Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating fly ash containing an initial carbon concentration to obtain ash containing a predetermined final carbon concentration less than the initial concentration, the method including: —a step of granulometric separation of the ash into at least two fractions, a coarse traction and a fine fraction, the coarse fraction having a granulometry greater than the fine fraction; —a step of extracting carbon from the ash; a method wherein the extraction step is subsequent to the separation step, the extraction step being implemented solely on the coarse fraction, by electrostatic separation, the method including a step of drying the ash during which the temperature of the ash is above 60° C.

Abstract: A method of separating different constituents of a fine fraction that is produced in a prior method for separating a concrete for deconstruction. The method allows the reuse of these different constituents in the production of a new cement and/or of a new concrete, the fine fraction including sand and at least 30% by mass of hydrated cement paste.

Abstract: A method of separating different constituents of a fine fraction that is produced in a prior method for separating a concrete for deconstruction. The method allows the reuse of these different constituents in the production of a new cement and/or of a new concrete, the fine fraction including sand and at least 30% by mass of hydrated cement paste.

Abstract: This control subsystem comprises a first control subsystem comprising a first computing module able to acquire interaction data describing the interactions of the operator, associate these interaction data with a command, and generate a command signal corresponding to this command. The system further comprises a second control subsystem comprising a first computing module able to acquire the command signal, verify the compatibility of the command corresponding to the command signal with an operational context and, when the command is compatible with the operational context, generate a confirmation signal, and a third control subsystem able to acquire the command signal and the confirmation signal, and consolidate these signals to command the commanded system.

Abstract: This control subsystem comprises a first control subsystem comprising a first computing module able to acquire interaction data describing the interactions of the operator, associate these interaction data with a command, and generate a command signal corresponding to this command. The system further comprises a second control subsystem comprising a first computing module able to acquire the command signal, verify the compatibility of the command corresponding to the command signal with an operational context and, when the command is compatible with the operational context, generate a confirmation signal, and a third control subsystem able to acquire the command signal and the confirmation signal, and consolidate these signals to command the commanded system.

Abstract: A mill for crushing a bed of materials by compression includes: a horizontal-axis cylinder the interior wall having a runway track for a crushing roller placed inside the cylinder, a unit rotating the cylinder at a speed that spins the material outward, the crushing roller, a unit for pressing the crushing roller against the runway track of the cylinder, an inlet for supplying material for crushing at one end of the cylinder and an outlet for crushed material at the other end, a unit for controlling the movement of the material so it travels over only a fraction of the length of the cylinder in each revolution and passes between the cylinder and the roller several times before reaching the outlet. The runway track is followed by a downstream lip opposing material flow, downstream of the crushing roller in the direction in which the material travels.

Abstract: Method for repairing the teeth of a ring gear and a machining device unit including a frame and a moving part bearing a cutting member movable along multiple axes with respect to the frame, the method including: attaching the machining device to the ring gear by tightening parts rigidly attached to the frame of the machining device, engaging with the flanks of the ring gear, defining the position of the machining device with respect to the tooth to be machined by abutting on the flank of a reference tooth, the flank being situated, with respect to the summit of the reference tooth, in the direction opposite the flank of the tooth to be machined, the reference tooth being the tooth to be machined or an immediately preceding tooth, performing the machining of the flank of the tooth to be machined by control of the cutting member per predetermined machining operations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing sintered material from organic raw materials, implemented in an apparatus comprising, a cyclone preheater, a rotary furnace and a grate cooler, and in which the raw materials are preheated in the cyclone preheater, the preheated material is calcined and sintered in the rotary furnace, and the calcined materials are cooled by blowing cooling air in the grate cooler, producing hot air. The hot air is separated into three upstream-to-downstream fractions, the three hot air fractions being at decreasing temperatures. The first air fraction acts as combustion air in at least the combustion zone of the rotary furnace and/or of the potential precalciner of the apparatus. The second air fraction is greater than the combustion air needs to produce energy. The third air fraction is directed at least in part to the combustion zone of the apparatus, providing combustion air with the first air fraction.

