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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2002
James F. Durant, Windsor, CT (US);
John E. Ferguson, New Hartford, CT (US);
Glen D. Jukkola, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Reed S C. Rogers, Avon, CT (US);
Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A sorbent conditioning and direct feed apparatus is provided for direct feeding of a conditioned solid sorbent to a combustor . The sorbent conditioning and direct feed apparatus includes raw solid sorbent storages means , particle size reducing means for reducing the particle size of solid sorbent supplied thereto from a relatively larger coarse particle size to a relatively smaller fine particle size, metering means for metering the supply of raw solid sorbent from the raw solid sorbent storage means to the particle size reducing means , and transport means for transporting solid sorbent which has been conditioned by the particle size reducing means to the combustor , whereby conditioned solid sorbent is fed to the combustor without any intermediate storage of the solid sorbent between the raw solid sorbent storage means and the transport means