Abstract:
Apparatus for cleaning air ports in a chemical recovery furnace includes a face plate removably received in a frame secured to the outer wall of the wind box associated with the furnace. The face plate pivotally carries a plurality of tubes which sealingly receive rods adapted to slide in the tubes toward and away from the air ports on the interior furnace or firebox wall. An actuating cylinder moves the rods toward the air port openings, while a reciprocating mechanism rotates the aforementioned tubes causing cleaning tips on the rod ends to enter the air port openings and clean char buildup along the edges thereof.
Abstract:
A gas burning furnace system is disclosed, including a blower which draws air from outside the home for combustion. The blower forces combustion air to the gas burner via a pressure box situated between the blower and the burner. The pressure box encloses a barrier having an adjustable aperture therein, through which the combustion air must pass before reaching the burner. By adjusting the size of the aperture, the rate of supply of combustion air to the burner can be regulated so as to produce complete fuel combustion without cooling the firebox.
Abstract:
In a furnace in which the waste is loaded into a central shaft at the bot of which it is held up by a device for letting through small particles after the column of waste has been exposed to degassing and drying heat entering laterally from a smoke chamber. Fresh air is supplied in substoichiometric quantity into the column of waste and is supplied in further quantity through the device for holding up the material in the column as well as just above it and, finally, also in a combustion chamber below the device for afterburning combustible gases. There is an opening between the device for holding up the waste material in the shaft and the inner wall of the shaft to material to form an inclined layer down to the hole at the bottom of the shaft, enclosing a combustion space. An ember bed forms here, from which melted material passes down through a combustion chamber below and through a drain in the floor of the combustion chamber. Gases evolved in the shaft are sucked down through the same opening into the combustion chamber for completion of combustion and development of heat in the lateral smoke chamber through they pass in the process of being exhausted after suitable filtering. Tubular ducts are provided in the shaft for supply of additional fresh air or, if needed, in starting up, for example, of a fuel gas. With waste of the usual composition, the combustion process will run without the addition of heat from an external source.
Abstract:
A combustion apparatus utilizing an auger having an integral air supply system. The apparatus includes a cylindrical combustion chamber containing a rotatable auger. Waste is delivered to one end of the combustion chamber and is conveyed through the chamber by the auger, and ash and the non-combustible residue is discharged from the opposite end while the waste gases are discharged through a cyclone separator to remove fly ash. The auger is composed of a tubular shaft and a hollow spiral flight. Air is introduced into the downstream end of the shaft and flows through the hollow flight and exits through outlet holes in the flight into the combustion chamber. A portion of the air is introduced into the mass of waste being conveyed by the auger to provide primary air for combustion, while a second portion of the air is discharged from the flight into the upper zone of the combustion chamber above the level of the waste, to provide secondary combustion of the waste gases.
Abstract:
A covered air scoop for a gas turbine combustor comprising a tubular member radially extending through the combustor shell to define an air inlet. A symmetrical cap member is disposed in spaced, overhanging relationship over the inlet. To enter the combustor, the air must flow into the cap member, thereby causing all air to enter the tube in a substantially uniform manner so that the air flow through all similarly constructed air tubes at a common axial location of the combustor is substantially equal at all times.
Abstract:
An elongate combustion chamber is inclined at a 50.degree. to 80.degree. angle to the vertical, is connected at the lower end face to a feed duct through which fuel is pushed into the chamber and is open at the upper end face. The side walls forming the lower part of the chamber are downwardly converging and the free edges are spaced from each other at a distance decreasing in the direction of the open upper end face from the lower end face to form a primary air opening from a primary air channel therebeneath, the tapered opening covered by corresponding downwardly converging solid side walls connected at an apex and spaced from the other walls to form an air passage therebetween from the primary air channel to the combustion chamber. The upper side walls of the combustion chamber defining the lower partition of a secondary air channel and being provided with openings for secondary air feed into the chamber, end plates sealing the upper and lower ends of the chamber and primary and secondary air channels, and blast-air feed conduits connected into the lower ends of the primary and secondary air channels to supply air thereto from a blower.
Abstract:
A controlled air incinerator having an increased capacity for burning waste material and having increased efficiency for completely burning all burnable waste material fed thereto. The controlled air incinerator, which is sometimes referred to as a "starved air" incinerator, requires accurate control of burning conditions so as to provide at all times a discharge of clean flue gases free from pollutants. In the present incinerator, means are provided for transferring the waste material therethrough while burning, the means causing the burning waste material to tumble within the combustion chamber and open up so as to expose to combustion air any unburned but burnable parts of the waste material whereby the oxygen of the combustion air will result in complete combustion. The incinerator system is essentially completely automatic in that the combustion chamber of the system may be loaded without changing burning conditions in the combustion chamber and the waste material loaded therein is progressively moved through the combustion chamber while burning from the inlet end to the discharge end by transfer means, the movement of the burning waste material resulting in more complete combustion. The system further has means for automatically discharging products of combustion, such as ash, from the outlet end of the combustion chamber without disturbing the burning conditions within the combustion chamber.
Abstract:
A method of and furnace for burning waste material, according to which theaste material is for drying and degasifying same heated in a container whereupon the thus degasified waste material and the waste gases formed during such heating and drying operation are burned in a combustion chamber directly following the container while fresh air is added to the degasified waste material and to the waste gases formed during the heating operation. The heating of the waste material in the container is effected under exclusion of air, and the thus formed waste gases together with the degasified waste material are passed through a constriction located between the container receiving the waste material to be burned and the combustion chamber, the fresh air being added to the degasified waste material and to the waste gases at the constriction.
Abstract:
Described herein is a waste heat steam boiler which is capable of using as secondary combustion air, the exhaust gases from a steam turbine. The boiler has burners which are fed with primary combustion air by an air blower. This air is cool and can be used to keep part of the burners cool. The burners have throats supplied with secondary combustion air from a windbox which receives this secondary air either from the gas turbine or from a forced draught fan. The burner throats are adjustable between an open full quarl position when the secondary air is the gas turbine exhaust and a partially closed position where the effective quarl diameter is reduced when the secondary air is supplied by the forced draught fan.
Abstract:
This invention provides apparatus for admixing combustion air, particularly air supplied at low pressure, with fluid or finely divided solid fuel for combustion, preferably in substantially stoichiometric proportions, in which air is passed from a windbox spirally inwardly between multiple overlapping vanes into a vortex chamber, thence through a coaxially aligned frusto-conical nozzle into a coaxially aligned cylindrical combustion chamber with the fuel being injected into the air passing through the nozzle, the critical dimensions of the air passage being related so that the flow of the air is constrained by its passage between the vanes, through the vortex chamber, through the nozzle and into the combustion chamber to generate therein a tangential velocity (swirl) which is sufficiently strong to establish a critical recirculating centre core of combustion gases in the combustion chamber and ensure complete combustion of the fuel.