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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1981
James H Porter, Martha's Vineyard, MA (US);
Robert Davis, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jehangir Zakaria, Cambridge, MA (US);
Energy Resources Company, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A fluidized-bed system for feeding coal or a coal-limestone mixture into a fluidized bed combustor, a perforated horizontal distributor plate dividing the chamber into upper and lower chamber sections, means for feeding solid fuel particles into the upper chamber section, a source of high velocity gas connected to the lower chamber section and passing through the plate into the upper chamber section for entraining the particles, means for heating the high velocity gas before it is introduced into the upper chamber, an entrainment section defined by converging upper sides of said fuel feeding chamber, and a stream splitting section disposed above said entrainment section and connected to a plurality of pneumatic transport lines each penetrating the distributor plate of a fluidized bed combustor and terminating in an outlet feedport.