Prototype anthracite culm combustion boiler/heater unit, City of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Quarterly technical report No. 2, January 1-March 31, 1979

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5890795· OSTI ID:5890795

There are currently about 910 million cubic yards of anthracite culm (mine refuse) contained in 800 separate banks in a 480 square mile area in the Wilkes-Barre (W-B) anthracite mining region. Although this material represents a significant fuel value equivalent to approximately 1.25 billion barrels of fuel oil, the culm banks have been allowed to accumulate because no satisfactory method of combusting this fuel was available until the relatively recent development of the atmospheric fluidized bed (AFB) steam generator. A program was initiated in October 1978 to design, construct, and evaluate a 100,000 pph AFB steam generator burning anthracite culm with the addition of fresh anthracite if required and demonstrate it to be technically, economically, and environmentally feasible to produce 150 psig saturated steam for district heating in downtown W-B. Phase I of the program consists of the design of the Atmospheric Fluidized Bed (AFB) boiler and boiler plant and a hot model test program consisting of twenty-one 12-hour batch tests and one 100-hour continuous test to provide a preliminary assessment of anthracite culm as a fuel and to identify commercially acceptable operating conditions for the design of the AFB boiler plant. Phase II of the program consists of construction, operation, testing, and evaluation of the boiler and boiler plant.

• Research Organization: Wilkes-Barre, City of, PA (USA); Pope, Evans and Robbins, Inc., New York (USA); Foster Wheeler Corp., Livingston, NJ (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5890795
• Report Number(s): FE-2652-T2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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