Design and operation of the double-cylinder rotary ash cooler for large CFB boilers

The bottom ash cooler is an important auxiliary equipment of a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler. As the CFB boiler technology develops, the rotary ash coolers have partially substituted the fluidized bed bottom ash coolers in the industrial practice due to its excellent reliability. To meet the increased output requirement, a double-cylinder rotary ash cooler, rather than the conventional single-cylinder one, was proposed in the present...