Patents by Inventor Franz-Josef Zurhove
Franz-Josef Zurhove has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170157560Abstract: A plant may include an offgas-producing treatment apparatus for mechanical and/or thermal treatment of an inorganic material, an oxidation catalyst downstream of the offgas-producing treatment apparatus in a flow direction of the offgas, a reduction catalyst downstream of the oxidation catalyst in the flow direction of the offgas, and a temperature-affecting apparatus for affecting the temperature of the offgas upstream of the oxidation catalyst and/or between the oxidation catalyst and the reduction catalyst. In some examples, the the temperature-affecting apparatus is controllable and may comprise at least one of an auxiliary preheater, a mixing-in device for a fluid, or a heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicants: ELEX CemCat AG, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AGInventors: Franz Josef Zurhove, Melanie Flasspöhler, Timo Stender, Kathrin Rohloff
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Publication number: 20170160014Abstract: A method for treating exhaust gas in an exhaust gas treatment device of a system may involve withdrawing exhaust gas from a processing device for mechanically and/or thermally processing an inorganic material of the system. The material to be fed to the processing device may be preheated by heat exchange with the exhaust gas. Further, a temperature of the exhaust gas entering the exhaust gas treatment device may be adjusted by adapting the exchange of heat between the exhaust gas and the inorganic material. In some examples, the exhaust gas treatment device may comprise an oxidation catalytic converter and/or a reduction catalytic converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: ELEX CemCat AGInventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 9028248Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a plant for producing cement clinker, which has a furnace system and has essentially the following process steps:—raw material is preheated in a preheater by means of hot offgases from the furnace system,—dust is removed from the hot offgas downstream of the preheater in a preliminary dust removal apparatus to a residual dust concentration of max. 20 g/standard m3,—the offgas which has been subjected to preliminary dust removal is purified in a selective catalytic flue gas purification plant (selective catalytic reduction, SCR),—at least part of the offgas purified in the flue gas purification plant is conveyed in a bypass around a raw material milling plant to a cooling device and cooled there to temperatures of max. 140° C.,—before the residual dust in the offgas is precipitated in a process filter and—at least part of the residual dust precipitated in the process filter is discharged for removal of mercury.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: ELEX CemCat AGInventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 8936678Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a plant for producing cement clinker and for purifying the off-gases formed thereby, wherein cement raw meal is preheated in a preheater by means of hot off-gases and then optionally precalcined, the preheated and optionally precalcined cement raw meal is burnt in a rotary kiln to form cement clinker, the cement clinker is cooled in a cooler, the hot off-gases used in the preheater are used in a raw mill for treating the cement raw meal, the dust content of a dust-containing mill off-gas thereby formed is reduced in a separating device to less than 5 g/Nm3, preferably less than 1 g/Nm3, alkali hydrogen carbonate and/or alkali carbonate is added to and mixed with the mill off-gas whose dust content has been reduced to less than 5 g/Nm3, and the mixed gas thereby formed is subsequently fed to a process filter for separation of dust laden with pollutants.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: ELEX CemCat AGInventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Publication number: 20140109800Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a plant for producing cement clinker and for purifying the off-gases formed thereby, wherein cement raw meal is preheated in a preheater by means of hot off-gases and then optionally precalcined, the preheated and optionally precalcined cement raw meal is burnt in a rotary kiln to form cement clinker, the cement clinker is cooled in a cooler, the hot off-gases used in the preheater are used in a raw mill for treating the cement raw meal, the dust content of a dust-containing mill off-gas thereby formed is reduced in a separating device to less than 5 g/Nm3, preferably less than 1 g/Nm3, alkali hydrogen carbonate and/or alkali carbonate is added to and mixed with the mill off-gas whose dust content has been reduced to less than 5 g/Nm3, and the mixed gas thereby formed is subsequently fed to a process filter for separation of dust laden with pollutants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ELEX CEMCAT AGInventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 8690091Abstract: A roller mill includes a rotatable grinding table, at least one grinding roller retained rotatably on a pivot lever and in rolling engagement with the grinding table, the pivot lever being pivotable about a pivot lever axis, and at least one drive train connected to the grinding roller and having a fixed motor and a fixed gearing mechanism. The drive train further has a gearing mechanism which pivots with the pivot lever and/or the grinding roller.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Inventors: Guido Scholz, Pedro Guerrero Palma, Heiko Fornefeld, Ludwig Könning, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Helmut Krumme
