Patents by Inventor Michael Ströder
Michael Ströder 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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Patent number: 8048380Abstract: A plant for producing metal oxide from metal compounds includes a fluidized-bed reactor in which the metal compounds are heated by a combustion of a fuel to produce metal oxide. The fluidized-bed-reactor reactor includes at least one gas supply tube at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is disposed, and a mixing chamber disposed above an orifice region of the gas supply tube. A gas flowing through the gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed when passing through the orifice region.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Martin Hirsch, Werner Stockhausen, Michael Stroeder
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Patent number: 8025836Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide includes a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes at least one gas supply tube at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is located, and a mixing chamber being located above the upper orifice region of the at least one gas supply tube. The gas flowing through the at least one gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed-into the mixing chamber when passing through the upper orifice region of the at least one gas supply tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyiInventors: Martin Hirsch, Michael Stroeder, Peter Weber
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Patent number: 8021601Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing titanium includes a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes at least one gas supply tube being at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is located, and a mixing chamber being located above the upper orifice region of the gas supply tube. The gas flowing through the gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed into the mixing chamber when passing through the upper orifice region of the gas supply system. The plant further includes a solids separator downstream of the reactor. The solids separator includes a solids conduit leading to the annular fluidized bed of the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Dirk Nuber, Michael Stroeder, Werner Stockhausen, Lothar Formanek, Martin Hirsch, Ali-Naghi Beyzavi
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Patent number: 8021600Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide. The plant includes a reactor including a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes a gas supply system disposed in the reactor, a stationary annular fluidized bed which at least partly surrounds the gas supply system, and a mixing chamber. The gas supply system is configured so that gas flowing through the gas supply system entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed into the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Andreas Orth, Martin Hirsch, Peter Weber, Stuart Sneyd, Dirk Nuber, Michael Stroeder
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Patent number: 7878156Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the conveyance of fine-grained solids in a fluidized bed reactor and also to a corresponding plant. It is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a central tube (3) into a mixing chamber (7) of the reactor (1), the central tube (3) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (10) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture as well as of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (10) are adjusted such that the particle Froude numbers in the central tube (3) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidizied bed (10) between 0.02 and 2 in the mixing chamber (7) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Jochen Freytag, Martin Hirsch, Michael Ströder
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Publication number: 20110011211Abstract: A process for the production and/or treatment of at least one metal in a reactor includes discharging a waste gas stream via a waste gas conduit and after-treating the waste gas stream by supplying a cooling gas and/or a cooling gas mixture. The after-treating includes injecting the cooling gas and/or cooling gas mixture into the waste gas conduit on a side of the waste gas conduit facing the reactor, at a high velocity and substantially tangentially with respect to a main flow direction of the waste gas. A volume of the cooling gas and/or the cooling gas mixture injected into the waste gas conduit is adjusted so as to reduce a mixing temperature below a melting temperature of the molten particles and/or a condensation temperature of the vaporous constituents of the waste gas stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: OUTOTEC OYJInventors: Andreas Orth, Michael Stroeder, Jean-Paul Nepper
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Patent number: 7854608Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the heat treatment of fine-grained solids, in particular gypsum, in which the solids are heated to a temperature of 50 to 1000° C. in a fluidized bed reactor (1), and to a corresponding plant. To improve the energy utilization, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a preferably central gas supply tube (3) into a mixing chamber (21) of the reactor (1), the gas supply tube (3) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (2) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas, and to adjust the gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture as well as of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (2) such that the particle Froude numbers in the gas supply tube (3) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (2) between 0.02 and 2 and in the mixing chamber (21) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Dirk Nuber, Werner Stockhausen, Michael Ströder
