Internal-combustion engines – Solid fuel
Patent
1984-10-19
1985-12-17
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Internal-combustion engines
Solid fuel
110261, 431 11, F02B 4502
Patent
active
045586640
ABSTRACT:
A method and device for obtaining, upon injection, flash evaporation of a liquid in a slurry fuel to aid in ignition and combustion. The device is particularly beneficial for use of coal-water slurry fuels in internal combustion engines such as diesel engines and gas turbines, and in external combustion devices such as boilers and furnaces. The slurry fuel is heated under pressure to near critical temperature in an injector accumulator, where the pressure is sufficiently high to prevent boiling. After injection into a combustion chamber, the water temperature will be well above boiling point at a reduced pressure in the combustion chamber, and flash boiling will preferentially take place at solid-liquid surfaces, resulting in the shattering of water droplets and the subsequent separation of the water from coal particles. This prevents the agglomeration of the coal particles during the subsequent ignition and combustion process, and reduces the energy required to evaporate the water and to heat the coal particles to ignition temperature. The overall effect will be to accelerate the ignition and combustion rates, and to reduce the size of the ash particles formed from the coal.
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Carnahan L. E.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Gaither Roger S.
Hightower Judson R.
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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