Fluidized-bed combustion of anthracite refuse
Abstract
A total of five types of anthracite refuse material with widely different characteristics were successfully burned in the 0.46m (18-inch) diameter atmospheric pressure fluidized-bed combustor at the Morgantown Energy Research Center of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Combustion characteristics of these anthracite refuse materials as well as engineering data were investigated for a wide range of operating conditions. Values of carbon combustion efficiency, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, heat transfer and heat release rates are presented. Results of this systematic study of the fluidized-bed combustion of anthracite refuse material indicate that a substantial amount of heating value contained in this rejected material can be recovered. This application of anthracite refuse represents a potential source of energy for a region of the country which would benefit from such a new source to replace increased oil use which has accompanied the decrease in anthracite coal mining.
- Publication:
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12th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977iece.conf..772M
- Keywords:
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- Anthracite;
- Combustion Efficiency;
- Energy Conservation;
- Fluidized Bed Processors;
- Heat Of Combustion;
- Waste Utilization;
- Carbon;
- Energy Technology;
- Gas Evolution;
- Industrial Wastes;
- Nitrogen Oxides;
- Solid Wastes;
- Sulfur Dioxides;
- Energy Production and Conversion