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BED MOISTURE CONTENT [4 records]

Record 1 2017-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
CONT

Fluidized bed combustion systems use a heated bed of sand-like material suspended(fluidized) within a rising column of air to burn many types and classes of fuel. This technique results in a vast improvement in combustion efficiency of high moisture content fuels, and is adaptable to a variety of "waste type" fuels. The scrubbing action of the bed material on the fuel particle enhances the combustion process by stripping away the carbon dioxide and char layers that normally form around the fuel particle. This allows oxygen to reach the combustible material much more readily and increases the rate and efficiency of the combustion process.

CONT

... the Degrémont-ECI (Continuous Ion Exchange) process ... uses two types of apparatus generally combined in a single installation: The compacted bed system ... The fluidized bed system in which the resin is held in suspension in an upward flow of liquid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
CONT

[Le] procédé d'Échange Continu d'Ions (E.C.I.) Degrémont [...] met en œuvre deux sortes de dispositifs qui sont le plus souvent associés dans une même installation : Le système à lit compacté [...] Le système à lit fluidisé dans lequel la résine est maintenue en suspension dans le courant ascendant de liquide.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A type of biomass combustion burner in which a pile of fuel burns on the grates.

OBS

Primary combustion air comes from above the grates, not below.

CONT

The boilers are fed wood fuel from the main fuel bin located adjacent to the boiler house. The boilers are the "pile burner" type, which burn wood in a large pile on the floor of a refractory lined furnace box. Combustion efficiency with this type of boiler is generally low but pile burners are simple and therefore relatively inexpensive. Low combustion efficiency also means that emissions such as particulates and carbon monoxide are relatively high. One notable advantage to these systems is that high moisture content fuels can be burned as well as "dirty" fuels containing debris.

CONT

Pile burner : Boilers incorporating a pile burning design find applications where the anticipated wood fuel has a high(up to 65%) relative moisture content, as is found in whole green tree chips, bark, and green mill residue. Grates serve to support the fuel, and underfire air flowing up through the grates provides oxygen for combustion, cools the grates, promotes turbulence in the fuel bed, and dries the fuel. The most common form of pile burning is the Dutch oven, which was used almost exclusively during the early part of the century(Guinn and Turner 1990).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le combustible de bois sec est mélangé à de la sciure de bois vert afin de produire un mélange de combustible qui convienne aux brûleurs de biomasse [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industries - General
  • Food Industries
  • Freeze-Drying
CONT

The Fluidized Bed Dryer is a dryer with high efficiency, fluidizing powder with gas. It is suitable to dry uniformly the processed material with comparatively high moisture content to low moisture content.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries - Généralités
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Lyophilisation

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

Total moisture (percent) in a seam of coal before working.

OBS

Définition donnée par le bureau de traduction, Scientifique centrale.

CONT

Coals vary a great deal in their tendency to take up oxygen. In general... it is higher for coals of high bed moisture content, high oxygen content and high volatile content, all of which characterize low rank coals...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
CONT

Analyse des charbons. On distingue: - l'analyse élémentaire [...] - l'analyse immédiate [...] [qui] précise la teneur en humidité, la teneur en cendres, l'indice de matières volatiles, le carbone fixe résidu de l'essai de distillation [...]

Spanish

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