摘要 |
Water is heated to an elevated temperature or steam is produced, by passing water through heating coils which are embedded in a fluidized bed of inert particles. The heat for the system is produced by combustion of a material such as propane, methane or the like in a lower zone of the fluidized bed. The combustion is stabilized by intermixing small particles and large particles in the lower zone. The large particles are not fluidized but are merely suspended in the upflowing fluid, and the small particles are fluidized in the interstices of the large, relatively stationary particles.
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