LCP: Pardalos-Rosen Mixed Integer Formulation.

A grateless furnace has a combustion chamber, means to introduce solid fuel into the combustion chamber and to permit said fuel to form a fire bed in the bottom thereof, the combustion chamber being of such configuration that slag formed during combustion of the fuel accumulates under the influence of gravity, at a low part of the bottom of the combustion chamber, said low part having an opening through which said slag may pass for removal from the furnace. The bottom of the chamber may be V-shaped.