A rope is used as a combustible material in a heating system, the rope comprising or consisting of fibrous plant material. Also, a method of operating a heating system comprises feeding a combustible material to a combustion chamber of the heating system, the combustible material being a rope of fibrous plant material.

A solid fuel boiler burner has a rotary combustion chamber mounted in casing. The casing is connected by hooks to a gearwheel. The gearwheel is mounted rotationally between a pair of cage bearings. The gearwheel and a compensating and pressure plate have openings for a inflow of air from a blower chamber through an adjustable screen. The adjustable screen controls a ratio of primary to secondary air. A worm feeder delivers fuel to the combustion chamber through an outlet thereof. The worm feeder has an axially placed aeration duct therein.

The invention provides a use of a rope as a combustible material in a heating system, said rope comprising or consisting of fibrous plant material. The invention also provides a method of operating a heating system, comprising feeding a combustible material to a combustion chamber of the heating system, said combustible material being a rope of fibrous plant material.

A combustion apparatus includes a burner having a sheet-metal combustion plate which covers an open surface of a burner body; and a combustion box having a connection flange part to be coupled to a body flange part enclosing the open surface of the burner body, and is equipped with a cooling means for cooling the combustion box, an arrangement is made that overheating of the burner body due to heat transmission from the combustion plate can be prevented, even without enhancing thermal insulation performance of a packing to be interposed between a combustion plate flange part and the body flange part. The connection flange part is kept in direct contact with the combustion plate flange part and, coupled to the body flange part. The packing is provided with: a combustion plate seal part to be pressed under pressure against the combustion plate flange part; and a combustion box seal.

A combustion apparatus includes a burner having a sheet-metal combustion plate which covers an open surface of a burner body; and a combustion box having a connection flange part to be coupled to a body flange part enclosing the open surface of the burner body, and is equipped with a cooling means for cooling the combustion box, an arrangement is made that overheating of the burner body due to heat transmission from the combustion plate can be prevented, even without enhancing thermal insulation performance of a packing to be interposed between a combustion plate flange part and the body flange part. The connection flange part is kept in direct contact with the combustion plate flange part and, coupled to the body flange part. The packing is provided with: a combustion plate seal part to be pressed under pressure against the combustion plate flange part; and a combustion box seal.

Disclosed is a solid fuel boiler burner, used in central heating boilers for building structures and in other heat exchangers. The solid fuel boiler burner has a rotary combustion chamber mounted in the casing, which is equipped with aeration ducts and this unit is connected by hooks with a gear wheel which is mounted rotationally between two cage bearings. The gear wheel and the compensating and pressure plate have openings for the inflow of air from the blower chamber through an adjustable screen which controls the ratio of primary to secondary air injected into the ducts. Moreover, the worm fuel feeder has an axially placed aeration duct with outlet in the combustion chamber.