Abstract: Combustion system. The system includes a combustor generating a combustion gas and a splitter for receiving the combustion gas and dividing the combustion gas into first and second gas streams. A temperature controller receives the first gas stream, mixes it with recycled gas and introduces it into a heat recovery steam generator at a desired temperature. A mixer receives the second gas stream, mixes it with recycled gas and introduces it into the heat recovery steam generator. The cool gas that exits the heat recovery steam generator forms the recycled gas. A suitable combustor is an oxy-coal combustor.

Abstract: A pellet fuel burner, such as a cooking grill, has a fire box with a generally open top plane. A pellet burner unit is disposed in the fire box below the cooking surface. A pellet feeding device opens into the fire box and is disposed so as to feed pellets into the burner unit. A pressure box has an inlet supplied with combustion air at a positive pressure. A plurality of outlets are provided in the pressure box and disposed so as to create a turbulent combustion air flow in the pellet burner unit. The outlets may include a first outlet disposed above the burner unit and a second outlet disposed below the burner unit. The turbulent combustion air flow and supply of pellets, particularly corn kernels from the pellet feeding device allow for a continuous sustained combustion of the fuel in the pellet burner.

Abstract: A furnace housing having a heat exchanger, an exhaust gas flue and an ash collecting bin therein. A burn chamber is provided in the housing with the heat exchanger being oriented in heat exchanging relation to the burn chamber. An inclined conduit extends through a wall in the furnace housing and terminates in the burn chamber. A rotatable shaft is attached to a burn basket having a bottom wall and a perforate side wall and an open top. The end of the conduit in the burn chamber terminates adjacent the open top of the burn basket. A closed housing is connected to an end of the conduit remote from the end in the burn chamber. A fan delivers air to the closed housing and then to the conduit. A pelletized fuel feeding apparatus delivers pelletized fuel from a storage device to the closed housing and then to the burn basket.

Abstract: An upwardly inclined, auger motivated stoker tube moves bio-mass pellets from a reservoir to a depending stoker nozzle through which the pellets drop onto a burning head carried in a traditional fire chamber. A relatively small orifice in the stoker nozzle aids in preventing backfire into the stoker tube. The burning head provides a convex top with peripheral rim structure to maintain bio-mass pellets in a coherent array for burning and is provided with a plurality of holes to distribute a forced air supply beneath the pellet array to aid combustion and ash removal.

Abstract: An improved process of the type wherein a fuel is first pyrolyzed in a chamber (14) and the resulting volatiles and non-volatiles then transferred to a combustion region (18) for burning, the improvement comprising temporarily storing at least a portion of the volatiles in an enclosure (24) spaced from the chamber (14) and the combustion region (18) when volatiles production exceeds the volatiles incineration capability of the combustion region. Apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a heating boiler operating on solid, comparatively finely divided fuel, such as chips or peat, and which is used to produce hot water or steam. The boiler comprises a furnace, in which the grate consists of a shell-like burning basket, which can be placed in rotary motion about its substantially horizontal axis. The rotating of the burning basket may be arranged by connecting to the basket a tubular arm provided with a gear wheel and which is connected to a motor placed outside the boiler. The arm then simultaneously serves as duct through which the fuel is introduced into the burning basket. The purpose of the rotating burning basket is to boost the combustion reaction so that comparatively wet fuel can be used in the boiler. The combustion may furthermore be boosted by placing the burning basket in the furnace in a housing having as its extension a cyclone constituting a helical exhaust duct for the flue gases, which sets the gases at high temperature into strongly turbulent motion.