Pellet air lock for use in transporting wood pellets as fuel to boilers or stoker furnace, has alternate volume for pellets defined beside each slide gate valve or hollow cylinder

摘要

The air lock has slide gate valves and hollow cylinders (12) for opening or closing air lock volumes (26). An alternate volume (29) beside the valve or cylinder and outside the air lock volume gathers the remaining pellets when the valve or cylinder shuts the air lock volume.