In-bed tube bank for a fluidized-bed combustor

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:867520

Hemenway, Jr., Lloyd F. ^[1]

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1. (Morgantown, WV)

An in-bed tube bank (10) for a fluidized bed combustor. The tube bank (10) of the present invention comprises one or more fluid communicating boiler tubes (30) which define a plurality of selectively spaced boiler tube sections (32). The tube sections (32) are substantially parallel to one another and aligned in a common plane. The tube bank (10) further comprises support members (34) for joining adjacent tube sections (32), the support members (34) engaging and extending along a selected length of the tube sections (32) and spanning the preselected space therebetween.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4955942
• OSTI ID: 867520
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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