摘要:
A process and apparatus for manufacturing cement clinker in which pellets of raw material containing the necessary components for manufacturing the clinker are introduced into an apparatus where the pellets flow under gravity, successively through a preheating zone, a clinkering zone using a fluidized bed and a cooling zone. The pellets contain an amount of comminuted carbon determined so that its combustion produces an amount of heat within each pellet sufficient to carry out decarbonation of the material, taking into account the heat introduced by the hot gases passing upwardly through the apparatus. Decarbonation is completed at the base of the preheating zone and the pellets enter the clinkering zone at a temperature which is close to the clinkering temperature. Additional heat is supplied through burners within the clinkering zone.
摘要:
An indirectly fired vertical shaft furnace suitable for use as a volatilizing furnace for recovering metals from their ores, a crop drying or roasting furnace or a heating furnace is comprised of two concentric cylindrical metal shells each of which is closed at the upper end. The outer shell is completely lined with a lightweight insulating material and the lower end of the shell is connected to the upper end of an annular fire chamber having an upwardly open U-shaped cross-section cast from firebrick material. Two tangentially directed burners extend into the chamber to produce a swirling action of the hot gases in the heating chamber between the two cylindrical members. Conduits are provided through the top walls of both cylindrical member for withdrawing the material from the bottom of the central chamber. A vapor collector is coaxially located within the central chamber and has spirally arranged apertures for collecting vapors under transverse channels extending radially outwardly from the conduit across the central chamber above each of the apertures. Additional conduits are provided at the bottom of the central chamber for introducing air into the central chamber and collector conduit and additional conduits are provided at the top of the central chamber for removing vapors from the central chamber and the collecting conduit.
摘要:
Conventional cupola apparatus and its operation are modified by suppressing the entrance of external air to the cupola and replacing the nitrogen component of the air injected into the conventional cupola with a recycled fraction of the cupola gas consisting substantially of CO and CO.sub.2 withdrawn from the cupola at a point above the melting zone and replacing the oxygen component of the air with externally supplied substantially pure oxygen. The remaining fraction of the cupola gas is exhausted from the cupola system. When the cupola is thusly operated on a steady state basis, a balance is maintained so that the atomic amount of the oxygen exhausted from the system is equal to the atomic amount of the injected oxygen.
摘要:
An electric furnace has an inlet opening for introduction of starting materials in the upper region thereof. A pre-melting vessel is arranged above the furnace and has a discharge opening above and in communication with the inlet opening of the furnace. The bottom portion of the furnace is formed with a depression in which the starting material forms a body after its introduction through the inlet opening and is heat-treated so as to obtain slag and steel. The furnace is provided at its sides with a pair of mounting members each having a cam surface of part-circular configuration having a center on an axis which extends substantially horizontally and is located at the inlet opening of the furnace. A plurality of rollers engages the cam surfaces, the rollers being mounted on a support for rotation about their axes. An interchangeable sleeve-shaped element bounds the inlet opening and may be funnel-shaped and/or diverge in the downward direction, the axis extending through the narrowest region of the sleeve-shaped element. Due to this mounting of the furnace, and due to the shape of the sleeve-shaped element, the starting materials are continuously introduced through the inlet opening regardless of the tilted position of the furnace. The furnace further includes outlet openings for slag and steel which may be tapped in the tilted positions of the furnace.
摘要:
A process and apparatus for burning limestone to produce calcined lime in which limestone is burned continuously in a vertical kiln provided with a plurality of fuel injectors which permit pulsed introduction of fuel so as to ensure a lamellar flow of fuel through the kiln and a controlled release of heat.
摘要:
A process for the firing and sintering of granular material in a gas or oil heated shaft furnace is disclosed in which the material, fed from the top of the furnace passes downwards successively through an entry zone, a preheating zone, a firing zone in which burners are disposed around the furnace wall, and a cooling zone, and in which the feeding of the material at the top of the furnace is so effected that a central depression is maintained in the upper surface of the material in the entry zone, said surface sloping downwardly from the periphery of the entry zone into the central depression, so that segregation of the material occurs automatically, the coarser pieces of material rolling into the central depression, whereby a column of the coarser material is maintained along the vertical axis of the furnace. The feeding of the material at the top of the furnace is effected by means of a charging bell over which the material to be fed to the furnace is discharged, the material being guided by the charging bell to the periphery of the entry zone and then rolling into the central depression below the charging bell.
摘要:
An apparatus for manufacturing ceramically bonded shaped bodies from granulates of inflatable mineral materials, particularly clay, which comprises a combustion chamber including two combustion chamber regions tapered down in opposite directions. A fire box is provided which has a bottom grate and is adapted to be filled with granulates of inflatable material. A mount is arranged for the fire box in substantially the plane of the joint largest cross-section of the combustion chamber and movable through the latter. A conduit system is connected to both ends of the burning chamber for guiding fuel - and reaction - gases in a circuit. At least one burner device is disposed in the circuit. A reversing device for reversing the flow of the gases through the combustion chamber is provided. The mount comprises a pocketshaped enlargement open to the axis of the chamber for reception of the fire box in the combustion chamber. The fire box engages the enlargement with an annular outer holding - and guide frame, the latter being covered in the pocket-shaped enlargement against the effect of the heat - and reaction - gases and being connected with a divided heat-shield device limiting laterally the filling space of the fire box by arms limiting the heat flow.
