A method processes slag occurring in a combustion chamber. An incineration grate is formed at least in its end region that is facing the slag-removing device as a separating grate, which has openings, via which the chamber is connected to a fine-slag discharge chamber, and at least one fine fraction of the slag is ejected through the openings into the discharge chamber and discharged in a substantially dry state, and the remaining coarse fraction is fed to the slag-removing device and discharged. In this case, the average particle size of the at least one fine fraction is smaller than the average particle size of the coarse fraction. The separating grate has at least in certain regions air feeds that are distributed over its entire width and via which air is fed in a controlled manner to the slag, and the air feeds are isolated from the openings and formed separately.

A cooking apparatus, having a body defining an interior cooking chamber for cooking food, a pellet supply portion coupled to the body and including a hopper for storing fuel, a combustion chamber for burning the fuel and heating the cooking chamber, a feeding mechanism for supplying fuel from the hopper to the combustion chamber, and a removable collection receptacle located below the combustion chamber. The apparatus also includes an ash-shaker located between the collection receptacle and the combustion chamber, the ash-shaker including an external actuator that controls one or more moving elements located in the combustion chamber, wherein movement of the moving elements encourages unburned debris in the combustion chamber to fall into the receptacle, after which the collection receptacle can be removed and the unburned debris discarded.

A method and apparatus for cleaning a black liquor recovery boiler, where a furnace floor of the boiler is washed by mixing wash water in a wash water pool formed on the floor by at least one mixing device in the wash water pool, and by jetting wash water towards the floor by at least one pressure washer installed into the furnace through an opening in the furnace wall.

A biomass heating system for burning fuel in the form of pellets and/or wood chips is disclosed, the system comprising the following: a boiler with a combustion device, a heat exchanger with a plurality of boiler tubes, wherein the combustion device comprises: a combustion chamber with a rotating grate, with a primary combustion zone and with a secondary combustion zone; wherein the primary combustion zone is enclosed by a plurality of combustion chamber bricks laterally and by the rotating grate from below; wherein a plurality of secondary air nozzles is provided in the combustion chamber bricks; wherein the primary combustion zone and the secondary combustion zone are separated at the level of the secondary air nozzles; wherein the secondary combustion zone of the combustion chamber is fluidically connected to an inlet of the heat exchanger.

A rotating grate for a biomass heating system is disclosed, the grate comprising: at least one rotating grate element; at least one bearing axle, by means of which the rotating grate element is rotatably mounted; at least one cleaning device attached to one of the rotating grate elements, wherein the cleaning device comprises a mass element movable relative to the rotating grate element; wherein the cleaning device is arranged in such a way that, upon rotation of the rotating grate element, an acceleration movement of the mass element is initiated so that the cleaning device exerts a knocking effect on the rotating grate element in order to clean the rotating grate element.

A biomass heating system for firing fuel in the form of pellets and/or wood chips is disclosed, comprising: a boiler with a combustion device; a heat exchanger with an inlet and an outlet; wherein the combustion device comprises a combustion chamber with a primary combustion zone and with a secondary combustion zone provided downstream thereof; the combustion device having a rotating grate on which the fuel can be burned; the secondary combustion zone of the combustion chamber being fluidically connected to the inlet of the heat exchanger the primary combustion zone being laterally enclosed by a plurality of combustion chamber bricks.

A combustion ash handling method of handling combustion ash discharged from a combustion furnace that combusts a petroleum-based fuel includes: separating the combustion ash into a heavy component and a light component by a dry-type separation technique; feeding the light component to the combustion furnace as a fuel; and recovering the heavy component. A metal such as vanadium is separated and extracted from the heavy component of the combustion ash.

A method and apparatus for cleaning a black liquor recovery boiler, where a furnace floor of the boiler is washed by mixing wash water in a wash water pool formed on the floor by at least one mixing device in the wash water pool, and by jetting wash water towards the floor by at least one pressure washer installed into the furnace through an opening in the furnace wall.

In this application is disclosed a novel equipment for solid waste treatment in general, whose state of the art foresees various types of reactors for thermal processing of solid waste, it is constituted by a reactor that has the combustion processed under a thermal cyclone effect produced by air nozzles.

A combustion/pyrolization system comprising a combustion/pyrolization chamber supported by the base frame, and a perforated grate forms a bottom surface of the combustion/pyrolization chamber and facilitates passage of char and boichar therethrough. The combustion/pyrolization chamber is open along at a top and an air manifold supplies a first source of combustion air across the top of the combustion/pyrolization chamber to form an air curtain. A char collection/transfer chamber is located below the perforated grate for collecting at least the char and boichar that passes therethrough, and a conveying mechanism transfers the char and boichar out of the combustion/pyrolization system for collection and use. An air plenum chamber cools the char collection/transfer chamber such that the supplied secondary air becomes heated, and the heated secondary air flows into the char collection/transfer chamber and through the perforated grate into the combustion/pyrolization chamber to provide secondary combustion air.