Curtiss-wright Corporation

William S Hosek

Angelo De Feo

Angelo DeFeo

Edward J Garruto

A fluidized bed combustor comprises a reactor or a housing which has a windbox distributor plate adjacent the lower end thereof which contains a multiplicity of hole and air discharge nozzles for discharging air and coal into a fluidized bed which is maintained above the distributor plate and below a take-off connection or flue to a cyclone separator in which some of the products of combustion are treated to remove the dust which is returned into the fluidized bed. A windbox is spaced below the fluidized bed and it has a plurality of tubes passing therethrough with the passage of combustion air and fluidizing air which passes through an air space so that fluidizing air is discharged into the reaction chamber fluidized bed at the bottom thereof to maintain the bed in a fluidized condition. A fluid, such as air, is passed through the tubes which extend through the windbox and provide a preheating of the combustion air and into an annular space between telescoped inner and outer tubes which comprise heat exchanger tubes or cooling tubes which extend upwardly through the distributor plate into the fluidized bed. The heat exchanger tubes are advantageously arranged so that they may be exposed in groups within the reactor in a cluster which is arranged within holding rings.

Tube construction for fluidized bed combustor

A coal supply gun assembly for a fluidized bed combustor which includes heat exchange elements extending above the bed's distributor plate assembly and in which the gun's nozzles are disposed relative to the heat exchange elements to only discharge granular coal material between adjacent heat exchange elements and in a path which is substantially equidistant from adjacent heat exchange elements.

Fluidized bed combustor and coal gun-tube assembly therefor

A fluidized bed combustor comprises a housing having a chamber therein with a top having a discharge for the gases which are generated in the chamber and a bottom with a discharge for heated fluid. An assembly is arranged in the lower portion of the chamber and the assembly includes a lower plate which is mounted on a support flange of the housing so that it is spaced from the bottom of the chamber and defines a fluid plenum between it and the bottom of the chamber for the discharge of heated fluid. The assembly includes a heat exchanger inlet plenum having tubes therethrough for the passage of fluidizer air and a windbox above the heat exchanger plenum which has a distributor plate top wall. A portion of the chamber above the top wall defines a fluidized bed.

Fluidized bed combustor and removable windbox and tube assembly therefor

A pressurized, fluidized bed combustor including a housing having a combustor chamber therein with a distributor plate closing the lower portion of the housing and arranged above a fluidizer windbox, which, in turn, is arranged above a heat exchanger inlet plenum which is mounted above a bottom of the combustor. A coal gun is provided for discharging coal into the fluidized bed, and it comprises an outer guide tube which extends from a spaced location above the distributor plate downwardly through the bottom of the combustor chamber and it includes a portion which extends exteriorly of the combustor chamber. This exterior portion carries a ball valve which has a passage therethrough which makes it possible to insert a coal supply pipe upwardly in the interior of the outer guide pipe and through the passage of the ball valve up to substantially the top of the outer pipe at a location above the distributor plate within the reaction bed. For withdrawing the coal supply pipe, it is possible to remove the pipe downwardly through the ball valve until the top end thereof is located directly below the ball valve but still within the outer diameter pipe and located within a stuffing box thereof. At such location, then the ball valve is closed and the ball supply pipe may be withdrawn all the way without reducing the pressure in the reactor.

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Mt. Tabor, NJ, United States of America

William S Hosek