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Burner furnace for solid fuels and a method of burning different kinds of solid fuel in this furnace

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OSTI ID:6301927

The method of burning different sorts of solid fuel in a tunnellike burner furnace comprises the steps of pulverizing the solid fuel particles to a size corresponding to optimum burning performance of the employed burners, supplying the pulverized particles in an air stream to the burners of the furnace and adjusting the supplied amount of pulverized particle-air mixture, and the amount of air in the mixture in accordance with the optimum burning performance of the burner. The burner furnace system for performing the method of this invention comprises a tunnel burner furnace having a plurality of ceiling burners and of side wall burners, a fuel distributor having a rotatable distributing channel communicating successively with respective burners and a dosing device connected to the input of the fuel distributor and adapted for adjusting the stream of the mixture of air with pulverized fuel particles.

Assignee:
Thermo Murg K G (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4250817
OSTI ID:
6301927
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English