Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Steven F McNary

David K Anderson

John H Chiu

David Gordon Turek

Nicole M Phyfe

Donald G Mylchreest

There is provided a circulating fluidized bed steam generator (CFB) having an improved structural support system and an improved combined hot solids-gas separator for separating gas and solids from a combined gas-solids stream. The combined hot solids-gas separator is in the form of a cyclone assembly having a plurality of wall portions forming a separation chamber and an inlet for passage of a combined gas-solids stream into the separation chamber. The lowermost extent of the inlet forms a threshold over which the combined gas-solids stream flows in entering the separation chamber. The separation chamber is operable to separate the combined gas-solids stream into a predominantly gas exit stream and a predominantly solids exit stream in a manner by which separated out solids to be discharged from the separation chamber via the predominantly solids exit stream are collected within the separation chamber at a location lower than the inlet. The cyclone assembly further includes a separated solids discharge for the discharge therethrough of the predominantly solids exit stream having the collected separated out solids therein and a gas outlet duct for outward flow of the predominantly gas exit stream out of the separation chamber.

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North Granby, CT, United States of America

Steven F McNary