Abstract: A combustion apparatus (2) is furnished with a loading device, a cremation chamber (10), a heating device (14) for heating the cremation chamber (10), a fresh air supply device, an exhaust gas manifold (18a) for discharging the exhaust gas from the cremation chamber (10), a post-cremation chamber (28), and an exhaust air processing device (38). In order to provide a combustion apparatus with which, with a minimal energy expenditure and a reduced quantity of exhaust gas to be filtered, an accelerated course of the cremation process is possible, it is proposed that the heating device (14) is operatively connected to a gas-tight radiant pipe (12) which is heated by the heating device (14) and which is arranged in the interior of the cremation chamber (10).

Abstract: A thermal processing apparatus (2) is furnished with a loading device, a cremation chamber (10), a heating device (14) for heating the cremation chamber (10), a fresh air supply device, an exhaust gas manifold (18a) for discharging the exhaust gas from the cremation chamber (10), a post-combustion chamber (28), and an exhaust air processing device (38). In order to provide a thermal processing apparatus with which a cremation process with minimal CO2 emissions can be carried out and an acceleration of the cremation process is achieved, it is proposed that the heating device (14) is designed to burn hydrogen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating poly-isoprene and/or other apolar valuable substances from vegetable feedstock, with a first pretreatment (100) of the vegetable feedstock; a percussive, cutting and/or rubbing mechanical processing (102) of the vegetable feedstock after the pre-treatment in a wet phase, during which the polyisoprene and/or other apolar valuable substances contained in the processed raw plant materials are extracted from the vegetable feedstock; and after the mechanical processing (102), a separation (104) of the polyisoprene and/or the other apolar valuable substances from the wet phase. The invention proposes that, before or during the mechanical processing (102) in the wet phase, an adsorber material (106) be added to the ground product mixture to create a method which makes it possible to obtain polyisoprene and other apolar valuable substances from plants having a low rubber content in a technically simpler manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a grinding media mill (2) for obtaining polyisoprene and/or other apolar materials from raw plant materials, having a drum (4) which is peripherally closed and has a milling chamber (10) that is peripherally closed and located in the interior of the drum (4). The aim of the invention is to create a grinding media mill that enables careful processing of the raw plant materials, on the one hand, but is also variable in processing intensity and throughput time, on the other hand.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an engine 52, in particular a combustion engine or a jet-power unit, or an engine part 54, 56 made from metal, and in particular Al or Mg, or an alloy comprising one or more thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle (2) having a drive (4) for a combustible gas, in particular hydrogen, and a plurality of storage vessels (6) for a combustible gas which are connected to the gas drive (4) via a connector.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a connection means 58 made from metal, and in particular Al, Mg, Cu or Ti, or an alloy comprising one or more thereof. The connection means 58 is made from a compound material of said metal reinforced by nanoparticles, in particular CNT, wherein the reinforced metal has a microstructure comprising metal crystallites at least partly separated by said nanoparticles.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an engine 52, in particular a combustion engine or a jet-power unit, or an engine part 54, 56 made from metal, and in particular Al or Mg, or an alloy comprising one or more thereof. The engine or engine part is made from a compound material of said metal reinforced by nanoparticles, in particular CNT, wherein the reinforced metal has a microstructure comprising metal crystallites at least partly separated by said nanoparticles.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composite material comprising a metal and nanoparticles, in particular carbon nano tubes as well as a method of producing the same. A metal powder and the nanoparticles are processed by mechanical alloying, such as to form a composite comprising metal crystallites having an average size in the range of 1-100 nm, preferably 10 to 100 nm or in a range of more than 100 nm and up to 200 nm at least partly separated from each other by said nanoparticles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making metal flakes by low- or high-kinetic milling, also known as mechanical alloying. The object of the invention is to further improve such a known method such that it is also suitable for making metal flakes having improved properties. The object is attained according to the invention in that at least one further alloying additive is provided in addition to a metal base material, and that making the metal flakes is carried out by kinetic milling of the base material together with the at least one alloying additive such that the base material and the alloying additive are mechanically alloyed with each other.

Abstract: A high-energy/superfine milling apparatus has a milling vessel having a side wall centered on a vessel axis, defining a closed compartment, having a pair of end walls, and formed with a closable fill/empty port. An agitator rotatable about the vessel axis in the compartment has a shaft extending through one of the end walls and a plurality of arms projecting generally radially from the shaft. A drive motor adjacent the vessel and connected to the shaft rotates the agitator in the vessel about the vessel axis. The vessel, agitator, and drive motor are supported on a stationary frame for pivoting about a frame axis transverse to the vessel axis between an upright position with the vessel axis generally vertical and a horizontal position with the vessel axis generally horizontal.

Abstract: A high-energy and superfine attritor for solids has inlet and outer fittings open tangentially into a generally cylindrical milling vessel containing a charge of loose milling bodies. The gas flow through the vessel can alternate in velocity and the rotor speed can alternately pass from a relatively high speed to a relatively low speed.

Abstract: A mill, especially an intermittently operating mill with milling bodies is emptied or filled through an opening provided with a pair of ball cocks of which a ball proximal to the opening is integrated with a sieve plate in its throughgoing bore, thereby eliminating dead zones and contamination resulting from wear of the sieve.

Abstract: An attritor has one end of the milling chamber defined by a wall from which a bearing and seal housing is cantilevered, the wall having a flange onto which the milling vessel can be replaceably and interchangeably attached. The milling vessel and housing have a horizontal axis and a rotor rotatable about this axis in the housing as agitator elements for the loose milling medium therein.