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Publication number: 20100163465Abstract: A method for dividing a stream of solids includes discharging the stream of solids via a first downer. The stream of solids are fluidized at a bottom of the first downer by supplying a first conveying gas. By the first conveying gas, a part of the stream of solids are conveyed to a top of a first riser branching off from the first downer. A remaining part of the stream of solids are discharged via a second downer adjoining the first downer. The remaining stream of solids are fluidized at a bottom of the second downer by supplying a second conveying gas. By the second conveying gas, a part of the remaining part of the stream of solids are conveyed to a top of a second riser branching off from the second downer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: Roger Bligh, Pekka Hiltunen, Cornelis Klett, Michael Missalla, Bernd Reeb, Lilli Sacharow, Michael Stroeder, Peter Sturm
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Publication number: 20100118641Abstract: A method for controlling at least one of a level of solids and an inventory of solids in a solids tank includes withdrawing a stream of solids from the solids tank via a downer. The stream of solids withdrawn from the solids tank is fluidized at a bottom of the downer by supplying a conveying gas so as to convey the withdrawn stream of solids upward via a riser branching off from the downer, a size of the conveyed stream of solids being adjusted by the supplying of the conveying gas. At least one of the level and the inventory of the solids in the solids tank is used as an adjustment variable of a control circuit and a volume flow of the conveying gas is used as an actuating variable of the control circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Outotec OyjInventors: Roger Bligh, Pekka Hiltunen, Cornelis Klett, Michael Missalla, Bernd Reeb, Lilli Sacharow, Michael Stroeder, Peter Sturm
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Publication number: 20100074805Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing titanium includes a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes at least one gas supply tube being at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is located, and a mixing chamber being located above the upper orifice region of the gas supply tube. The gas flowing through the gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed into the mixing chamber when passing through the upper orifice region of the gas supply system. The plant further includes a solids separator downstream of the reactor. The solids separator includes a solids conduit leading to the annular fluidized bed of the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: OUTOTEC OYJInventors: Dirk Nuber, Michael Stroeder, Werner Stockhausen, Ali-Naghi Beyzavi, Lothar Formanek, Martin Hirsch
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Publication number: 20100044933Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide includes a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes at least one gas supply tube at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is located, and a mixing chamber being located above the upper orifice region of the at least one gas supply tube. The gas flowing through the at least one gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed-into the mixing chamber when passing through the upper orifice region of the at least one gas supply tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: OUTOTEC OYJInventors: Martin Hirsch, Michael Ströder, Peter Weber
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Publication number: 20100040512Abstract: A plant for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide. The plant includes a reactor including a fluidized bed reactor. The reactor includes a gas supply system disposed in the reactor, a stationary annular fluidized bed which at least partly surrounds the gas supply system, and a mixing chamber. The gas supply system is configured so that gas flowing through the gas supply system entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed into the mixing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: OUTOTEC OYJInventors: Andreas Orth, Martin Hirsch, Peter Weber, Stuart Sneyd, Dirk Nuber, Michael Stroeder
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Patent number: 7662351Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing metal oxide from metal compounds, in particular metal hydroxide or metal carbonate, in which the metal compound is conveyed into a reactor (25) with fluidized bed, heated there to a temperature of 650 15 to 1150° C. by combustion of fuel, and metal oxide is generated, as well as to a corresponding plant. To improve the utilization of energy, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a gas supply tube (26) into a mixing chamber (20) of the reactor (25), the gas supply tube (26) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (27) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas, and 20 to adjust the gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture and of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (27) such that the Particle-Froude numbers in the gas supply tube (26) lie between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (27) between 0.02 and 2, and in the mixing chamber (20) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2003Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Martin Hirsch, Werner Stockhausen, Michael Ströder
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Patent number: 7651547Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a plant for the heat treatment of solids containing titanium and possibly further metal oxides, in which fine-grained solids are heated to a temperature of 700 to 950° C. in a fluidized bed reactor (1). To improve the energy utilization, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a gas supply tube (3) into a mixing chamber (7) of the reactor (1), the gas supply tube (3) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (10) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture as well as of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (10) are adjusted such that the particle Froude numbers in the gas supply tube (3) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (10) between 0.02 and 2 and in the mixing chamber (7) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Dirk Nuber, Michael Ströder, Werner Stockhausen, Ali-Naghi Beyzavi, Lothar Formanek, Martin Hirsch
