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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1996
Jeffrey S Mann, Broad Brook, CT (US);
Michael S McCartney, Bloomfield, CT (US);
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
A steam generator apparatus which includes an enclosure comprising vertically extending front and back waterwalls joined by opposed spaced first and second waterwalls, The enclosure also includes a plurality of spaced vertically extending windboxes, each of the windboxes faces the interior of the enclosure. Each of the windboxes comprises a plurality of modules that are configured for installation at respective elevations, each of the modules being dimensioned and configured for shipment to the installation site. Some forms of the invention further includes a vertically extending truss assembly and the ignitor and auxiliary air compartments are supported on the truss assembly. Other forms of the invention include air ducting supplying air to air compartments and the truss assembly extends within the ducting. Still other forms of the invention may utilize the truss assembly without the modular windbox.