Claims
- 1. In a pulverized coal-fired furnace equipped with a plurality of individual burners wherein each of the burners provide a passageway through which a mixture of pulverized coal and primary air passes into the furnace, a method of operating at least one of said burners, comprising:
- a. during operation of the furnace at normal loads, discharging the mixture of pulverized coal and primary air passing through said burner into the furnace as a single stream coal-air stream;
- b. during operation of the furnace at low loads, splitting the mixture of pulverized coal and primary air discharging from said burner into a first and second coal-air substream;
- c. turning at least one of said substreams away from the other so as to extablish a divergent angular relationship between said first and second coal-air substreams; and
- d. directing said first and second coal-air substreams into the furnace in said divergent angular relationship to each other.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 270,687, filed June 4, 1981, abandoned which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 175,093, filed Aug. 4, 1980, now abandoned which was a division of application Ser. No. 29,605, filed Apr. 13, 1979, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 4,252,069.
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