Abstract: A mill for crushing a bed of materials by compression includes: a horizontal-axis cylinder the interior wall having a runway track for a crushing roller placed inside the cylinder, a unit rotating the cylinder at a speed that spins the material outward, the crushing roller, a unit for pressing the crushing roller against the runway track of the cylinder, an inlet for supplying material for crushing at one end of the cylinder and an outlet for crushed material at the other end, a unit for controlling the movement of the material so it travels over only a fraction of the length of the cylinder in each revolution and passes between the cylinder and the roller several times before reaching the outlet. The runway track is followed by a downstream lip opposing material flow, downstream of the crushing roller in the direction in which the material travels.

Abstract: A compressive grinder for a bed of materials, includes: a cylinder having a horizontal axis, and an inner wall having a raceway for a grinding roller arranged inside the cylinder; elements for rotating the cylinder about the axis; the grinding roller having an axis parallel to that of the cylinder; elements for urging the grinding roller against the raceway; an input for supplying material to be ground at one end of the cylinder and an outlet for ground material at the other end. The grinder includes: a smoothing roller upstream of the grinding roller in the cylinder's direction of rotation; elements for keeping the smoothing roller adjacent to and separated from the raceway, such that, upon each cylinder turn, the material consecutively passes under the smoothing roller and then under the grinding roller, the smoothing roller exerting, on the bed of materials, a pressure that smoothes the surface thereof.

Abstract: A compressive grinder for a bed of materials, includes: a cylinder having a horizontal axis, and an inner wall having a raceway for a grinding roller arranged inside the cylinder; elements for rotating the cylinder about the axis; the grinding roller having an axis parallel to that of the cylinder; elements for urging the grinding roller against the raceway; an input for supplying material to be ground at one end of the cylinder and an outlet for ground material at the other end. The grinder includes: a smoothing roller upstream of the grinding roller in the cylinder's direction of rotation; elements for keeping the smoothing roller adjacent to and separated from the raceway, such that, upon each cylinder turn, the material consecutively passes under the smoothing roller and then under the grinding roller, the smoothing roller exerting, on the bed of materials, a pressure that smoothes the surface thereof.

Abstract: Method for cooling granular solid materials from a continuous curing facility having at least one area for burning a fuel to cure granular materials, wherein the curing of the granular materials, then the cooling of the cured granular materials is carried out in two consecutive steps, a first cooling step in a first cooler and a second cooling step in a second cooler, the method including: providing a cold air source for cooling the granular materials, the cold air source directly supplying air to the second cooler by blowing, and the air heated by the cured granular materials being used during the cooling as combustion gas for the burning area. All gases generated by the first and second coolers are routed to the burning area for use as a combustion gas, and the amount of cold air blown to the second cooler is adjusted to cover the air combustion needs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing cement clinker in a plant having a cyclone preheater, a precalcination reactor, a rotary furnace and a clinker cooler. In the process, the flue gases from the furnace are conducted to the precalcination reactor, or even to the cyclone preheater. According to the invention, the precalcination reactor is fed with an oxygen-rich gas, the nitrogen content of which is less than 30%, constituting the sole oxygen source for said reactor, and a portion leaving the cyclone preheater is recycled into the plant so as to obtain a suitable flux necessary for suspending matter in said preheater, while the other portion, rich in carbon dioxide, is adapted for the purpose of a treatment for limiting the amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere, such as particularly sequestration.

Abstract: A grain size and/or pulverulent-matter drying apparatus for the treatment of suspended mineral particles, at least 90% in weight of which have a size less than 60 mm, primarily includes a substantially vertical gas pipe with an ascending flow provided with a gas inlet, a lower opening and an upper opening between which a supply opening is also provided for insertion of matter. A portion of the matter, or so-called “fines”, can escape with the gas through the upper opening due to the bearing capacity of the ascending flow, while another coarser portion of the matter is not carried away by the gas and falls into the lower opening. The apparatus also has a device for creating turbulence, which favors the separation of the different grain sizes and the suspension of matter, provided at the internal wall of the pipe and located between the lower opening and the supply opening.