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Patent number: 7632334Abstract: A method for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide, in which fine-grained solids are heated to a temperature of about 630° C. in a fluidized-bed reactor (1). To improve the utilization of energy, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a supply tube (3) into a mixing chamber (7) of the reactor (1), the gas supply tube (3) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (10) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture and of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bet (10) are adjusted such that the Particle-Froude-Numbers in the gas supply tube (3) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (10) between 0.02 and 2, and in the mixing chamber (7) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Outotec OYJInventors: Martin Hirsch, Michael Ströder, Peter Weber
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Patent number: 7625422Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a plant for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide, in which fine-grained solids are heated to a temperature of 700 to 1150° C. in a fluidized bed reactor (8). To improve the utilization of energy, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through at least one gas supply tube (9) into a mixing chamber region (15) of the reactor (8), the gas supply tube (9) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (12) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture and of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (12) are adjusted such that the Particle-Froude-Numbers in the gas supply tube (9) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (12) between 0.02 and 2, and in the mixing chamber (15) between 0.3 and 30.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Outotec OyjInventors: Andreas Orth, Martin Hirsch, Peter Weber, Stuart Sneyd, Dirk Nuber, Michael Ströder
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Publication number: 20090274589Abstract: A plant for producing metal oxide from metal compounds includes a fluidized-bed reactor in which the metal compounds are heated by a combustion of a fuel to produce metal oxide. The fluidized-bed-reactor reactor includes at least one gas supply tube at least partly surrounded by an annular chamber in which a stationary annular fluidized bed is disposed, and a mixing chamber disposed above an orifice region of the gas supply tube. A gas flowing through the gas supply tube entrains solids from the stationary annular fluidized bed when passing through the orifice region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Outotec OyjInventors: Martin Hirsch, Werner Stockhausen, Michael Stroeder
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Publication number: 20060230880Abstract: A method for the heat treatment of solids containing iron oxide, in which fine-grained solids are heated to a temperature of about 630° C. in a fluidized-bed reactor (1). To improve the utilization of energy, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a supply tube (3) into a mixing chamber (7) of the reactor (1), the gas supply tube (3) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (10) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture and of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bet (10) are adjusted such that the Particle-Froude-Numbers in the gas supply tube (3) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (10) between 0.02 and 2, and in the mixing chamber (7) between 0.3 and 30.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Martin Hirsch, Michael Ströder, Peter Weber
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Publication number: 20060228281Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing gaseous pollutants from exhaust gases, in which the gaseous pollutants react with a fine-grained reactant by forming solids in a fluidized-bed reactor (2), and to a corresponding plant. To achieve low pollutant concentrations in the clean gas with an almost stoichiometric consumption of reactant, it is proposed to introduce the exhaust gas from below through a preferably central gas supply tube (20) into a mixing chamber (21) of the reactor (2), the gas supply tube (20) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed (22) of reactant, which bed is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas, and to adjust the the gas velocities of the exhaust gas and of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed (22) such that the Particle-Froude-Numbers in the gas supply tube (20) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed (22) between 0.02 and 2, and in the mixing chamber (21) between 0.3 and 30.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2003Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventors: Michael Ströder, Stuart Sneyd, Klaus Hasselwander
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Patent number: 6916357Abstract: Granular ore or ore concentrate is charged into a furnace for calcining the ore at temperatures of 400 to 1050° C., the ore forming a stationary fluidized bed in the furnace. The ore is thrown onto the fluidized bed through an opening in the furnace housing disposed above the fluidized bed, the ore being accelerated by blades of a rotating impeller. The impeller is disposed outside the furnace in the vicinity of the opening of the housing. Preferably, the rotational speed of the impeller is variable, and the impeller is movable and/or pivotable with respect to the furnace.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Inventors: Michael Ströder, Horst Zingrebe, Hubert Vollmer