Refuse burning rate

The fluidized bed reactor greatly increases the burning rate of the refuse for three basic reasons ... 

Furnaces other than those burning solid fuel at a rate of greater than one ton per hour - the following classes, used for any purpose other than the incineration of refuse ... 

An important design assumption was that refuse would be collected 5 days a week for 52 weeks a year (260 days a year) but because of maintenance and downtime, refuse could be burned only 230 days a year. It was also assumed that units could only burn refuse at 90 o of their rated design capacity. Three basic cases were considered plants with rated capacities of 18.2, 45.5, and 90.9 metric tons/day, respectively. Table II details the actual daily and annual capacities of the installations. The small unit was evaluated for one- and two-shift per day operation with periodic ash removal whereas the larger plants were assumed to operate three shifts per day for five days a week with continuous ash removal. 

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