Patents by Inventor Horst Dungs

Horst Dungs 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).

  • Patent number: 4374811
    Abstract: A method and device of cooling and separating chlorides and fluorides from ammoniacal gas produced in the carbonization gasification of coal includes the addition of an aqueous salt solution having a concentration of at least one of chlorine and fluorine ions up to saturation to the ammoniacal gas in a color to form a salt solution enriched with chlorides, fluorides and ammonia compounds and a treated gas, and removing at least part of the enriched solution from the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH and Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Karger, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4370202
    Abstract: A coke cooler and method of operating the cooler is disclosed for dry cooling hot glowing coke through the recovery of the sensible heat of the hot glowing coke. The apparatus includes a vertically elongated vessel having walls partially formed with integral heat exchange tubes for the passage of a liquid coolant and a shroud having an internal prechamber mounted in the upper end of the vessel for receiving a charge of the hot glowing coke. The shroud cooperates with the vessel to provide a annular passage for fluid flow therebetween of a gas which directly contacts the hot glowing coke for direct cooling while liquid coolant is passed through the tubes for indirectly cooling the coke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4354903
    Abstract: A three-cycle process as disclosed for drying and preheating coking coal using the heat from cooled coke. Cooling gas is passed over hot coke to heat the cooling gas and cool the coke. The heated cooling gas is then passed through a waste heat boiler and then back to the hot coke in a coke cooling chamber. This completes the first closed cycle. Water is supplied to the waste heat boiler to form steam. The steam is supplied to a fluidized bed of wet coal to indirectly preheat and dry the wet coal in a second cycle. The wet coal is fluidized using fluidizing gas which converts water in the wet coal into steam. Some of the steam is condensed from the combination of fluidizing gas plus steam and then the fluidizing gas is returned to the bed. Steam from the waste heat boiler is also supplied to the fluidizing gas before it re-enters the bed to heat the fluidizing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4352720
    Abstract: The process for the production of molded metallurgical coke from dried coal or fine coal mixtures with a low swelling index particularly highly volatile fine coal comprises mixing normal washed fine coal or fine coal mixtures of a grain size of from 0 to 10 mm and a swelling index of not more than 5 with a binder, pressing the mixture into briquettes, oxidizing the briquettes in a continuous material flow stream, and coking the oxidized briquettes continuously in an oven chamber by supplying indirectly and exhausting the coke oven gases with a temperature of 300.degree. to 1200.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Klaus Urbye
  • Patent number: 4338161
    Abstract: An apparatus and arrangement is disclosed for cooling glowing coke in a dry circuit which utilizes a cooling chamber divided by cooling walls into a plurality of parallel vertically extending cooling channels. The cooling walls are supplied with a cooling medium for indirectly cooling the glowing coke. A coke discharge mechanism in the form of a chute having a comb-like end and paddle wheels between the teeth of the comb is provided at the bottom of each cooling channel to discharge coke from the cooling chamber in a controlled fashion to an underlying after-chamber. Each cooling channel is provided with cooling gas for directly cooling the glowing coke. An arrangement utilizing the apparatus supplies cooling gas directly to the cooling channels which, after passing out of the cooling chamber, passes into a waste heat boiler which is supplied with water so that it is heated by the now hot cooling gas to produce steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4305788
    Abstract: The process for the production of molded metallurgical coke from dried coal or fine coal mixtures with a low swelling index particularly highly volatile fine coal comprises mixing normal washed fine coal or fine coal mixtures of a grain size of from 0 to 10 mm and a swelling index of not more than 5 with a binder, pressing the mixture into briquettes, oxidizing the briquettes in a continuous material flow stream, and coking the oxidized briquettes continuously in an oven chamber by supplying indirectly and exhausting the coke oven gases with a temperature of 300.degree. to 1200.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Klaus Urbye
  • Patent number: 4293388
    Abstract: Abrasion-proof coke forms are produced from bituminous coal, brown coal, or peat in the form of briquets, by preheating the briquets, dehydrating or predrying them, carbonizing them and then cooling them in at least three separate stages in which the briquets are dehydrated indirectly by subjecting them to indirect temperature conditions, producing a temperature gradient in the briquets. The briquets are automatically fed into a shaft tower which includes an upper drying shaft portion made up of a plurality of stacked radiators which include tube elements for the passing of a heating fluid, such as steam, therethrough and which define vertical shaft passages through which the briquet forms are passed downwardly and into a carbonizing shaft which has separate gas channels for directing heating gases therethrough and to a heating flue and which subsequently includes a lower cooling zone through which the briquets pass and then into a discharge channel where they are delivered for classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Hans B. Koenigs, Roman Kurtz
  • Patent number: 4289500
