Abstract: A method for manufacturing mixed oxide powders including the steps (a) producing a raw material mixture, (b) bringing the raw material mixture into a hot gas flow for the thermal treatment in a reactor, (c) forming particles of the mixed oxide powder, and (d) bringing the particles of the mixed oxide powder which are obtained in the step (b) and (c) out of the reactor, wherein the raw material mixture is manufactured in the form of a solution or suspension of at least one salt and/or salt mixture of at least one compound of the elements lithium, nickel and/or manganese, as well as a mixed oxide powder which is manufactured according to this method.

Abstract: A method for producing urea pellets having a narrow range of grain sizes and a sphericity >75% and a defined residual moisture ?0.5% is provided. The method provides urea pellets having the properties required which meet the requirements of the automotive industry for use thereof in reducing emissions from diesel engines. The method includes spraying a urea-containing liquid having a temperature between ambient temperature and above the melting point of the urea into the high particle density region of the spray zone of a near circular gas, material flow of a spouted bed apparatus and onto the particle surface of the material, which is dried and granulated in the gas flow at a temperature of not more than 130° C. at a controlled heat and mass transfer rate while being separated.

Abstract: A method and a device for producing and/or conditioning powdered material. The aim of the invention is to provide a method and an associated device which are used for producing and/or conditioning powdered material in a spouted bed comprising inert particles and in which a dry, fine powder having a very small particle diameter is produced at a low cost and at adequately large quantities in a continuous operation. This aim is achieved by a method in which the material is treated in several stages in a spouted bed comprising inert particles. In the method, the powdered material that is preprocessed in a first spouted bed and is separated from the larger material particles in an integrated dust collector is fed to a superimposed second spouted bed as a material-gas flow along with the gas flow discharged from the first spouted bed in order to be further reduced in size and be conditioned.

Abstract: A method and a device for producing and/or conditioning powdered material. The aim of the invention is to provide a method and an associated device which are used for producing and/or conditioning powdered material in a spouted bed comprising inert particles and in which a dry, fine powder having a very small particle diameter is produced at a low cost and at adequately large quantities in a continuous operation. This aim is achieved by a method in which the material is treated in several stages in a spouted bed comprising inert particles. In the method, the powdered material that is preprocessed in a first spouted bed and is separated from the larger material particles in an integrated dust collector is fed to a superimposed second spouted bed as a material-gas flow along with the gas flow discharged from the first spouted bed in order to be further reduced in size and be conditioned.

Abstract: A method for producing urea pellets having a narrow range of grain sizes and a sphericity >75% and a defined residual moisture ?0.5% is provided. The method provides urea pellets having the properties required which meet the requirements of the automotive industry for use thereof in reducing emissions from diesel engines. The method includes spraying a urea-containing liquid having a temperature between ambient temperature and above the melting point of the urea into the high particle density region of the spray zone of a near circular gas, material flow of a spouted bed apparatus and onto the particle surface of the material, which is dried and granulated in the gas flow at a temperature of not more than 130° C. at a controlled heat and mass transfer rate while being separated.

Abstract: Invention relates to a process of producing solid sodium cyanide. The process according to the invention is characterized in that an aqueous sodium cyanide solution (1) of 30 to 45% by mass, containing up to 5% by mass solids, is granulated in two process steps in counterflow with heated air, wherein in the first process step a fluidized bed is produced in a fluidized bed granulator (4) by means of hot air (5) from the second process step, in so doing the air being cooled down to a temperature of 60.degree. to 90.degree. C. a sodium cyanide granulate of 2 to 6 mm being set in a classifying discharge duct (16) and the same being dried to a residual moisture of 1.5 to 4% by mass, wherein in the second process step in a further fluidized bed of a drier (14) the granulate produced is dried through an air current (25) with initial temperatures of 150.degree. to 230.degree. C. to a residual moisture settable at liberty of less than 1.5% by mass and is removed by way of a cellular wheel (20 ).