Abstract: A coal supply gun assembly for a fluidized bed combustor which includes heat exchange elements extending above the bed's distributor plate assembly and in which the gun's nozzles are disposed relative to the heat exchange elements to only discharge granular coal material between adjacent heat exchange elements and in a path which is substantially equidistant from adjacent heat exchange elements.

Abstract: A fluidized bed combustor comprises a housing having a chamber therein with a top having a discharge for the gases which are generated in the chamber and a bottom with a discharge for heated fluid. An assembly is arranged in the lower portion of the chamber and the assembly includes a lower plate which is mounted on a support flange of the housing so that it is spaced from the bottom of the chamber and defines a fluid plenum between it and the bottom of the chamber for the discharge of heated fluid. The assembly includes a heat exchanger inlet plenum having tubes therethrough for the passage of fluidizer air and a windbox above the heat exchanger plenum which has a distributor plate top wall. A portion of the chamber above the top wall defines a fluidized bed.

Abstract: A pressurized, fluidized bed combustor including a housing having a combustor chamber therein with a distributor plate closing the lower portion of the housing and arranged above a fluidizer windbox, which, in turn, is arranged above a heat exchanger inlet plenum which is mounted above a bottom of the combustor. A coal gun is provided for discharging coal into the fluidized bed, and it comprises an outer guide tube which extends from a spaced location above the distributor plate downwardly through the bottom of the combustor chamber and it includes a portion which extends exteriorly of the combustor chamber. This exterior portion carries a ball valve which has a passage therethrough which makes it possible to insert a coal supply pipe upwardly in the interior of the outer guide pipe and through the passage of the ball valve up to substantially the top of the outer pipe at a location above the distributor plate within the reaction bed.