摘要:
Solids such as dolomite or magnesia are continuously roasted in a vertical furnace provided with an axial tube to cause the heating flame to pass through the center of the solids, the heating being effected by the combustion of dry fuel oil vapors preheated to 300* to 650* C.
摘要:
AN APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WHITE PORTLAND CEMENT CLINKER ARE DISCLOSED. THE APPARATUS HAS A REACTOR PROVIDED WITH A REACTOR BED ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND PROCESS WHITE PORTLAND CEMENT CLINKER RAW MATERIAL. THE REACTOR HAS A HEATING AND DRYING ZONE FOR REMOVING THE WATER FROM THE RAW MATERIAL, A CALCINING ADJACENT THE HEATING AND DRYING ZONE FOR CALCINING THE CALCAREOUS PORTION OF RAW MATERIAL, A REACTION ZONE ADJACENT THE CALCINING ZONE FOR CLINKERING THE RAW MATERIAL, A GAS DISTRIBUTION ZONE ADJACENT THE REACTION ZONE FOR RECEIVING A HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID HAVING A PRESSURE SUFFICIENT TO TRAVERSE THE REACTION ZONE, THE CALCINING ZONE AND THE HEATING AND DRYING ZONE WITH A RESIDUAL REMAINING PRESSURE, AND A GAS SEAL ZONE ADJACENT THE GAS DISTRIBUTION ZONE. A DIVIDER IN THE GAS SEAL ZONE SPLIT THE FLOW OF THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL INTO TWO CHANNELS. EACH CHANNEL HAS A CONSTRICTED PASSAGE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FLOW OF THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL TO PRODUCE A PRESSURE DROP THROUGH THE GAS SEAL ZONE GREATER THAN THE PRESSURE IN THE HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID. A COOLING ZONE OF THE REACTOR ADJACENT THE GAS SEALING ZONE COOLS THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL. A COOLING PLENUM IN THE COOLING ZONE IS CONNECTED TO THE HEATING AND DRYING ZONE AND HAS A FIRST LOUVER WHICH DEFINES WITH AN EXIT LOUVER THE COOLING ZONE, THUS RETAINING THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL IN THE COOLING ZONE WHILE EMITTING THE HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID FROM SUCH COOLING ZONE. A DISCHARGE MEANS IN DISCHARGE ZONE OF THE REACTOR DISCHARGES THE SINTERED MATERIAL WHILE SEALING THE DISCHARGE ZONE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. THE METHOD INCLUDES THE STEPS OF: (A) RECEIVING THE RAW MATERIAL IN THE REACTOR BED OF THE REACTOR, (B) PASSING THE RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A HEATING AND DRYING ZONE TO REMOVE THE WATER FROM THE RAW MATERIAL, (C) PASSING THE DRIED RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A CALCINING ZONE ADJACENT THE HEATING AND DRYING ZONE TO CALCINE THE CALCAREOUS PORTION OF THE RAW MATERIAL, (D) PASSING THE REACTED RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A GAS DISTRIBUTION ZONE ADJACENT THE REACTION ZONE TO RECEIVE A HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID PRODUCED FROM A FLUID FUEL BURNED IN A DEFICIENCY OF OXYGEN-BEARING GAS AND HAVING A PRESSURE SUFFICIENT TO TRAVERSE THE REACTION ZONE, THE CALCINING ZONE AND THE HEATING AND DRYING ZONE WITH A RESIDUAL REMAINING PRESSURE, (E) PASSING THE RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A GAS SEALING ZONE ADJACENT THE GAS DISTRIBUTION ZONE, (F) SPLITTING THE FLOW OF THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL IN THE GAS SEAL ZONE INTO TWO CHANNELS, EACH CHANNEL HAVING A CONSTRICTED PASSAGE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FLOW OF THE RAW MATERIAL TO PRODUCE A PRESSURE DROP THROUGH SUCH GAS SEAL ZONE GREATER THAN THE ORIGINAL PRESSURE IN SUCH HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID, (G) PASSING THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A COOLING ZONE ADJACENT THE GAS SEAL ZONE TO COOL THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL UNDER REDUCING CONDITIONS, (H) RECEIVING THE HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID AT THE RESIDUAL REMAINING PRESSURE IN A COOLING PLENUM IN THE COOLING ZONE, (I) RETAINING THE RAW MATERIAL IN THE COOLING ZONE WHILE EMITTING THE HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID FROM THE COOLING PLENUM INTO THE COOLING ZONE, (J) RETAINING THE RAW MATERIAL IN THE COOLING ZONE WHILE EMITTING THE HEATING AND REDUCING FLUID FROM THE COOLING ZONE THROUGH AN EXIT LOUVER, (K) PASSING THE SINTERED RAW MATERIAL THROUGH A DISCHARGE ZONE ADJACENT THE COOLING ZONE, AND (L) DISCHARGING THE RAW MATERIAL WHILE SEALING THE DISCHARGE ZONE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE.
摘要:
A shaft furnace for the gas reduction of metallurgical ores which provides a gas-distributing body centrally of the furnace chamber at the bottom of the furnace column, a support plate below a downwardly converging funnel, the outlet of which has a width corresponding to the gas-distributing element, members for shifting the charge along the support table out of the furnace, and a furnace-charging arrangement having a pair of sliding-plate gas gates or locks between which an intermediate charge-receiving arrangement is provided to restrict the free-fall height of the charge. The gas-distributing element is a roof- or coping-shaped body which is open downwardly and is supplied with reducing gas from one or both ends.