Combustor with multistage internal vortices
- 4524 Andes Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030
- 114 Beechwood St., Morgantown, WV 26505
A fluidized bed combustor is provided with a multistage arrangement of vortex generators in the freeboard area. The vortex generators are provided by nozzle means which extend into the interior of the freeboard for forming vortices within the freeboard area to enhance the combustion of particulate material entrained in product gases ascending into the freeboard from the fluidized bed. Each of the nozzles are radially inwardly spaced from the combustor walls defining the freeboard to provide for the formation of an essentially vortex-free, vertically extending annulus about the vortices whereby the particulate material centrifuged from the vortices against the inner walls of the combustor is returned through the annulus to the fluidized bed. By adjusting the vortex pattern within the freeboard, a significant portion of the full cross-sectional area of the freeboard except for the peripheral annulus can be contacted with the turbulent vortical flow for removing the particulate material from the gaseous products and also for enhancing the combustion thereof within the freeboard.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV
- Assignee:
- Shang; Jer Y. (4524 Andes Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030); Harrington; Richard E. (114 Beechwood St., Morgantown, WV 26505)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4867079
- OSTI ID:
- 867108
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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