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Patent number: 8692495Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill having a grinding table, at least one grinding roller and at least two drives with a rotor winding for driving the roller mill and at least one adjustment device for adjusting the motor torque of at least one drive, the adjustment device being connected to the rotor winding of at least one drive in order to influence the rotor current.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Inventors: Markus Berger, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Ludger Kimmeyer, Carsten Sachse
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Patent number: 8651405Abstract: The roller mill according to the invention substantially comprises at least one grinding roller and a grinding table, the grinding table having a grinding table inner space which is open in a downward direction, at least one grinding roller drive system for driving the grinding roller and a grinding table drive system for driving the grinding table. The grinding table drive system further has a gearless direct drive which is arranged in the grinding table inner space.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Benjamin Berndzen, Markus Berger, Guido Scholz, Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Publication number: 20130312640Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a plant for producing cement clinker, which has a furnace system and has essentially the following process steps:—raw material is preheated in a preheater by means of hot offgases from the furnace system,—dust is removed from the hot offgas downstream of the preheater in a preliminary dust removal apparatus to a residual dust concentration of max. 20 g/standard m3,—the offgas which has been subjected to preliminary dust removal is purified in a selective catalytic flue gas purification plant (selective catalytic reduction, SCR),—at least part of the offgas purified in the flue gas purification plant is conveyed in a bypass around a raw material milling plant to a cooling device and cooled there to temperatures of max. 140° C.,—before the residual dust in the offgas is precipitated in a process filter and—at least part of the residual dust precipitated in the process filter is discharged for removal of mercury.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: ELEX CEMCAT AGInventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 8590391Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the load state of a grinding system having rotating grinding elements, the dynamic forces exerted by the grinding stock on the grinding elements being detected in a first frequency range which contains the fundamental oscillation of the grinding elements, and in a second frequency range in which the first harmonic of the fundamental oscillation occurs, and measures for reducing the load state being introduced when the first harmonic exceeds a predetermined threshold value in relation to the magnitude of the fundamental oscillation. Such a method permits very reliable and accurate monitoring of the load state of the grinding system.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Christian Speith, Markus Berger, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Ludger Kimmeyer, Matthias Wuwer, Pedro Guerrero Palma, Gisela Ostkamp
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Publication number: 20120121472Abstract: The flue gas cleaning stage according to the invention for cleaning dust-laden exhaust gases has an SCR catalytic convertor for NOX reduction which has at least three catalytic converter layers which are arranged one behind the other in the flow direction of the exhaust gases, the first catalytic convertor layer in the flow direction having a shorter length than the following layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventor: Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 8128011Abstract: The invention relates to a method for comminuting material to be ground having a roller mill which has a mill platen, at least one mill roller and at least two drives for driving the roller mill, with there being provided a power compensation control system for the drives which controls the power of the drives at a predetermined ratio relative to each other by the speed of at least one drive being controlled.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Markus Berger, Ludwig Könning, Marco Völlink, Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 8038084Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill having a mill housing, a mill path which is supported so as to be rotatable about a mill axis inside the mill housing, and at least one mill roller which can be rotated about a mill roller shaft and which is engaged with the mill path in terms of rolling action. There is further provided a pivot lever which is for rotatably retaining the mill roller and which has a pivot shaft arranged parallel with the mill roller axis and which is supported outside the mill housing. The pivot lever is further in operational contact with a hydropneumatic resilient system in order to adjust the pressing pressure of the mill roller. The pivot lever is supported outside the mill housing with spacing therefrom in such a manner that the forces which are produced by the hydropneumatic resilient system are dissipated into the mill foundation directly or via pillars.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Dirk Dilly, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Thomas Rüther, Ludwig Könning, Pedro Guerrero Palma, Bernhard Peterwerth, Thomas Spliethoff, Heiko Fornefeld
