Combustion Engineering, Inc.

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Michael J Hargrove

John H Chiu

Jason Jeremy Wailgum

Bernard H Walsh

Gary J Navitsky

Stuart A Morrison

Mark A Douglas

Steve Y Wong

A fluid recirculation system includes an arrangement of a flow control valve located to receive a flow of fluid from an inlet. The system further comprises an economizer inlet mixing device located to receive the flow of hotter fluid from the arrangement of the flow control valve and from a cooler feedwater stream. An economizer inlet mixing device located upstream of an economizer in a supercritical pressure boiler includes a sparger assembly through which a flow of fluid from the waterwall outlet is received, an inlet through which a flow of fluid from a feed stream is received, and a wave breaker assembly through which an outlet stream from the economizer inlet mixing device is directed.

Economizer water recirculation system for boiler exit gas temperature control in supercritical pressure boilers

A fluidized bed combustion system (10) particularly suited for use to effect the incineration, i.e., combustion, therewith of wood waste/sludge mixtures that have high moisture and ash content which makes them difficult to burn. The fluidized bed combustion system (10) includes a fluidized bed combustor (12) embodying a fluidized bed (24) composed of bed solids. Air is injected into the fluidized bed (24) through an air distributor (28) to establish a first controlled fluidizing velocity zone and a second controlled fluidizing velocity zone therewithin. Material (42b) is introduced into the fluidized bed combustor (12) above the second controlled fluidizing velocity zone. Bed solids are projected from the first controlled fluidizing velocity zone to the second controlled fluidizing velocity zone whereupon the bed solids rain down upon the material (42b) and effect a covering thereof. The material (42b) is then dried and thereafter combusted. Inerts/tramp materials/clinkers as well as large diameter solids entrained with the material (42b) are segregated therefrom and then are removed (14,200) from the fluidized bed combustor (12).

Internal circulation fluidized bed (ICFB) combustion system and method

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