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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1997
Donald L Wietzke, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Neil R Raskin, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Scott Darling, Annandale, NJ (US);
Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
A fluidized bed reactor including in its lower part a furnace section having a bed of fluidized solid particles, the furnace section being delimited by side walls such as external side walls and/or partition walls and a bottom grid, and a supplying device for introducing gas into the furnace section at a level above the bottom grid, the supplying device including a gas source chamber, an opening in at least one of the side walls at a level above the bottom grid, and a conduit having a first end connected to the opening and a second end connected to the gas source chamber. The conduit includes a solid flow seal preventing solid particles from flowing backwards from the furnace section into the conduit in a manner preventing or noticeably decreasing introduction of gas from the gas source chamber to the furnace section.