Abstract:
A method is disclosed for intensifying the cooling of hot granular material exiting from a series of cooler tubes mounted in planetary fashion around a rotary drum by introducing a cooling liquid into the cooler tubes in a manner such that the liquid contacts the hot granular material as it passes therethrough and the heat of evaporation of the liquid intensifies the cooling of the material. A planetary cooler system for cooling material exiting from such cooler tubes is also disclosed in which means is provided for introducing cooling liquid preferably in the form of a spray so as to contact the material exiting from the cooler tube and intensify the cooling of the granular material as it passes through the cooler tubes.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus is disclosed for manufacturing cement clinker in a rotary kiln system wherein the smoke gas velocity through the rotary kiln is advantageously increased to cause a quantity of pulverulent material to be entrained in the smoke gases which is significantly larger than heretofore considered desirable.
Abstract:
In a system for the manufacture of cement having a preheater for preheating raw material fed to a heated rotary kiln, a method is disclosed for removing caked raw material from internal wall areas of the preheater which are likely to build up such caked material. The method relates to suspending cement clinker particles in a gas moving at a high velocity and causing the gas and particles to impinge upon the wall areas which are normally subject to caking at sufficient velocity to dislodge the caking.
Abstract:
A rotary kiln is disclosed in which a specially constructed deflector is positioned within each cooler tube. Each deflector is adapted to assist the conveyance of kiln product from the kiln through the cooler tubes.
Abstract:
In the manufacture of cement clinker from cement raw materials containing an undesirably high amount of alkalis, a rotary kiln having a preheater for the raw materials is employed. A portion of the effluent gases from the kiln is caused to bypass the preheater as a separate divisional flow. Water is atomized into this flow in such amounts that substantially all of the alkalis entrained therein in the form of solids, liquid or vapor are struck by the atomized fine drops of water. All of the water is vaporized in the hot flow of gas so that a substantial part of the alkalis is precipitated in the form of a fine dry powder, and the gas is simultaneously cooled.
Abstract:
A conveyor is disclosed for granular or pulverulent materials which comprises a vertically disposed screw elevator rotatable within a casing and a specially constructed receptacle at the inlet end of the casing for receiving material deposited when the direction of rotation of screw is reversed to free compacted material in the casing.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDRAULIC CEMENT IS DISCLOSED IN WHICH RAW MATERIALS ARE FED DRY TO A CEMENT KILN IN THE CORRECT PROPORTIONS TO FORM CEMENT CLINKER, THE RAW MATERIALS ARE BURNT, AT LEAST THE LAST STAGE OF THE BURNING BEING AT SUCH A HIGH TEMPERATURE THAT THE BURNT PRODUCT IS MOLTEN, THE PRODUCT IS TAPPED FROM THE KILN IN THE FORM OF AT LEAST ONE MOLTEN STREAM, IS CONVERTED WITH RAPID COOLING INTO THE FORM OF FIBERS OF UNIFORM THICKNESS AND THE FIBERS ARE SUBEQUENTLY BROKEN UP INTO CEMENT OF THE DESIRED FINENESS.
Abstract:
Apparatus for feeding pulverulent or granular material, especially such material which is of a fluidized nature, wherein the material is discharged from the feeding apparatus at approximately a constant rate, as is important in the feeding of cement raw material or raw meal to a rotary kiln in the manufacture of cement.