Abstract: Method for cooling granular solid materials from a continuous curing facility having at least one area for burning a fuel to cure granular materials, wherein the curing of the granular materials, then the cooling of the cured granular materials is carried out in two consecutive steps, a first cooling step in a first cooler and a second cooling step in a second cooler, the method including: providing a cold air source for cooling the granular materials, the cold air source directly supplying air to the second cooler by blowing, and the air heated by the cured granular materials being used during the cooling as combustion gas for the burning area. All gases generated by the first and second coolers are routed to the burning area for use as a combustion gas, and the amount of cold air blown to the second cooler is adjusted to cover the air combustion needs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of methods and systems for optimizing the locating of an aircraft in airports and, more particularly, in the take-off and landing phases, and notably in the air-ground and ground-air transition phases. The method of optimizing the locating of an aircraft during the take-off or landing phase comprising a transition step (21), the latter being defined between two events (A0, AS), the first event being a condition of contact between the aircraft and the runway and the second event being a threshold condition defining a stabilized flight phase, is wherein the transition step (21) comprises the determination of at least one “transition position” of the aircraft by a weighting between the “ground position” (LOC_SOL) determined by the ground locating system and the “flight position” (LOV_VOL) determined by the in-flight locating system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing cement clinker in a plant having a cyclone preheater, a precalcination reactor, a rotary furnace and a clinker cooler. In the process, the flue gases from the furnace are conducted to the precalcination reactor, or even to the cyclone preheater. According to the invention, the precalcination reactor is fed with an oxygen-rich gas, the nitrogen content of which is less than 30%, constituting the sole oxygen source for said reactor, and a portion leaving the cyclone preheater is recycled into the plant so as to obtain a suitable flux necessary for suspending matter in said preheater, while the other portion, rich in carbon dioxide, is adapted for the purpose of a treatment for limiting the amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere, such as particularly sequestration.

Abstract: A grain size and/or pulverulent-matter drying apparatus for the treatment of suspended mineral particles, at least 90% in weight of which have a size less than 60 mm, primarily includes a substantially vertical gas pipe with an ascending flow provided with a gas inlet, a lower opening and an upper opening between which a supply opening is also provided for insertion of matter. A portion of the matter, or so-called “fines”, can escape with the gas through the upper opening due to the bearing capacity of the ascending flow, while another coarser portion of the matter is not carried away by the gas and falls into the lower opening. The apparatus also has a device for creating turbulence, which favors the separation of the different grain sizes and the suspension of matter, provided at the internal wall of the pipe and located between the lower opening and the supply opening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of methods and systems for optimizing the locating of an aircraft in airports and, more particularly, in the take-off and landing phases, and notably in the air-ground and ground-air transition phases. The method of optimizing the locating of an aircraft during the take-off or landing phase comprising a transition step (21), the latter being defined between two events (A0, AS), the first event being a condition of contact between the aircraft and the runway and the second event being a threshold condition defining a stabilized flight phase, is wherein the transition step (21) comprises the determination of at least one “transition position” of the aircraft by a weighting between the “ground position” (LOC_SOL) determined by the ground locating system and the “flight position” (LOV_VOL) determined by the in-flight locating system.

Abstract: A centrifugal type pneumatic separator having a rotor and a housing. The rotor has a plurality of vanes distributed around a periphery thereof. The housing contains the rotor. The housing has an air input conduit, a material input conduit and an evacuation conduit. The air input conduit passes air through channels formed between adjacent vanes such that air and material flows toward the evacuation conduit. The rotor is divided so as to define at least two separate passages whereby air from the air input conduit flows into the evacuation conduit as two separate and parallel streams.