Patent ID: 8770155

Claim:
An industrial boiler comprising a plurality of sootblowers, each sootblower having a major axis along a line of insertion and retraction defining an outward direction toward insertion and an inward direction toward retraction, each sootblower located adjacent to a leading edge of a respective platen bank in the boiler having a major axis, the sootblower comprising: a nozzle; a lance tube for supplying a flow of pressurized fluid to the nozzle; the nozzle comprising one or more deep reaching jets for emitting fluid aligned with the major axis of the platen bank for removing slag deposits inset from the leading edge of the platen bank; the nozzle further comprising one or more edge cleaning jets for emitting fluid angled with respect to the major axis of the platen bank for removing slag deposits on the leading edge of the platen bank and positioned to balance in an opposing perpendicular direction the fluid emitted from the one or more deep reaching jets to substantially eliminate the imposition of torque on the lance tube from the simultaneous emission of the fluid through the jets.