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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel E McCoy, Williamsport, PA (US);
Assignee:
Tampella Power Corporation, Williamsport, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F23D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
122 / ; 110245 ;
Abstract
A fluidized bed boiler or reactor comprising a housing, a reaction (furnace) chamber within the housing, air distribution means within the reaction chamber, a plurality of perimeter walls approximately vertically disposed and arranged about the interior walls of the housing so as to define the reaction chamber, wherein the improvement comprises: providing at least a portion of the vertically disposed perimeter walls with an outward slope sufficient to reduce or eliminate erosion of the perimeter walls caused by impact from entrained solid particles contained within the reaction chamber.