Biomass heat exchanger furnace

Patent · Tue May 22 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6429029

Sukup, E G

A hot air heat exchanger furnace that uses crop residue as a fuel source is provided for producing the heat required for various purposes, such as the drying of grains, peanuts, soybeans and other materials and for the heating of buildings. The furnace includes a combustion chamber, an upper manifold, a lower manifold, a plenum and a number of exhaust tubes. The exhaust tubes direct the flow of combustion gases from the combustion chamber in a serpentine path in the plenum between the upper and lower manifolds and into a stack. Meanwhile, ambient air passes into the plenum, past the heat transfer surfaces of the combustion chamber and the exhaust tubes as heat transfers to it. Then it passes out of the furnace.

• Assignee: EDB-84-174981
• Patent Number(s): US 4449510
• OSTI ID: 6429029
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AGRICULTURAL WASTES
AIR FLOW
BIOMASS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
DESIGN
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY TRANSFER
EXHAUST GASES
EXHAUST SYSTEMS
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDS
FURNACES
GAS FLOW
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
ORGANIC WASTES
OXIDATION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WASTES