Scale-up of sonic energy for a major industrial application: ash conditioning for power utilities that use fluidized bed combustion

The paper describes a new, powerful, patented piece of sonic equipment that operates in the low sonic frequency range, at 104 Hz, with nominal power of 75 kW. It has been tested for both physical and chemical sonic effects. A large-scale industrial application is described — the conditioning and pacification of ash from utility coal combustion by fluidized bed combustion. A variety of additional applications is suggested, most of which have been briefly tested.