Apparatus for stoking a combustor
OwnerLothar Teskeinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for feeding a combustor with viscous bulk material, particularly coal slurry, comprises two silos which are associated with at least one conveyor system, for transporting the bulk material from the silos to a plurality of fuel-feeders in the combustor. Advantageously, two conveyor systems are linked with each other so that bulk material can be distributed uniformly either from both silos or from one of the silos to all the fuel-feeders of the combustor.
Claims12
In an apparatus for loading a combustor with viscous bulk material, particularly coal slurry, comprising two silos provided side by side and at least one continuous conveyor associated therewith which can transport said bulk material from said silos, said continuous conveyor having at least two outlet openings leading to every fuel-feeder of said combustor and spaced one after the other in the feed direction of said bulk material and said fuel-feeders opening into said combustor so that said bulk material fed through said fuel-feeders is distributed nearly uniformly throughout said combustor when said bulk material is being fed from both of said silos, the improvement wherein said apparatus has a first one of said continuous conveyors connected to one of said silos and each of said first ones of said continuous conveyors is followed in said feed direction of said bulk material by a second one of said continuous conveyors, said outlet openings of both first continuous conveyors being alternately closable, each of said outlet openings of both of said first continuous conveyors opening into an inlet opening of one of said second continuous conveyors, said second continuous conveyors being formed to feed said bulk material into a common intermediate silo and from said intermediate silo to a third one of said continuous conveyors, said intermediate silos having at least two intermediate silo outlet ducts leading to each one of said fuel-feeders of said combustor, and said third continuous conveyors leading to at least two additional ones of said fuel-feeders of said combustor feedable with said bulk material from said third continuous conveyors.
An apparatus for loading bulk material, particularly coal slurry, into a combustor comprising:
- two silos for said bulk material positioned side by side;
- a plurality of fuel-feeders opening into said combustor where said bulk material is admitted to said combustor;
- two conveyor systems each including a first continuous conveyer which receives said bulk material from one of said silos only;
- two outlet openings alternatively closable by a common sliding cover in each of said first continuous conveyors;
- two second continuous conveyors having two inlet openings each connected to both of said first continuous conveyors and also having a single outlet opening;
- two third continuous conveyors having a single inlet opening receiving said bulk material from one of said second continuous conveyors;
- two fourth continuous conveyors each connected to one of said third continuous conveyors to receive said bulk material therefrom and to at least two of said fuel-feeders to deliver said bulk material to said combustor;
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- a common intermediate silo connected to both of said second continuous conveyors so as to receive said bulk material therefrom, connected to at least one of said fuel-feeders by a screw conveyor so as to be able to feed said bulk material to said combustor, and from which said bulk material can also be delivered to said third continuous conveyors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.