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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1988
Filed:
May. 21, 1986
Werner Emsperger, Erlangen, DE;
Hermann Bruckner, Uttenreuth, DE;
Georg Losel, Uttenreuth, DE;
Rudolf Pieper, Erlangen, DE;
Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft, Mulheim/Ruhr, DE;
Abstract
A combustion chamber with a fluidized bed furnace having a nozzle plate, a fuel feed above the nozzle plate, a primary air feed below the nozzle plate, an exhaust gas channel at an upper end of the combustion chamber, and heat-exchanging heating surfaces includes a cylindrical combustion chamber wall disposed vertically upright and having, in an upper region thereof, a plurality of secondary air nozzles disposed tangentially as well as downwardly inclined to the cylindrical wall for separating and returning unspent solid particles into a lower region of the fluidized bed, a device for directing a flow of gas and particles vertically upwardly in a central region of the combustion chamber and spirally downwardly along the cylindrical wall, and a device for impressing an upwardly increasing rotary flow about an axis of symmetry of the combustion chamber upon the gas flow.