Development of Coal-Feeding Systems at the Morgantown Energy Research Center

摘要

The Morgantown Energy Research Center (MERC) has developed a variety of systems since 1945 for feeding crushed and pulverized coal into coal conversion reactor vessels. This paper describes their part and current work on these systems including pneumatic methods for feeding pulverized coal, slurry feeders, and coal pumps, methods for steam pickup, and a method for drying a water-coal slurry in a steam-fluidized bed subsequent to feeding the coal into a reactor vessel. (ERA citation 02:055713)