| Abstract: | The work described relates to the development of a coal-fired fluidized bed furnace for the generation of hot gases for industrial heating processes. Following a programme of coal model studies of the internal solids circulation rates between adjacent beds, a furnace test facility was developed in the form of two interconnected fluidized beds. One bed is operated as a partial gasifier/pyrolyser and the other as a char combustor. The gas produced by pyrolysis is mixed above the bed with the oxygen-rich gas from the char combustor and burns to give hot gas at temperatures of up to 1600°C. The use of low ash washed singles grade coal (13–25 mm size range) gives an overall combustion efficiency better than 98 per cent. |
