Abstract: A combination gas-turbine and steam-turbine process and a power plant that utilizes the process. A waste-heat recovery system with a steam-circulation system is downstream and a pressurized furnace with a combustion chamber is upstream of a gas turbine. Flue surfaces that heat air are accommodated in the furnace. A pressurized gasifier parallels the furnace. Flue gas from the furnace, preheated combustion air, and combustion gas from the gasifier are forwarded to the combustion chamber. The heat of combustion liberated in the furnace by heating the flue gas to beyond its combustion temperature is transmitted exclusively to the combustion air being forwarded to the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A device for transferring solid particles from an area of higher pressure to one of lower pressure. A stack-up section (3) between the areas is full of particles and large enough to reduce the current of gas flowing through the open stack-up section from the area of higher pressure as a result of the pressure loss that occurs in the stack-up section to a level that prevents pneumatic conveyance of the particles. A conveyor is in or at the end of the stack-up section.

Abstract: A furnace, especially a fluidized furnace with a combustion chamber (1) that gas flows up through and that has a gas outlet provided with a second flue (2) and a precipitator (10) for separating solids from the flue gas. The solids end of the precipitator communicates with the second flue, which accommodates a layer (12) of solid matter. The bottom of the second flue communicates by way of a solids-reintroduction line (14) with the combustion chamber. The second flue is a solids cooler and the precipitator is also a filter.

Abstract: A burner for burning gaseous and/or liquid fuels in a combustion space (5), through the face (3) of which an oil lance (12) and/or several gas lances (13 and 14) extend. The oil lance and at least some of the gas lances are surrounded by an air pipe (4) that supplies primary air with its outer surface demarcating a flue-gas recirculation channel that opens toward the combustion space and surrounded by a source of secondary air. The air pipe and the source of secondary air extend into the combustion space. The air pipe is surrounded inside the combustion space by a baffle (20) that is axially separated from the face of the combustion space. Some of the gas lances surround the air pipe and are mounted on a sector with a diameter that is shorter than the longest diameter of the baffle.

Abstract: Accommodated inside the housing (1) of a bowl-and-roller mill is a rotating grinding bowl (3) with segments (7) that stationary rollers (8) roll over. Blades (20) are cast onto the outside circumference of a nozzle ring (15).

Abstract: A forced-circulation steam generator with a combustion chamber (1) that has a cone (2), whereby the combustion chamber is demarcated by piping walls with at least partly slanting pipes, the cone is composed of piping walls (9, 10, 11, and 12) with upright pipes, and the pipes in the combustion chamber are separated from the pipes in the cone by headers. The two series of pipes are separated such that the medium flowing through the pipes in the combustion chamber has the same enthalpy.

Abstract: A fluidized-bed furnace recirculates solids by way of one or more cyclone precipitators (6), the solids outlet of which communicates with the fluidized bed (4) by way of a trap (8) and a directly downstream chute (10). The coal intake opens into the chute. The outlet (9) from the trap (8) communicates with the chute (10) through a transitional section (11). The transitional section tapers out from the outlet from the trap and then in to the chute. The coal intake is above the wider section of the transitional section.

Abstract: To make it possible to burn brown coals with cinders that vary in composition in the fluidized bed (6) of one and the same steam generator, one of the flue surfaces (12 or 13) accommodated in flues (2 and 3) downstream of the bed is exploited by way of communicating lines (43, 44, and 45), which can be blocked off, as either economizers or superheaters as desired. The economizer mode is employed when a prescribed volume of flue gas is recirculated through a recirculation line (29) to maintain a fuel-type dictated low bed temperature of preferably 730.degree. to 760.degree. C. The superheater mode is employed when less flue gas is recirculated to maintain a fuel-type dictated higher bed temperature of preferably 820.degree. to 805.degree. C.

Abstract: Flue dust precipitated from the compressed gas from a fluidized-bed combustion chamber is conveyed by flue gas to an air-lock system while simultaneously being cooled to above the water and acid dew point of the flue gas. As it enters the air-lock system, the dust is separated from the flue gas and, once it has left the air-lock system, the dust is conveyed by air while simultaneously being cooled to a final temperature at which it can be removed.

Abstract: A flame-tube boiler is provided with a system of burners for the low-NO.sub.x combustion of heavy oil, with an air box (8) that communicates with the cooled flame tube (1) by way of a central primary-air channel (16) that surround an oil-burner lance (17) and by way of secondary-air feeds (18) that surround the primary-air channel. The flue-gas line (19) communicates with the flue-gas outlet (7) and accommodates a precipitator (20), which has a solids outlet that communicates with a ring of nozzle pipes (24) inside the burner and opening into the flame tube.

Abstract: An owl-mill crusher with stationary grinding rollers (6) inside a housing (1) that roll over a grinding bowl (3) resting on a rotating grinding-bowl support (5). An air box (8) is provided below the grinding bowl (3). A circular-conical disk (17) is secured to the grinding-bowl support (5) with its outer edge pointing down. A stationary cleanout arm (24) is positioned above the disk (17) with one end extending into the extraction shaft (20) of the removal container (21), which is mounted on the side of the housing. Several blades (25) are secured to the bottom of the disk.

