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AssigneesAir Liquide America Corporation, American Air Liquide, Inc., L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies, Inc.
InventorsLouis C. Philippe, Eric L. Duchateau, David R. Scheeff, Arie Verloop, Edward C. Dye
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Methods of increasing the throughput of recovery boilers equipped with at least two levels of injection of air, the methods improving the thermal efficiency of the boiler with oxygen enrichment of the air in at least one level of the combustion air system, at or above the secondary air level. In one method, a black liquor recover boiler having two levels of air injection is retrofitted with a third level of oxidant injection below or at the same level as the original secondary air, and oxygen enrichment is applied to at least the original secondary air stream and the third level air stream. A preferred method is for the third level to be placed at or close to the same level as the black liquor injector ports.
A method to increase throughput of a recovery boiler equipped with at least primary and secondary levels of injected combustion air, the method comprising operating the boiler with oxygen enrichment of at least one of said levels of injected combustion air, said oxygen enrichment being only in said secondary level of injected combustion air if the recovery boiler has only primary and secondary levels of injected combustion air, said oxygen enrichment being in one or more levels of injected combustion air selected from the group consisting of secondary, tertiary and quaternary levels for recovery boilers having more than primary and secondary levels of injected combustion air.
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