Vortex combustion boiler
AssigneeWe2E
InventorEmmit J. George
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Abstract
The present invention is an improved vortex incinerator suitable for complete or near complete combustion of solid materials, such as coal, waste coal fines, petroleum coke, biomass, waste tires, as well as municipal solid waste. The improvement includes a pulverizer for reducing the aforementioned combustible materials into an appropriate size. In addition to the pulverizer, a further improvement over the aforementioned vortex incinerator is the use of a pneumatic feeder to introduce the pulverized combustible material into the combustion chamber.
Claims7
An improved incinerator system suitable for incinerating solid combustible material, the incinerator system comprising:
- an incinerator including a combustion chamber having spaced end walls and sidewalls and defining a central longitudinal axis extending between the end walls,
- a pulverizer for receiving the combustible material ranging in a size of approximately 3.715 mm to 50 mm in diameter and reducing the size of the combustible material to a pulverized combustible material having pulverized size of approximately 0.0118 mm to 0.0059 mm,
- a pneumatic feeder for receiving the pulverized material and mixing the pulverized combustible material with air to form a mixture, and feeding the mixture into an inlet of the combustion chamber tangentially to said sidewall and creating a vortical movement of the mixture toward one of said end walls,
- an ignition device adapted to ignite the mixture in the chamber;
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- a controller operatively connected to the pneumatic feeder and the pulverizer, the controller adapted to adjust a rate of feeding the mixture to the combustion chamber.
An incinerator system comprising:
- an incinerator including a combustion chamber having spaced end walls and sidewalls and defining a central longitudinal axis extending between the end walls,
- a pulverizer for receiving the combustible material and reducing the size of the combustible material to a pulverized combustible material having pulverized size of less than 8 mm,
- a pneumatic feeder for receiving the pulverized material and mixing the pulverized combustible material with air to form a mixture, and feeding the mixture into an inlet of the combustion chamber tangentially to said sidewall and creating a vortical movement of the mixture toward one of said end walls,
- an ignition device adapted to ignite the mixture in the chamber;
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- a controller operatively connected to the pneumatic feeder and the pulverizer, the controller adapted to adjust a rate of feeding the mixture to the combustion chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.