Abstract: A cooler for gases generated from coal by gasification under pressure has a pressurized vessel (1) that accommodates an insert (5) with a polygonal cross-section made out of pipes (6) that are welded together gas-tight in conjunction with webs (7). The pipes in the insert are bent vertically in to create a roof (11) and parallel one another sector by sector with webs of uniform width. The pipes that abut at an angle at the edges of the sectors are united in pairs by forged crosstail butts (13). The crosstail butts are aligned along a straight line and completely occupy the spaces between the sectors.

Abstract: A steam generator and a method of burning fuels therein. A combustion chamber of gas-tight pipe walls has a fluidized bed. Above the bed is a free space with an incrementally lower solids density that accommodates heat-convection surfaces. Coarse-particle precipitators communicate with the top of the combustion chamber with their solids-extraction outlet communicating with the fluidized bed through a feedback system. The combustion chamber, its heat-convection surfaces, the coarse-particle precipitators, and the feedback system are surrounded by pressurized vessel. The fuel is burned in the fluidized bed under pressure. Densities of 0.5 to 5 kg of solids per kg of flue gas are maintained in the free space (4) above the bed by means of fluidizing rates of 1 to 5 m/sec. The temperature of and load on the fluidized bed are regulated by the amount of solids returned to the bed.

Abstract: A pressurized fluidized bed burner with a pressurized container. The container is provided with an air-supply connection and accommodates a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber is provided with an air box to supply combustion air. A compressor and a preliminary air heater are accommodated in the air line leading to the pressurized container. The object is to exploit lost heat to heat the combustion air and to prevent the wall of the pressurized container from being exposed to additional thermal stress. The pressurized container has an air-extraction connection. The intake end of the preliminary air heater communicates with the air-extraction connection. Its outlet end communicates with the air box in the combustion chamber through an air line that extends through the pressurized container.

Abstract: A device for cooling hot, compressed, dust-laden gases. The device consists of an inner structure made out of cooled tubes, positioned inside a pressurized container. The device contains several straight partitions made out of tubes. The partitions parallel the longitudinal axis of the inner structure. The object is to redesign the heat-emitting surfaces of the device in order to make it more compact. At least one of the straight partitions is bent out into a nest of tubes. The nest extends through the cross-section of the inner structure. The tubes that the nest is made out of extend through and are supported by the rest of the partitions.

Abstract: A ball mill with a housing (1) that accommodates three stationary rollers (2) rolling along a rotating track (3). The rollers are held against the track by means of an upper and lower frame (9 & 10). The frames have springs (11) between them. Rods (8), each connected to a hydraulic cylinder (24) and extending out of the housing, engage the upper frame (9). To allow the rollers to be lifted off the track, a piston associated with the hydraulic cylinder can be charged at either end, the rollers are attached to the lower frame with hinges 25 and an angle-setting device, and the frames are connected by tension structures that limit the expansion of the springs.

Abstract: In order to avoid caking of bulk material when feeding from a feeder into an inlet opening of lesser cross-section, there is provided a trough with a central discharge opening located below the discharge of the feeder. Two double paddle conveyors extend in the trough towards the central discharge opening. A vertical gravity tube joins on the trough. The tube is surrounded by one or several annular channels guiding a gaseous medium. This medium forms a gaseous screen between the bulk material flow and the gravity tube.

Abstract: Grinding elements of a mill rotating inside a mill housing are sealed off relative to the mill housing by an isolating air chamber. The isolating air chamber is limited by sealing rings abutting against the mill elements and a sealing ring housing. The sealing ring housing is connected to the mill housing. An intermediate insulation is provided between the sealing ring housing and the mill housing. The mill housing is sealed off to the outside by a collar.

Abstract: A device for varying the height of a bed in a fluidized combustion chamber inside a pressurized housing. Bed material is supplied to the chamber from hoppers or returned back to the hoppers from the chamber through a supply line. The supply line connects the chamber and the hoppers. The hoppers have means of increasing or decreasing the pressure. To improve the means of both increasing and decreasing pressure in the known device and of cleaning the gas that enters into contact with the material in the hopper, each hopper contains a hot-gas filter that gas can flow through in two directions and each hopper communicates above the filter with a gas connection that can be maintained at either a higher or a lower pressure than the fluidized combustion chamber.

Abstract: A nozzle that consists of a pipe (4) with the end that extends into the treatment space surrounded by a hood (6) is employed to inject solids into a reaction space, a fluidized-bed combustion chamber for example, pneumatically. There are outlet bores (12) in the wall of the pipe (4) and below the lower edge of the hood (6). Inside the pipe (4) is an inner pipe (13) that is connected tight to pipe (14) above the outlet bores (12) and that creates in conjunction with the pipe (4) a space (14) for air to flow through. The air flowing through this intermediate space (14) and emerging from the outlet bores (12) ensures transverse intermixture of the solids inside the reaction space.