Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Mark Daniel D'agostini

Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov

Michael J Gallagher

Kevin Boyle Fogash

Xiaoyi He

Reed Jacob Hendershot

Anup Vasant Sane

Michael David Buzinski

Matthew James Watson

Gregory J Buragino

Francis Anthony Milcetich

Stephane Bernard Poussou

Anandkumar Makwana

William J Horan

Ashwin Vinod

Jeffrey William Kloosterman

Thomas David Lee

J Gregory Buragino

A process for combusting a high-moisture fuel to generate steam in which the high-moisture solid fuel is first dried by contacting with an oxygen-depleted gas stream while being heated by indirect heat exchange with a recirculating thermal fluid. The dried fuel is then combusted with a combustion air stream to produce a combustion products stream whose heat first is used to generate steam, and then to preheat the combustion air stream by indirect heat exchange in which a portion of the combustion air stream and/or a portion of the combustion products stream bypasses the heat exchanger. The combustion products stream also provides heat to dry the solid fuel via the recirculating thermal fluid.

System and method for combusting high-moisture fuel to generate steam

Growing community of inventors

Allentown, PA, United States of America

Mark Daniel D'agostini