Patents by Inventor Stephan Kuhnke

Stephan Kuhnke 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: 6524099
    Abstract: In order to create, for cement clinker production lines, a calcinator that is connected upstream from the rotary tubular kiln and is equipped with two firings, which enables on the one hand a high-grade calcinated raw meal and on the other hand an exhaust gas with very low NOx emissions, as well as a burning that is as complete as possible of remaining CO-containing NOx reduction zones, it is provided that a combustion point with sub-stoichiometric fuel combustion be arranged both in the rotary kiln exhaust gas ascending line and also in the cooler outgoing air line which form a first and section portion, respectively, of the calcinator and that downstream in a flow direction of the suspension, additional combustion air discharges into the calcinator which combustion air is branched off from the tertiary air line coming from the clinker cooler via at least one branch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Hubert Ramesohl, Michael Brachthäuser, Andreas Hand, Stephan Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 6461153
    Abstract: A system for the manufacture of cement clinker from cement raw meal in which the off-gases of the cement clinker production line not only undergo denitrification but also undergo desulfurization, so that even sulfur-rich raw materials and fuels can be employed without exceeding the prevailing pollutant emission limits. A substream of the oversize material (30) discharged from the mixing chamber (29) of the precalcination stage (16) as solid sorbent may be combined with the off-gas (22) and/or with a partial gas discharge (38) of the rotary kiln off-gas in order to convert the sulfur oxides contained in those off-gases to calcium sulfate (34), which is subsequently separated from the system off-gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Carsten Eckert, Andreas Hand, Norbert Streit, Stephan Kuhnke
  • Publication number: 20020071801
    Abstract: A system for the manufacture of cement clinker from cement raw meal in which the off-gases of the cement clinker production line not only undergo denitrification but also undergo desulfurization, so that even sulfur-rich raw materials and fuels can be employed without exceeding the prevailing pollutant emission limits. A substream of the oversize material (30) discharged from the mixing chamber (29) of the precalcination stage (16) as solid sorbent may be combined with the off-gas (22) and/or with a partial gas discharge (38) of the rotary kiln off-gas in order to convert the sulfur oxides contained in those off-gases to calcium sulfate (34), which is subsequently separated from the system off-gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Carsten Eckert, Andreas Hand, Norbert Streit, Stephan Kuhnke
  • Publication number: 20010038989
    Abstract: In order to create, for cement clinker production lines, a calcinator that is connected upstream from the rotary tubular kiln and is equipped with two firings, which enables on the one hand a high-grade calcinated raw meal and on the other hand an exhaust gas with very low NOx emissions, as well as a burning that is as complete as possible of remaining CO-containing NOx reduction zones, it is provided that a combustion point with sub-stoichiometric fuel combustion be arranged both in the rotary kiln exhaust gas ascending line and also in the cooler outgoing air line which form a first and section portion, respectively, of the calcinator and that downstream in a flow direction of the suspension, additional combustion air discharges into the calcinator which combustion air is branched off from the tertiary air line coming from the clinker cooler via at least one branch line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Hubert Ramesohl, Michael Brachthauser, Andreas Hand, Stephan Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 6287110
    Abstract: In order to create a calcinator preceding the rotary tubular kiln and equipped with secondary firings in which inert fuels that are difficult to ignite or, respectively, difficult to burn (secondary fuels) can be beneficially disposed of by burning for the purpose of calcination of the cement raw meal and a complete burn-out of CO gas strands and other fuel constituents, as well as an exhaust gas with low Nox, are nonetheless assured for cement clinker production lines, the tertiary air channel in the region of the calcination unit is fashioned as a combustion chamber that expands the channel cross-section and through which the suspension flows from bottom to top. Tertiary air having a torsion component as well as an easily ignitable fuel is centrally introduced at the lower end of the combustion chamber, whereby a high-temperature zone that extends centrally from bottom to top and has a hot core flame proceeds from this burning location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Hubert Ramesohl, Michael Brachthäuser, Andreas Hand, Stephan Kuhnke
  • Patent number: 6254382
    Abstract: In order to create, for cement clinker production lines, a calcinator that is connected upstream from the rotary tubular kiln and is equipped with two firings, which enables on the one hand a high-grade calcinated raw meal and on the other hand an exhaust gas with very low NOx emissions, as well as a burning that is as complete as possible of remaining CO-containing NOx reduction zones, it is provided that a combustion point with sub-stoichiometric fuel combustion be arranged both in the rotary kiln exhaust gas ascending line and also in the cooler outgoing air line which form a first and section portion, respectively, of the calcinator and that downstream in a flow direction of the suspension, additional combustion air discharges into the calcinator which combustion air is branched off from the tertiary air line coming from the clinker cooler via at least one branch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
    Inventors: Hubert Ramesohl, Michael Brachthäuser, Andreas Hand, Stephan Kuhnke