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US 4,446,800 AGranted
Apparatus for firing solid fuels
AssigneeHB Megaron
InventorAnders Lovgren
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InventorAnders Lovgren
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This invention relates to a boiler installation for the combustion of solid fuels, for example forest waste material in the form of e.g. bark and/or chips, peat pellets, coal etc., which installation comprises a furnace located in connection to a heat medium portion and a grate located in the furnace. The grate feeds fuel from a fuel charge opening through the furnace while the fuel is being combusted, from which furnace the flue gases flow to the heat medium portion and continue to a chimney. The installation also includes at least one intake for controlled supply of combustion air in the form of at least primary and secondary combustion air. In order to improve the efficiency degree of such boiler installations and to render possible efficient and complete combustion of forest waste material and other biologic fuels, which may have a high moisture content, the rear portion of the grate means of the boiler installation, seen in the direction of movement, is located outside of the furnace space proper but connected thereto for forming a zone in connection to the charge opening for a certain drying of the fuel before it is fed into the furnace by the grate. The grate comprises transverse dogs running on a grate plane for advancing the fuel through the furnace, which grate plane is located above an arrangement for the supply of the primary combustion air from below to the fuel, and below the air intakes for the secondary combustion air.
An apparatus for combusting solid fuels such as forest waste material in the form of bark and/or chips, and other biological materials including peat, comprising a furnace, a heat medium portion being connected to the furnace, grate means located in the furnace for feeding fuel from a fuel charge opening through the furnace while the fuel is being combusted in a furnace space, flue gases flowing from said furnace space through the heat medium portion to a chimney, at least one intake for supplying a controlled supply of at least primary and secondary combustion air to the furnace space, the grate means having a rear portion, seen in the direction of movement, located outside the furnace space proper but in connection therewith, said rear portion forming a drying zone adjacent the charge opening for effecting a partial drying of the fuel before the fuel is fed by the grate means into the furnace space, the grate means further including a plurality of transverse dogs running in contact with an upper surface of a stationary grate plane for advancing the fuel through the furnace, the grate plane being located above means for supplying the primary combustion air from below to the fuel, and below air intakes for supplying the secondary combustion air.
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