Abstract: A device for unblocking filters by means of bursts of gas. The gas is kept in a tank (7) and supplied to filter-unclogging lances by lines (8). Each line (8) accommodates several valves (11 & 12) parallel with respect to their intakes and outlets. Controls (14) time all the valves to open simultaneously but for different lengths of time. The flow of gas supplied to the simple or compound filter is accordingly divided into subsidiary streams, one or more of which is discontinued before the other or others.

Abstract: In a process for the cleaning of dust laden, preferably hot gas with the aid of ceramic filter candles (6) which are open at one end stacked above one another in levels in a raw gas space, and connected to a clean gas space, these filter candles are cleaned by way of pulsed gas, which is blown for a short period of time from the side of the clean gas space and against the direction of gas flow into the filter candles. In the raw gas space the gas to be cleaned and the dust loosened by the cleaning are guided separately so that the loosened dust is guided to the dust removal structure of the raw gas space without once again mixing with the gas to be cleaned. The process is advantageously carried out in a filter housing (10) wherein the filter candles (6) are connected to laterally spaced apart supporting collectors (7). The filter candles (6) in one level are separated from the filter candles (6) in the level thereabove by an ash removal mantle (15). (FIG.

Abstract: An arrangement for filtering dust from hot gas, in which a housing is provided with a dirty-gas zone and a clean-gas zone, as well as porous-walled hollow structures that are continuous with the exception of an outlet opening into the clean-gas zone. A filtering tube surrounds the outlet and has an area with spherically convex base that rests against a support fixed in the clean-gas zone. Between the base of the tube and the support, there is an annular adapter which has a coefficient of linear heat expansion that is approximately at least that of the tube. The annular adapter rests against the convex base of the tube, and has a flat surface that rests against a matching flat surface on the support, so that the adapter can slide horizontally over the support that is fixedly connected to the clean-gas zone. The sliding of the adapter relative to the support occurs over oppositely-lying flat parallel surfaces, one of which is on the support and the other is on the adapter.

Abstract: A burner lance for atomizing a suspension of coal in water by means of an atomizing gas. The lance consists of an inner pipe (1) that the suspension flows through, of an outer pipe (2) radially surrounding the inner pipe and leaving a gap (5) that the atomizing gas flows through, and of a nozzle (10) that narrows in the direction the suspension flows in and communicates with both the inner and the outer pipe. The outer pipe extends along the burner beyond the inner pipe and accommodates a nozzle (10) in that section. The outside diameter of the nozzle equals the inside diameter of the outer pipe. The nozzle tapers at a central angle of 35.degree. to 45.degree. and terminates in a concentric exit (11).