A heating apparatus for the combustion of highly variable biofuel feed stocks is generally provided. The apparatus generally includes a combustion chamber or burn box adapted to receive a regulated feed of biomass. The burn box includes a grate for receipt of a distributed mass of the regulated feed, and further includes an oscillating blade adjacent to the grate for agitation of the distributed mass of the regulated feed received thereby. The combustion apparatus for the production of thermal energy from a biofuel of the subject invention is preferably and further characterized by means for producing the distributed mass of the regulated feed of biofuel, and/or a burn box incorporating an oxygen manifold assembly adjacent to the grate.
申请公布号
WO2008049059(A3)
申请公布日期
2008.06.19
申请号
WO2007US81774
申请日期
2007.10.18
申请人
HESTIA HEATING PRODUCTS, INC.;NELSON, ERIC W.;MAST, MARION L.