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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2001
David J. Walker, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Donald L. Wietzke, Copley, OH (US);
Gary L. Anderson, Blair Township, Blair County, PA (US);
Richard F. Romansky, Jr., Jackson Township, Stark County, OH (US);
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New Orleans, LA (US);
Abstract
A tube wall, division wall, or wing wall section ( ) for a circulating fluidized bed boiler with improved erosion resistant characteristics has a reduced diameter tube section ( ) adjacent the refractory covered by an abrasion resistant refractory tile ( ). The refractory tile ( ) is mounted to the reduced diameter tube section ( ) with the upper edge of the refractory tile outside of or not extending beyond a solids fall line of solids in the fluidized bed to eliminate exposed discontinuities.