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Abstract

A furnace of a pulverized coal firing boiler includes a coutant bottom and walls intersecting with the coutant bottom and extending generally vertically therefrom to enclose and define an interior combustion chamber. A first windbox disposed in a corner of the combustion chamber includes therein a vertical array of consecutively spaced coal compartments. A coal nozzle of the lowermost coal compartment of the vertical array is disposed at least ten feet from the intersection of the walls with the coutant bottom. A second coal nozzle is disposed within a second adjacent coal compartment at a first vertical spacing to the first coal nozzle; a third coal nozzle is disposed within a third adjacent coal compartment at a second vertical spacing to the second coal nozzle; and a fourth coal nozzle is disposed within a fourth adjacent coal compartment at a third vertical spacing to the second coal nozzle. The first vertical spacing is less than the second vertical spacing, and the second vertical spacing is less than the third vertical spacing. A second windbox also is disposed below the first windbox and includes a coal nozzle disposed therein that is located within ten feet of the intersection of the walls and the coutant bottom.

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