Abstract: A heat storage device such as a hot blast stove including a heat regeneration checkerwork made of checker bricks, the checkerwork being supported by a support assembly (16). In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, the support assembly having a carrier structure made of refractory material and carrier floor also made of refractory material, the carrier floor resting on the carrier structure and being arranged and formed to carry the checker bricks of the checkerwork.

Abstract: An arrangement for measuring a volume of sample is disclosed. The arrangement includes a first chamber for accommodating the sample; at least one second chamber connectable to the first chamber; a first gas path including a first valve connected to the first chamber and on the other end connected to a gas entry path; a second gas path including a second valve, connected to the second chamber and on the other end connected to the gas entry path; a pressure sensor; a third gas path including a third valve, the third gas path connected to the first chamber and on the other end connected, via the third valve, to the pressure sensor; a fourth gas path including a fourth valve, the fourth path being connected to the second chamber and on the other end connected, via the fourth valve, to the pressure sensor.

Abstract: A burner assembly for top combustion hot blast stove including a burner surrounded by a burner shell, where the burner has a circular cross-section; a number of air nozzles arranged for tangentially feeding air to the burner, the air nozzles being connected to one or more air distribution chambers; a number of gas nozzles arranged for tangentially feeding gas to the burner, the gas nozzles being connected to one or more gas distribution chambers; wherein the air nozzles are arranged in one or more inclined or vertical stacked arrays of air nozzles, each inclined or vertical stacked array being in connection with one inclined or vertical air distribution chamber; the gas nozzles are arranged in one or more inclined or vertical stacked arrays of gas nozzles, each inclined or vertical stacked array being in connection with one inclined or vertical gas distribution chamber; and the inclined or vertical air distribution chamber(s) and the inclined or vertical gas distribution chamber(s) are arranged along the circ

Abstract: An arrangement for measuring a volume of sample is disclosed. The arrangement includes a first chamber for accommodating the sample; at least one second chamber connectable to the first chamber; a first gas path including a first valve connected to the first chamber and on the other end connected to a gas entry path; a second gas path including a second valve, connected to the second chamber and on the other end connected to the gas entry path; a pressure sensor; a third gas path including a third valve, the third gas path connected to the first chamber and on the other end connected, via the third valve, to the pressure sensor; a fourth gas path including a fourth valve, the fourth path being connected to the second chamber and on the other end connected, via the fourth valve, to the pressure sensor.

Abstract: A burner assembly for top combustion hot blast stove including a burner surrounded by a burner shell, where the burner has a circular cross-section; a number of air nozzles arranged for tangentially feeding air to the burner, the air nozzles being connected to one or more air distribution chambers; a number of gas nozzles arranged for tangentially feeding gas to the burner, the gas nozzles being connected to one or more gas distribution chambers; wherein the air nozzles are arranged in one or more inclined or vertical stacked arrays of air nozzles, each inclined or vertical stacked array being in connection with one inclined or vertical air distribution chamber; the gas nozzles are arranged in one or more inclined or vertical stacked arrays of gas nozzles, each inclined or vertical stacked array being in connection with one inclined or vertical gas distribution chamber; and the inclined or vertical air distribution chamber(s) and the inclined or vertical gas distribution chamber(s) are arranged along the circ

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of epoxy derivatives which have been prepared by reacting a di-, tri- or tetraglycidyl compound (A) with an optionally unsaturated reactive component (B) consisting of a C8-C28-fatty acid, a C8-C28-alcohol or a secondary C8-C28-amine as additives to cementitious building materials. The epoxy derivatives proposed according to the invention are outstandingly suitable as compositions for preventing or suppressing efflorescence on surfaces of set cementitious building materials and/or for hydrophobing the corresponding cementitious systems. In addition, the cementitious products take up substantially less water owing to the additives proposed according to the invention, with the result that frost damage and rapid rusting of the reinforcing steel can be substantially reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to carboxylic acid derivatives which are obtained by reacting an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride (A) with a hydrophobic reactive component (B) that contains at least one group reacting to carboxylic acid anhydrides and has an average molecular weight of 200 to 50,000 Dalton. The inventive carboxylic acid derivatives are excellent as a substance for preventing efflorescences on surfaces of hardened cementitious construction materials and/or hydrophobizing the corresponding cementitious systems. Furthermore, said cementitious products absorb considerably smaller amounts of water as a result of the inventive additives such that frost damage and premature rusting of the reinforcing steel can be significantly reduced.

Abstract: The invention describes amphiphilic polymer compounds which have been prepared by a) reacting a di-, tri- or tetraglycidyl compound (A) with an optionally unsaturated reactive component (B) consisting of C8-C28-fatty acid, a C8-C28-alcohol or a secondary C8-C28-amine, and then b) allowing the reaction product from stage a) to react with an aliphatic or aromatic polyisocyanate compound (C) and finally c) reacting the reaction product from stage b) with a polyalkylene oxide compound (D) of the general formula (I) in which R1 is H or a linear or branched and optionally unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 12 C atoms, R2 is a linear or branched and optionally unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 30 C atoms or phenyl, m is from 0 to 250, n is from 3 to 350 and x is from 1 to 12, and the ethylene oxide or higher alkylene oxide units can be arbitrarily distributed in the polyalkylene oxide compound (D).