An assembly for cleaning a smelt spout includes a cleaning head, a drive rod connected with the cleaning head, and a pneumatic or other drive connected to selectively extend or retract the drive rod. The drive rod may be connected with the cleaning head by a pivotal connection. The cleaning head may be bifurcated. The cleaning head may include a leading edge configured to engage and clean a spout opening from which smelt from a chemical reduction furnace flows to the spout. The assembly may further include a pivot point and, as the drive selectively extends the drive rod, torque about the pivot point produced by the cleaning head and an extending portion of the drive rod rotates the cleaning head downward to engage a smelt spout.

An assembly for cleaning a smelt spout includes a cleaning head, a drive rod connected with the cleaning head, and a pneumatic or other drive connected to selectively extend or retract the drive rod. The drive rod may be connected with the cleaning head by a pivotal connection. The cleaning head may be bifurcated. The cleaning head may include a leading edge configured to engage and clean a spout opening from which smelt from a chemical reduction furnace flows to the spout. The assembly may further include a pivot point and, as the drive selectively extends the drive rod, torque about the pivot point produced by the cleaning head and an extending portion of the drive rod rotates the cleaning head downward to engage a smelt spout.

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 and the primary combustion zone being laterally enclosed by a plurality of combustion chamber bricks.

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system that comprises an electric motor, an electric motor housing, a cable and a heat shield. the electric motor housing substantially surrounds the electric motor with the exception of a protruding shaft of the electric motor. The cable is coupled to the electric motor, the cable is constructed to rotate within a stovepipe or chimney.

Disclosed is a corrosion-resistant air preheater capable of slowing down dust deposit. The air preheater comprises a shell, an air inlet is fixedly formed in the side wall of the shell, an air outlet is fixedly formed in the side, away from the air inlet, of the shell, a flue gas through pipe is fixedly arranged on the inner side wall of the shell, rotating assemblies are arranged on the outer side wall of the flue gas through pipe, a flue gas inlet box is fixedly arranged at the top of the shell. According to the corrosion-resistant air preheater, an air pressure plate is pushed through the flue gas pressure intensity, and then the air pressure plate can descend. After the air pressure plate descends, rotating blades can rotate under the flowing effect of flue gas, then a movable rod rotates, and a scraping plate is further enabled to rotate.

In some aspects, a computer-implemented method of reducing a rate of fouling in a recovery boiler system is provided. A computing device receives boiler operating information for a period of time. The boiler operating information includes boiler operating parameters and a rate of fouling for the period of time. The boiler operating parameters include one or more boiler input parameters. The computing device performs a regression analysis to determine at least one correlation between the boiler operating parameters and the rate of fouling. The computing device causes at least one boiler input parameter to be adjusted based on the at least one correlation to minimize the rate of fouling. In some aspects, a system configured to perform such a method is provided. In some aspects, a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that cause a computing device to perform such a method is provided.

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 furnace monitoring device includes an imaging unit to capture an image of combustion ash adhering to a monitoring position in a furnace, an evaluation unit to evaluate a deposition state of combustion ash on the basis of a monitoring image which is output from the imaging unit, and an alert unit to output an alert for the combustion ash on the basis of a result of evaluation from the evaluation unit.

A steam soot blowing device is provided, including: a steam sootblower, a first pipe communicating with the steam sootblower; and nozzle assemblies communicating with the first pipe, including a first nozzle assembly and a second nozzle assembly, wherein the first nozzle assembly includes a throttle pipe with one end communicating with the first pipe, and a sprayer communicating with the other end of the throttle pipe, and diameter of an inlet of the sprayer is smaller than diameter of an outlet thereof; the second nozzle assembly includes a distribution pipe communicating with the first pipe and at least one nozzle communicating with the distribution pipe, wherein steam jet velocity at the outlet of the sprayer is greatly smaller than steam jet velocity at an outlet of the nozzle.

A steam soot blowing device is provided, including: a steam sootblower, a first pipe communicating with the steam sootblower; and nozzle assemblies communicating with the first pipe, including a first nozzle assembly and a second nozzle assembly, wherein the first nozzle assembly includes a throttle pipe with one end communicating with the first pipe, and a sprayer communicating with the other end of the throttle pipe, and diameter of an inlet of the sprayer is smaller than diameter of an outlet thereof; the second nozzle assembly includes a distribution pipe communicating with the first pipe and at least one nozzle communicating with the distribution pipe, wherein steam jet velocity at the outlet of the sprayer is greatly smaller than steam jet velocity at an outlet of the nozzle.