A solid fuel/oxygen burner including an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section, a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-sect
A solid fuel/oxygen burner including an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section, a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-sectional area in the downstream section than in the intermediary section, and a tubular fuel separator positioned within the solid fuel conduit in the downstream section, the fuel separator being bounded by an inlet plane and a outlet plane, the fuel separator dividing the fuel conduit into an inner nozzle having a cross-sectional area and an outer annular nozzle having a cross-sectional area, wherein the ratio of the outer nozzle cross-sectional area to the inner nozzle cross-sectional area measured at the outlet plane is greater than 1.
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1. A solid fuel/oxygen burner comprising: an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section;a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-
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A solid fuel/oxygen burner comprising: an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section;a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-sectional area in the downstream section than in the intermediary section;a tubular fuel separator positioned within the solid fuel conduit in the downstream section, the fuel separator being bounded by an inlet plane and a outlet plane, the fuel separator dividing the fuel conduit into an inner nozzle having a cross-sectional area and an outer annular nozzle having a cross-sectional area, wherein the ratio of the outer nozzle cross-sectional area to the inner nozzle cross-sectional area measured at the outlet plane is greater than 1; andfuel wedges positioned within the outer nozzle spanning from the tubular fuel separator to the solid fuel conduit thereby forming discharge passages between the fuel wedges, each fuel wedge having an upstream apex and expanding circumferentially to a downstream base aligned with the outlet plane of the fuel separator. 2. The burner of claim 1, further comprising an annular oxygen conduit surrounding the solid fuel conduit in at least the intermediary section. 3. The burner of claim 1, further comprising: at least one oxygen wedge extending radially outward from the annular solid fuel conduit in the downstream section, the oxygen wedge having an upstream apex and a downstream base aligned with the outlet plane of the fuel separator. 4. The burner of claim 1, further comprising: a main fuel conduit in the upstream section of the burner for flowing solid fuel and a primary transport gas to the solid fuel conduit in the intermediary section of the burner;wherein the intermediary section and the downstream section are coaxial and define a burner axis. 5. The burner of claim 4, further comprising: a tubular solid fuel and primary transport gas conduit extending into and surrounded by the main fuel conduit along the solid fuel inlet axis, the tubular solid fuel and primary transport gas conduit having an inlet for providing solid fuel and the primary transport gas to the burner; anda supplemental transport gas inlet to provide supplemental transport gas to the main fuel conduit. 6. A method of combusting solid fuel and oxygen in the burner of claim 5, comprising: providing sufficient supplemental transport gas to increase the oxygen concentration of the mixture of solid fuel and transport gas to greater than about 21 mol % and less than or equal to about 50 mol %. 7. The burner of claim 1, wherein the ratio of the outer nozzle cross-sectional area to the inner nozzle cross-sectional area measured at the outlet plane is from about 1.5 to about 6. 8. The burner of claim 1, further comprising: a fuel trip disk positioned symmetrically about the burner axis and upstream of the inlet plane of the fuel separator by a longitudinal distance, the fuel trip disk having a radial height. 9. The burner of claim 8, wherein the inner annular nozzle formed by the fuel separator has a radial height at the inlet plane, and wherein the radial height of the trip disk is from about 0.2 to about 0.5 times the radial height of the inner annular nozzle. 10. The burner of claim 1, wherein the fuel separator is generally cylindrical in shape. 11. The burner of claim 1, wherein the fuel separator includes a generally cylindrical upstream portion and a generally converging truncated conical downstream portion. 12. A method of operating a regenerative air-fuel glass melting furnace using a burner as in claim 1, the furnace having a hot air port, the method comprising: positioning at least one of the burner near an edge of the hot air port. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein the stoichiometric ratio is from about 0.05 to about 0.5. 14. A regenerative furnace comprising: a burner block having at least one firing port mounted in a sidewall of the furnace; andone or more solid fuel/oxygen burners positioned near an edge of the at least one firing port, the burner comprising: an upstream section, an intermediary section, and a downstream section;a solid fuel conduit extending through the intermediary and downstream sections for transporting a mixture of solid fuel in a transport gas, the solid fuel conduit having a greater cross-sectional area in the downstream section than in the intermediary section; anda tubular fuel separator positioned within the solid fuel conduit in the downstream section, the fuel separator being bounded by an inlet plane and a outlet plane, the fuel separator dividing the fuel conduit into an inner nozzle having a cross-sectional area and an outer annular nozzle having a cross-sectional area, wherein the ratio of the outer nozzle cross-sectional area to the inner nozzle cross-sectional area measured at the outlet plane is greater than 1; andfuel wedges positioned within the outer nozzle spanning from the tubular fuel separator to the solid fuel conduit thereby forming discharge passages between the fuel wedges, each fuel wedge having an upstream apex and expanding circumferentially to a downstream base aligned with the outlet plane of the fuel separator.
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