influent means surrounding the central region and associated with the stepped lower vessel wall means by which the bed is supported and fluidized.

• Assignee: Energy Products of Idaho, Coer d'Alene, ID (United States)
• Patent Number(s): A; US 5060584
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-542229
• OSTI ID: 5380176
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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320305 -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400800 -- Combustion
Pyrolysis
& High-Temperature Chemistry
BIOMASS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTORS
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTION
FLUIDIZED-BED COMBUSTORS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
OXIDATION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TIRES
WASTES