Abstract: A boiler scale collecting device enables collecting and recovery of most boiler scale particulates (p) in a steam flow line (f) in a steam pipe (02) extending from a power generation steam boiler to an inlet (01′) of a power generation steam turbine (01). The steam pipe (02), of constant inner diameter (d), extends from the boiler side to the inlet (01′) of the steam turbine (01), and turns at direction turning portion (e) from a vertical steam pipe (02′) to a lateral steam pipe (02″) near the inlet (01″) of the steam turbine (01). The vertical steam pipe (02′) is elongated beyond the direction turning portion (e) to form an elongated portion (02′a) having a lower end (02″a). The direction turning portion (e), including the vertical steam pipe (02′) and the lateral steam pipe (02″), and the elongated portion (02′a) are made in an integral unit of forged steel.

Abstract: A pulverized fuel combustion burner includes a pulverized fuel and air mixture conduit. A pulverized fuel rich/lean separator is disposed at the axial center of the conduit so that a high concentration mixture is formed at an outer peripheral portion of the conduit and a low concentration mixture is formed at a central portion of the conduit. The pulverized fuel rich/lean separator has a cross-sectional shape which gradually enlarges in the flow direction at an angle to the flow direction. It becomes parallel to the flow direction downstream of the enlarging portion, and terminates in a flat surface that is perpendicular to the axis of the separator. A passage extends through the pulverized fuel rich/lean separator along the axis.

Abstract: A burner for combustion of a pulverized coal mixture having two kinds of rich and lean concentration has, a height of a burner panel reduced and the overall burner simplified. A rich/lean separator (10, 20, 30) is provided within a pulverized coal conduit (2) so that a high concentration mixture is formed in an outer peripheral portion and a low concentration mixture is formed in a central portion within a single pulverized coal conduit. Thus, a rich mixture burner and a lean mixture burner, which have been conventionally provided separately, may be formed into a single burner. Recirculation of air is accelerated by a cutaway slit (20d, 30d) provided in a central portion of the rich/lean separator to make the air flow rate distribution uniform in a pulverized coal nozzle. Also, a duct and an air blow box for the combustion air to be supplied to the pulverized coal flame are not integrally formed continuous in the height direction, but are divided into a plurality of discontinuous units.

Abstract: A burner for combustion of a pulverized coal mixture having two kinds of rich and lean concentration has a height of a burner panel reduced and the overall burner simplified. A rich/lean separator (10, 20, 30) is provided within a pulverized coal conduit (2) so that a high concentration mixture is formed in an outer peripheral portion and a low concentration mixture is formed in a central portion within a single pulverized coal conduit. Thus, a rich mixture burner and a lean mixture burner, which have been conventionally provided separately, may be formed into a single burner. Recirculation of air is accelerated by a cutaway slit (20d, 30d) provided in a central portion of the rich/lean separator to make the air flow rate distribution uniform in a pulverized coal nozzle. Also, a duct and an air blow box for the combustion air to be supplied to the pulverized coal flame are not integrally formed continuous in the height direction, but are divided into a plurality of discontinuous units.

Abstract: A headbox apparatus is disclosed for ejecting stock onto a forming wire of a papermaking machine. The apparatus includes a header for the flow therethrough of the stock. The header finds an inlet and an outlet, the outlet having an upstream and a downstream end. The header is tapered in a cross-machine direction from the upstream end towards the downstream end such that the flow of stock through the outlet remains substantially constant from the upstream to the downstream end. A distributor is disposed immediately downstream relative to the outlet and in fluid communication therewith. The distributor includes a plurality of distributor tubes which are disposed parallel relative to each other. Each of the tubes has an upstream extremity such that the stock flows from the outlet through each of the upstream extremities. Each of the extremities defines an upstream edge and a downstream edge such that for each tube, the upstream edge is nearer than the downstream edge to the upstream end of the outlet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of returning geothermal gases discharged from geothermal plants to the underground together with waste water through a return well, characterized in that the apparent velocity of waste water V.sub.eo relative to the return well is equal to or more than 1 m/s and the range of the apparent velocity of waste water V.sub.eo and of an apparent velocity of the geothermal gases V.sub.go is regulated to satisfy the following equation:V.sub.go <1.33V.sub.eo -0.41.