Abstract: A calcining system for the manufacture of cement clinker and the like including the combination of a preheater into which the raw material to be calcined is introduced, a rotary kiln which receives the preheated material either directly or through a preliminary calcinator, and a cooler which receives the discharge of the rotary kiln. In accordance with the invention, a heater means is operatively associated directly with the cooler to bring the cooler up to operating temperatures during start-up.

Abstract: A burner for introducing a suspension of solid fuel particles into a combustion chamber which includes a tubular conduit arranged to receive the suspension therethrough, and flow diverting means positioned at the discharge end of the conduit, and subdividing the cross section of the discharge end into a plurality of discharge openings. The burner may include a centrally disposed conduit which is coaxial with and surrounded by the tubular conduit, and an outer conduit surrounding the tubular conduit and coaxial therewith. The flow diverting means can be positioned at various positions between the respective conduits, to create a turbulent suspension of particles in the primary air stream, creating an aspirating effect for drawing secondary air into the burner along with the turbulent suspension of solid fuel particles.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of finely divided material for the calcination of cement wherein the material is preheated in a multi-stage heat exchanger and later passed to a calcining furnace. The material is partly deacidified in a pre-calcination zone before entering the sintering furnace where further calcining and sintering of the material is completed. A portion of the feed material is treated with rapidly oxidizing fuel components in a pre-calcination zone in a first stage and with more slowly oxidizing fuel components in a second stage, the more slowly oxidizing fuel components being a mixture of relatively fine granulated fuel particles of substantially uniform size and larger particles of briquetted or coarsely broken fuel.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for drying and pulverizing coal which is to be used as a powdered fuel in the manufacture of cement. Air which has been heated in the cooling step of the cement making process is passed through a tertiary air conduit for delivery to a calcining step of the cement making process, and at least a part of the dust-laden air from the grinding step is introduced into the tertiary air conduit.

Abstract: An installation for calcining finely divided particles such as for the preparation of cement including a building which houses a pre-heater, a relatively short rotary tubular kiln which receives the pre-heated particles from the pre-heater, and a rotary cooler which receives the discharge from the rotary kiln, the rotary cooler having a discharge end received in a portion of the building below the pre-heater, the discharge end of the rotary cooler being surrounded by sound absorbing material.

Abstract: Apparatus for the thermal treatment of finely divided material for the calcination of cement wherein the material is preheated in a multi-stage heat exchanger and later passed to a calcining furnace. The material is partly deacidified in a pre-calcination zone before entering the sintering furnace where further calcining and sintering of the material is completed. A portion of the feed material is treated with rapidly oxidizing fuel components in a pre-calcination zone in a first stage and with more slowly oxidizing fuel components in a second stage, the more slowly oxidizing fuel components being a mixture of relatively fine granulated fuel particles of substantially uniform size and larger particles of briquetted or coarsely broken fuel.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the heat treatment of fine-grained material, particularly raw material for the manufacture of cement wherein the material is pre-heated, calcined, sintered, and then cooled, the sintering of the substantially calcined material according to the present invention being carried out in the form of an airborne suspension.

Abstract: Apparatus for the cooling of cement clinker or the like being discharged from a rotary kiln, the apparatus including at least two cooling means arranged to receive the discharge from the rotary kiln and adjustably positionable distributor means arranged to proportion the discharge of the rotary kiln selectively between the two or more cooling means.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of pulverulent material in which the material is preheated and finely calcined in a calcination zone, the improvement involving pre-calcining the pulverulent material in a highly turbulent gaseous stream containing combustible fuel in a pre-calcination zone prior to final calcination.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for heat treatment of comminuted raw material of the type used, for example, for the production of cement in which the material is preheated in a preheater by means of hot exhaust gases from a kiln, the material is separately calcined for the deacidification of a portion of the calcium carbonate present and is subsequently burnt to completion in the kiln. The specific improvement of the present invention involves utilizing undispersed coarse pieces of fuel for the separate calcination and conducting the separate calcination at the material inlet end to the kiln.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of alkali-containing pulverent raw material used in the manufacture of cement in which the material is preheated in a preheater and after sintering in a furnace is conveyed to a cooler. Alkali free exhaust air from the cooler is conveyed into the preheater for heating the material and the alkali-containing furnace exhaust gases are cooled by means of adding a portion of the pulverized raw material to them in a heat exchanger. The alkali salts are condensed and are separated off in a dust collecting chamber.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for calcining cement wherein the material is preheated in a precalcining zone and a vertical conduit leads heated discharge gases upwardly from a main calcining furnace, a supply of fuel and a supply of oxygen is fed to a preoxidation zone beneath the precalcining zone and raw material is fed into an admixing area above the burner with a deflector preventing particles from falling down into the preoxidation zone with the fuel being partially oxidized so that controlled heating and controlled oxidation occurs in the precalcining zone.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of alkali-containing pulverent raw material used in the manufacture of cement in which the material is preheated in a preheater and after sintering in a furnace is conveyed to a cooler. Alkali free exhaust air from the cooler is conveyed into the preheater for heating the material and the alkali-containing furnace exhaust gases are cooled by means of adding a portion of the pulverized raw material to them in a heat exchanger. The alkali salts are condensed and are separated off in a dust collecting chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for the heat treatment of fine-grained material, particularly pulverized raw material for use in the manufacture of cement, the apparatus comprising a preheater composed of a plurality of superimposed cyclones, the preheater feeding a rotary kiln. An exhaust conduit is connected to the rotary kiln and has a combustion zone formed therein. The gas discharge from one of the intermediate cyclones is directed into the combustion zone. The exhaust conduit includes a pair of upper and lower concentric conduits, the upper conduit having its lower end received in spaced relation to the upper end of the lower conduit and terminating at the combustion zone. A fuel feed conduit is disposed between the lower end of the upper conduit and the upper end of the lower conduit. The arrangement provides for a more efficient treatment of finely divided particles with the hot gases.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for calcining cement wherein the material is preheated in a precalcining zone and a vertical conduit leads heated discharge gases upwardly from a main calcining furnace, a supply of fuel and a supply of oxygen is fed to a preoxidation zone beneath the precalcining zone and raw material is fed into an admixing area above the burner with a deflector preventing particles from falling down into the preoxidation zone with the fuel being partially oxidized so that controlled heating and controlled oxidation occurs in the precalcining zone.

Abstract: A process and mechanism for thermally treating fine ground material for the calcining of cement in stages which passes finely ground calcareous and argillaceous material into a vertical chamber to enter a deacidifying zone, supplying fuel to the vertical chamber with a supply of oxygen so that the fuel is partially oxidized prior to mixing with the material and the fuel, oxygen and material are supplied so that the material is deacidified in the range of 50% to 80%, passing exhaust gases from a kiln into the deacidifying zone, and passing material from the deacidifying zone through a cyclone separator to separate the gases and deliver the preheated material to the kiln for completion of the burning process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for thermally treating fine granular material such as for the calcining of cement including a furnace for completing the thermal treatment of the material having a burner therein with the material is first received by parallel plural stage separator systems each having plural cyclone separators, wherein the material is heated by hot exhaust gases and material supplied from first and second separator systems to first and second parallely arranged preheater chambers each having their own burner and receiving the full flow of exhaust gases from a furnace to the separators feeding to the preheater chamber and the preheater chambers connected to discharge their exhaust gases to the separator systems, and the final stage of each separator system discharging the material directly to the furnace.