COLUMBIA — MU's new wood-burning boiler, supplied by Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group Inc., is a bubbling fluidized bed boiler. Gas is piped in to ignite a boiling bed of sand to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, which in turn ignites the wood, which is fed into the boiler through gravity.
A look inside MU's new biomass boiler
Monday, October 17, 2011 | 1:30 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:56 p.m. CDT, Monday, October 17, 2011
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