    Abstract: A method of producing hot briquettes in a plurality of stages comprises heating inert components which do not soften by direct heat exchange with hot carrier gases which are generated in a combustor to a temperature of about from 550.degree. to 700.degree. C. Thereafter the heated inert components and the gases are directed to a first separator to separate the carrier gases from the heated inert components. A caking bituminous binder coal component is then preheated and dried to temperatures of either 60.degree. over or under 300.degree. C. with the separated carrier gas. The binder coal and the separated carrier gas is then directed to a second separator to provide a second separated carrier gas and the heated binder coal. The second heated carrier gas is directed into a third separator in direct heat exchange with a second inert component which is then heated by this to a temperature of from 350.degree. to 600.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Karl-Heinz Wollenhaupt, Yves Brasseur, Henri Birscheidt, Franz Beckmann
  • Patent number: 4274924
    Abstract: A method of cooling and dedusting degasification gases which escape from coal degasification chambers particularly gases which are obtained in high temperature or low temperature carbonization of bituminous and subbituminous coals and which pass from degasification chambers through risers and bends into collection mains and in the bends or in the collecting mains themselves which comprises directing crude tar having a temperature in excess of 50.degree. C. and lower than 170.degree. C. into the bends and collecting mains either alone or with water added which has a temperature and is of a quantity such that it completely evaporates in the collecting main.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Franz Beckmann, Hugo Schmauch, Karl-Heinz Flasch
  • Patent number: 4260458
    Abstract: A coke oven, comprises a housing having an interior vertically elongated coke oven chamber with a plurality of vertically extending binding walls subdividing the oven chamber into a plurality of heating flues. A nozzle in each of the binder walls between the heating flues discharges a rich gas into each flue. In addition, the binder walls contain respective first and second vertical air ducts arranged in alternate binder walls between the flues with alternate ones of the air ducts having discharges at one or more levels above the others of each binder duct wall and connecting into the flues on each side of the associated binding wall. An air duct supply is connected separately to the alternate ones in each of the other air supply ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still Recklinghausen
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4259157
    Abstract: Abrasion-proof coke forms are produced from bituminous coal, brown coal, or peat in the form of briquets, by preheating the briquets, dehydrating or predrying them, carbonizing them and then cooling them in at least three separate stages in which the briquets are dehydrated indirectly by subjecting them to indirect temperature conditions, producing a temperature gradient in the briquets. The briquets are automatically fed into a shaft tower which includes an upper drying shaft portion made up of a plurality of stacked radiators which include tube elements for the passing of a heating fluid, such as steam, therethrough and which define vertical shaft passages through which the briquet forms are passed downwardly and into a carbonizing shaft which has separate gas channels for directing heating gases therethrough and to a heating flue and which subsequently includes a lower cooling zone through which the briquets pass and then into a discharge channel where they are delivered for classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignees: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Hans B. Koenigs, Roman Kurtz
  • Patent number: 4259158
    Abstract: A method of producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets in a shaft furnace comprises charging the coke briquets into the top of the furnace and removing coke from the bottom of the furnace while directing inert hot combustion gases into the furnace and through the briquets at a plurality of vertically spaced levels throughout the height of the shaft furnace. Gases are directed at temperatures to effect and successively lower stages of the furnace the preheating, predrying, carbonization, and cooling of the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignees: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Roman Kurtz, Hans-Joachim Kersting
  • Patent number: 4248603
    Abstract: A method for producing hot briquettes, for example, for use in blast furnaces, and using a briquetting material of non-caking components, such as low temperature coke from bituminous coal and/or lignite, coke dust and/or oil coke and caking fat coal at temperatures between 430.degree. C. and 540.degree. C., comprising, delivering the briquetting material to a briquetting press to form briquette blanks, tempering and degassing the blanks by delivering the blanks into individual chambers in a closed system of several chambers having gas communication with each other so that there is partly changing amounts of gas generated in the individual chambers and the briquette blanks are formed into tempered briquettes, and applying an overpressure to the chambers to conduct the gases away from the chamber with one and the same overpressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignees: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Mecan Arbed S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Fritz Ferdinand, Yves Brasseur, Henri Birscheidt
  • Patent number: 4248670
    Abstract: A device for producing abrasion-proof coke forms from bituminous or brown coal briquettes, charcoal or peat, comprising, a preheating stage, a dehydrating stage, a carbonization stage and a cooling stage, each stacked in a column to form a tower furnace. Each of the stages include an annular zone for receiving the coal or charcoal material and each stage is supplied with a separate and independent gas circuit. Each annular zone is formed between an inner substantially cylindrical jacket and an outer substantially cylindrical jacket with a shaft space defined in the inner cylindrical jacket. Heaters for the gas circuits of the preheating, dehydrating and carbonizing stages are disposed in the shaft space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs
