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US 4,279,205 AGranted
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AssigneeWormser Engineering, Inc.
InventorsStephen P. Perkins, Alex F. Wormser
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Abstract
A fluidized combustor is provided with a burning zone having cooling passages in its upper portion and a lower portion beneath said passages yet deep enough so that material therein may be operated in a fluid bed combustor mode with cooling by fluidizing excess air, a separate zone being provided for selective storage therein of materials transferred from the burning zone.
Claims10
A fluidized bed combustor comprising
- burning means including
- apertured means defining a support for fluidization of contents supported thereby,
- housing means for defining with said support a burning zone,
- heat transfer means for carrying fluid therethrough to remove heat produced by burning,
- said heat transfer means being spaced above said support to provide thereunder in said housing means above said support a first storage zone of depth to permit fluidized bed combustion of contents over said support without settledbed contact between the surface of said contents and any said heat transfer means,
- storage means defining a second storage zone to allow storage of materials removed from said first storage zone,
- means for selectively transferring materials from said first storage zone to said second storage zone, and
- means for selectively transferring material from said second storage zone to said first storage zone.
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