Abstract: A method in which activated carbon having a bulk density of at least 0.35, a particle size of 5 to 40 mesh and a water content of 50 to 120% is regenerated by being passed successively through drying, burning and reviving treatment zones of a vertical columnar furnace, which zones are maintained within temperature gradients such as to prevent explosion and oxidation or destruction of the carbon due to overheating while the carbon descends through the zones and is heated by a high temperature combustion gas flowing upwardly through the treatment zones at a rate not exceeding the minimum rate of fluidization of the descending carbon.The regenerating apparatus or furnace has gas burners mounted thereon to deliver combustion gas tangentially to a header and then to distributing ports arranged circumferentially around and internally of a columnar bed of carbon being regenerated to provide uniform temperature distribution across the bed.

Abstract: An oven for heating tubular parisons to a target or orientation temperature. A first plenum on one side of the oven and a second plenum on the opposite side of the oven, both exhaust to a common chamber disposed therebetween. The parisons are heated by a high velocity fluid above the target temperature in the zone defined by the first plenum and the chamber and the parisons are tempered by a lower velocity fluid at the target temperature in the zone defined by the second plenum and the chamber.

Abstract: A method of baking aluminum reduction cell cathode blocks to achieve increased heating rates.

Abstract: In the calcination of petroleum coke in a rotary kiln, procedure wherein air is controllably supplied internally of the kiln to burn the removed volatiles, as by selection or adjustment of the amount of such air and of the speed of coke travel down the kiln, so that all or nearly all of the heat for calcining the coke is provided by such combustion, and so that a suitably high temperature is reached for effective calcination at an efficiently large feed rate of coke, a special feature being to maintain a significantly long travel time of the coke from a region of intense calcining activity to the product discharge end of the kiln. High production rates, of coke calcined well and uniformly, are economically attained, with ease of control and with unusual stability of kiln operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing granulated porous corundum having a homogeneous porous structure with a total pore volume of 0.3 to 1.0 cm.sup.3 /g and predominant pore size of 5000 to 30000 A. The method comprises subjecting the granules of active alumina or aluminum hydroxide having a porous structure with a total pore volume of 0.3 to 1.0 cm.sup.3 /g and pore size of 20 to 5000 A to heat treatment by increasing the temperature from 20.degree.C to 700.degree.C during a period of at least 0.5 hour, thereafter the granules are heat treated at a temperature range of from 700.degree.C to 1000.degree.C for at least 0.5 hour, and then at a temperature range of from 1000.degree.C to 1400.degree.C for at least 0.5 hour, the heat treatment in the temperature range of from 20.degree.C to 1000.degree.C being carried out in an atmosphere of hydrogen fluoride which is present in amounts of from 0.01 to 2.0 percent of the weight of active alumina.