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Publication number: 20110240779Abstract: The roller mill according to the invention substantially comprises at least one grinding roller and a grinding table, the grinding table having a grinding table inner space which is open in a downward direction, at least one grinding roller drive system for driving the grinding roller and a grinding table drive system for driving the grinding table. The grinding table drive system further has a gearless direct drive which is arranged in the grinding table inner space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Benjamin Berndzen, Markus Berger, Guido Scholz, Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Patent number: 7971815Abstract: A milling station and a method for grinding milling material using at least one coarse grinding circuit and at least one fine grinding circuit. The coarse grinding circuit includes a classifier and a material bed roller mill. The fine grinding circuit includes a tube mill with at least two grinding chambers, a central outlet, and a divider. In some instances, at least some of the milling material from the coarse grinding circuit is subdivided in the divider and delivered to the at least two grinding chambers of the fine grinding circuit while some of the milling material is jointly discharged from the at least two grinding chambers through the central outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Ludger Schulte, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Donald A. Longhurst
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Publication number: 20110126641Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring the load state of a grinding system having rotating grinding elements, the dynamic forces exerted by the grinding stock on the grinding elements being detected in a first frequency range which contains the fundamental oscillation of the grinding elements, and in a second frequency range in which the first harmonic of the fundamental oscillation occurs, and measures for reducing the load state being introduced when the first harmonic exceeds a predetermined threshold value in relation to the magnitude of the fundamental oscillation. Such a method permits very reliable and accurate monitoring of the load state of the grinding system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Christian Speith, Markus Berger, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Rüdiger Ostkamp, Ludger Kimmeyer, Matthias Wuwer, Pedro Guerrero Palma
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Publication number: 20110121772Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill having a grinding table, at least one grinding roller and at least two drives with a rotor winding for driving the roller mill and at least one adjustment device for adjusting the motor torque of at least one drive, the adjustment device being connected to the rotor winding of at least one drive in order to influence the rotor current.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Markus Berger, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Ludger Kimmeyer, Carsten Sachse
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Publication number: 20110114771Abstract: The roller mill according to the invention substantially comprises a rotatable grinding table, at least one grinding roller which is retained rotatably on a pivot lever and which is in rolling engagement with the grinding table, the pivot lever being pivotable about a pivot lever axis, and at least one drive train which is connected to the grinding roller and which has a fixed motor and a fixed gearing mechanism. The drive train further has a gearing mechanism which pivots with the pivot lever and/or the grinding roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Guido Scholz, Pedro Guerrero Palma, Heiko Fornefeld, Ludwig Könning, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Helmut Krumme
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Patent number: 7938349Abstract: The invention relates to a roll mill having a grinding plate and at least one grinding roll rolling on the grinding plate, wherein material which is to be comminuted, after being subjected to loading in a gap formed between the grinding plate and grinding roll, is directed away over the periphery of the grinding plate and, furthermore, a stationary accumulating edge, which does not rotate along with the grinding plate, is provided, at least on that side of the grinding roll which is directed towards the periphery of the grinding plate, this accumulating edge forming at least part of an elevation of the periphery of the grinding plate. The elevation of the periphery of the grinding plate here is higher in the region of the grinding rolls than in the region between the grinding rolls, in order to prevent the material which is to be comminuted from escaping radially from the gap formed between the grinding plate and grinding roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Polysius AGInventors: Christian Neumann, Franz-Josef Zurhove
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Publication number: 20100252667Abstract: The invention relates to a roller mill having a mill housing, a mill path which is supported so as to be rotatable about a mill axis inside the mill housing, and at least one mill roller which can be rotated about a mill roller shaft and which is engaged with the mill path in terms of rolling action. There is further provided a pivot lever which is for rotatably retaining the mill roller and which has a pivot shaft arranged parallel with the mill roller axis and which is supported outside the mill housing. The pivot lever is further in operational contact with a hydropneumatic resilient system in order to adjust the pressing pressure of the mill roller. The pivot lever is supported outside the mill housing with spacing therefrom in such a manner that the forces which are produced by the hydropneumatic resilient system are dissipated into the mill foundation directly or via pillars.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: POLYSIUS AGInventors: Dirk Dilly, Franz-Josef Zurhove, Thomas Rüther, Ludwig Könning, Pedro Guerrero Palma, Bernhard Peterwerth, Thomas Spliethoff, Heiko Fornefeld