The original goals of Zurn and Pedco in developing the Rotary Cascading Bed Combustor (RCBC) were: (1) the development, full scale proofs and commercialization of a combustion technology that could cleanly fire coal and municipal/industrial wastes and (2) the application of that technology, through cost effective and efficient systems, to the solution of critical coal utilization problems of industry and waste management problems of local and regional governments...