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Title: Regeneratively cooled coal combustor/gasifier with integral dry ash removal

Abstract

A coal combustor/gasifier is disclosed which produces a low or medium combustion gas fired furnances or boilers. Two concentric shells define a combustion air flows to provide regenerative cooling of the inner shell for dry ash operation. A fuel flow and a combustion air flow having opposed swirls are mixed and burned in a mixing-combustion portion of the combustion volume and the ash laden combustion products flow with a residual swirl into an ash separation region. The ash is cooled below the fusion temperature and is moved to the wall by centrifugal force where it is entrained in the cool wall boundary layer. The boundary layer is stabilized against ash re-entrainment as it is moved to an ash removal annulus by a flow of air from the plenum through slots in the inner shell, and by suction on an ash removal skimmer slot.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6459934
Application Number:
ON: DE83006903
Assignee:
ERA-08-018480; EDB-83-051393
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; COAL; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTORS; DESIGN; FUEL GAS; PRODUCTION; ASHES; COAL GASIFICATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; OPERATION; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY SOURCES; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GASIFICATION; MATERIALS; OXIDATION; RESIDUES; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; 421000* - Engineering- Combustion Systems; 014000 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Combustion; 010404 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Gasification

Citation Formats

Beaufrere, A H. Regeneratively cooled coal combustor/gasifier with integral dry ash removal. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
Beaufrere, A H. Regeneratively cooled coal combustor/gasifier with integral dry ash removal. United States.
Beaufrere, A H. Fri . "Regeneratively cooled coal combustor/gasifier with integral dry ash removal". United States.
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abstractNote = {A coal combustor/gasifier is disclosed which produces a low or medium combustion gas fired furnances or boilers. Two concentric shells define a combustion air flows to provide regenerative cooling of the inner shell for dry ash operation. A fuel flow and a combustion air flow having opposed swirls are mixed and burned in a mixing-combustion portion of the combustion volume and the ash laden combustion products flow with a residual swirl into an ash separation region. The ash is cooled below the fusion temperature and is moved to the wall by centrifugal force where it is entrained in the cool wall boundary layer. The boundary layer is stabilized against ash re-entrainment as it is moved to an ash removal annulus by a flow of air from the plenum through slots in the inner shell, and by suction on an ash removal skimmer slot.},
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year = {1982},
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