Abstract:
The present invention relates to burners and boiler structures of heating systems which work with solid fuel or which work especially with wood pellets, olive stones and other similar propellants. The burner has a “C”-shaped grate structure comprising a grate mount (4.2) for opening and closing an ash discharging mouth, and the top grate made up by the following components: Grate arms (4.1.2) that can move at a horizontal angle over connecting grate shafts (4.1.3) independent from each other; grate shims (4.1.4) located on the grate shafts (4.1.3) and between the grate arms (4.1.2); a shank (4.1.5) connecting the grate arms (4.1.2) to a grate frame (4.1.1), and the top grate to the grate mount (4.2), thus enabling the top grate to move in an upwards or downwards motion limited by supports (4.1.7, 4.1.8). Furthermore, the burner comprises uneven rails on which the top grate moves guided by guide pins (4.1.6).
Abstract:
An improved fire grate may provide fresh oxygen rich air to a secondary combustion zone, created by the improved fire grate, of a combustion chamber where a combustion gas stream is typically oxygen starved assisting in the burning process of incompletely burned particulates and reducing other harmful emissions. A baffle plate may be introduced in the secondary combustion zone to increase a combustion chamber temperature, encourage mixing of oxygen starved air with oxygen rich air and increase a residence time of the combustion gas within the combustion chamber. These aspects of the baffle plate promote more efficient burning of the biomass/fuel. Additionally, log lighter(s) may be disposed in the secondary combustion zone to increase a temperature of the combustion chamber for the purposes of reducing harmful emissions. The improved fire grate may be horizontally and vertically adjusted to fit within different sized fireplace combustion chambers.
Abstract:
A grate bar and a grate for a stepped-grate furnace stoker. The grate bar includes a flat part whose top surface is used to receive the incinerated elements, and the extends into a rear end and a front end, each forming a return that acts as a support point for the bar. The bar also includes a longitudinal projection located under the flat part, and that extends at least partially between the rear and front ends of the bar. At least one angled cutting element or knife is located under the flat part, on a first side of the longitudinal projection, whose function is to facilitate the removal of the refractory materials that have accumulated progressively. The grate includes at least one bar or group of three bars. In the second case, the central bar in the group is mobile in relation to the two lateral bars.
Abstract:
A water-cooled firing grate made up of grate bar blocks extending over the width of the grate and each having a plurality of grate bars mounted on a grate bar carrier and interconnected by connecting pieces communicating between meandering shaped channels in the grate bar and a pair of end pieces forming an inlet and an outlet at the outer boundaries of the block and connected to an inlet and an outlet for the cooling water. The pieces are so fixed to the bars that they maintain a clearance between the bars of 1 to 1.5 mm.
Abstract:
A thrust combustion grate for burning refuse having altemately stationary (5) and movable (6) hollow grate plates (5,6) in a stairway formation, that rest on each other with their front underedge. The grate plates extend across the entire width of the grateway. The movable grate plates (6) are each driven by a hydraulic cylinder-piston unit (18,19). To the sides, the grateway is limited by panels of water-cooled conduits (8,9), which, in the longitudinal direction, each consist of at least two sections sealingly flanged together. The panels are rigidly screwed to each other by a plurality of horizontally disposed distancing bars (3,4) running perpendicular thereto. Running between the panels are two additional conduits (10,11) flanged together in the same way, for feeding primary air and cooling water, which are fixed to certain individual distancing bars (3,4). The back sides of the stationary grate plates (5) each rest on one distancing bar (3) while the back sides of the movable grate plates (6) rest on at least one steel roller (16,17) with a horizontal axis, with each side of their front sides being guided along a steel roller (20,21) whose axis runs perpendicular to the grate plate (6). The front portions of the grate plates (6) form by primary air slots (25).
Abstract:
A roller grate arrangement for garbage-incinerating plants, in which a plurality of rollers with horizontal and parallel axes lie in an inclined plane. Primary air is fed to interiors of the rollers by air boxes located below the grate. The rollers have surfaces with air gaps for supplying the primary air, and the rollers are positioned to form a space between adjacent rollers. A component in the space between adjacent rollers bridges the space between adjacent rollers. The component is free of air passages. Blast pipes are positioned in spaces between adjacent rollers and are connected to a separate system for feeding supplemental air.
Abstract:
A variety of essentially circulr-planform fire grates having ash discharge openings therein and intimate-contact preventing means thereon is presented. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuation-free profile in the circumferential direction of the fire grate comprises first fluctuation-free-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuation-free-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuational profile in the circumferential direction of the fire grate comprises first fluctuational-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuational-bottom spider-web-planform fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile. Also presented are generally polygonal-planform stationary fire grates having ash discharge openings therein and intimate-contact preventing means. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuational profile in one Cartesian coordinate direction comprises first fluctuational-bottom straight fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuational-bottom straight fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuation-free profile in one Cartesian coordinate direction comprises first fluctuation-free-bottom straight fins having fin upper surface of fluctuation-free profile and second fluctuation-free-bottom straight fins having fin upper surface of fluctuational profile.
Abstract:
Improvements for an incinerator system including double reburn tunnels, an excitor within a reburn tunnel, a choker for closing off part of a reburn tunnel, a grate near the incinerator's inlet to permit the drying and initial combustion of refuse, an ash scoop which remains out of the water during most of its operation. The use of dual reburn tunnels, along with a damper that permits the closure of at least one of them, permits the efficient and environmentally acceptable utilization of the main incinerator chamber even with minimal refuse contained there. With less refuse, only one reburn unit operates; it will still have sufficient heat and throughput to maintain, with minimal auxiliary fuel, the temperatures needed for complete combustion. An excitor, or solid stationary object placed within the reburn tunnel, permits the retention and reflection of the heat generated by the burning to assure complete combustion of all hydrocarbons within the reburn unit. Additionally, the air utilized in the reburn unit may enter through the excitor for the efficient distribution and concomitant combustion.
Abstract:
The combustion, cooling or other treatment of solids with the aid of gas may take place on a grate carrying or conveying said solids while the gas is passed through openings provided in the surface of the grate. In order to retain said solids entirely above said grate surface, to cool the grate surface sufficiently and to distribute the gas evenly in the solids to be treated, thin slots, inclined in the direction of transport, curved in the manner of a siphone and maintaining a high resistance to gas penetration are provided in grate plates composed to form a grate. The slots are formed between elements of such grate plates which can be manufactured by casting. The design of these grate plates avoids the necessity of handling dribblings passing said grates. The grate plates can be aerated through grate beams carrying them.
Abstract:
A bio-mass burner having a continuous feed on demand to a first combustion chamber that contains a hollow grate structure. The novel method of operation includes the use of at least one venturi tube which is in fluid communication with the hollow grate structure to establish an air flow into a second combustion chamber. Primary air to support combustion in the first chamber is supplied to the underside of the grate structure. Secondary air to support combustion in the second chamber is supplied through the hollow grate structure and then to the venturi tube in a sufficiently tortuous path through the first combustion chamber to insure that the air is superheated at the outlet of the venturi tube. A baffle arrangement in the first combustion chamber directs the fuel product toward the grate structure and assists in preventing any unburned gases from being ejected into the atmosphere.