  • Patent number: 4247365
    Abstract: A method of cooling and dedusting degasification gases which escape from coal degasification chambers particularly gases which are obtained in high temperature or low temperature carbonization of bituminous and subbituminous coals and which pass from degasification chambers through risers and bends into collection mains and in the bends or in the collecting mains themselves which comprises directing crude tar having a temperature in excess of 50.degree. C. and lower than 170.degree. C. into the bends and collecting mains either alone or with water added which has a temperature and is of a quantity such that it completely evaporates in the collecting main.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Franz Beckmann, Hugo Schmauch, Karl-Heinz Flasche
  • Patent number: 4231844
    Abstract: A method of producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets in a shaft furnace comprises charging the coke briquets into the top of the furnace and removing coke from the bottom of the furnace while directing inert hot combustion gases into the furnace and through the briquets at a plurality of vertically spaced levels throughout the height of the shaft furnace. Gases are directed at temperatures to effect and successively lower stages of the furnace the preheating, predrying, carbonization, and cooling of the charge. Gases are collected in each of the preheating and predrying stages by the use of a tubular suction arm which extends substantially across the width of the furnace and includes a performated bottom and sidewalls which extend partly below the bottom and are provided with a saw-tooth configuration so as to withdraw the gases through the space below the bottom and through the perforations of the bottom and to effect entrainment of dust from the charge in so doing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignees: Firma Carl Still GmbH & Co. KG, Rheinische Braunkohlwerke AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Roman Kurtz, Hans-Joachim Kersting
  • Patent number: 4187079
    Abstract: A method for the production of form coke, such as coke for use in the smelting industry as blast furnace coke and also in electro-metallurgical facilities, comprising, coking a high volatile coal containing at least 35% volatile constituents so as to remove the volatile constituents to form a non-baking base coal, mixing a plurality of fine grain coal components together, of which at least one of the components comprises said non-baking base coal and at least one other component comprises a baking bituminous coal so as to form a mixture of such coals, subjecting the mixture to a degassing operation using highly volatile coals, coking the degassed mixture and pressing the coke into briquettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Kurt Lorenz, Horst Dungs, Karl-Heinz Wollenhaupt
  • Patent number: 4181502
    Abstract: A method of producing form coke, particularly metallurigical coke for a blast furnace, comprises, mixing at least two fine ground coal components, of which one is a non-caking component containing only little of volatile matter and comprises an oil coke, and the other is a caking bituminous coal, and at temperatures corresponding approximately to the softening point of the caking coal component. The mixture is carbonized and pressed to form a briquetted form coke, and the form coke is subsequently hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignees: Firma Carl Still, Eschweiler Bergwerksverein
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Franz Beckmann
  • Patent number: 4158550
    Abstract: A method of producing blast furnace coke from bituminous coals, particularly coals having poor coking capacities in which the coal to be carbonized is ground, predried or preheated, mixed with binders, compressed or formed into briquets having small mechanical resistances and charged into oven chambers, is characterized by fine coals or fine coal mixtures having a swelling index in mixture according to DIN 51741, smaller than 7, and preferably, below 6, and comprising more than 50% of poorly or non-baking coal having a content of volatile matter in excess of 30% or less than 20% which coals or coal mixtures are ground up to attain a surface per unit mass, according to DIN 66145, of from 400 cm.sup.2 to 1200 cm.sup.2 per gram, with from 3% to 8% by weight of organic binders, compressing the mixture to form it into a briquet at a temperature range of from 70.degree. C. to 300.degree. C. and charging the compressed briquet into the oven chambers without substantial intermediate cooling in order to carbonize it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Klaus Urbye, Franz Beckmann, Hugo Schmauch, Karl H. Flasche
  • Patent number: 4142941
    Abstract: A method of producing blast furnace coke from bituminous coals, particularly coals having poor coking capacities in which the coal to be carbonized is ground, predried or preheated, mixed with binders, compressed or formed into briquets having small mechanical resistances and charged into oven chambers, is characterized by fine coals or fine coal mixtures having a swelling index in mixture according to DIN 51741, smaller than 7, and preferably, below 6, and comprising more than 50% of poorly or non-baking coal having a content of volatile matter in excess of 30% or less than 20% which coals or coal mixtures are ground up to attain asurface per unit mass, according to DIN 66145, of from 400 cm.sup.2 to 1200 cm.sup.2 per gram, and with from 3% to 8% by weight of organic binders, compressing the mixture to form it into a briquet at a temperature range of from 70.degree. C. to 300.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Firma Carl Still Recklinghausen
    Inventors: Heinrich Weber, Horst Dungs, Klaus Urbye, Franz Beckmann, Hugo Schmauch, Karl H. Flasche