Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for the surface cleaning of workpieces, e.g. the degreasing, scale-removal and rust removal from a metallic surface, especially so as to produce a bright, clean and relatively smooth surface to receive a coating, positions the workpiece in a fluidized bed of an abrasive, such as particle of corundum or quartz sand, and directs fine jets of gas at the surface from nozzles spaced therefrom within the fluidized bed.
Abstract:
An Al-Mn alloy which can be brazed and enamelled, has a high resistance to corrosion and in a completely recrystallized state has an ultimate tensile stress of at least 150 N/mm.sup.2 ; a process for producing such an Al-Mn alloy by forming a melt comprising 0.8 to 2 weight percent manganese, 1.40 to 3 weight percent silicon, 0.2 to 1 weight percent iron, 0 to 0.2 weight percent copper, 0 to 0.2 weight percent magnesium, balance aluminum and in a total up to 0.2 by weight inevitable impurities which are due to the manufacture, casting said melt to form an ingot, annealing said ingot to 400.degree. to 620.degree. C. for 2 to 20 hours, hot-rolling and cold-rolling said ingot to final dimensions of the semifinished product, and subsequently annealing the semifinished product at a temperature above 450.degree. C.
Abstract:
The sulfur-containing roasting gases of an ore-roasting plant are cooled in a waste-heat boiler, which produces steam, and then are subjected to particle removal in an electrostatic precipitator or cyclone. The gases are then scrubbed with recirculated aqueous sulfur acid and the gas is then passed through an electrostatic precipitator before being supplied to a plant for the contact process production of sulfur acid. According to the invention, the process is improved by condensing water from the gas in an indirect cooler between the scrubber and the final electrostatic precipitator while water or aqueous sulfur acid is sprayed into the gas upstream of the indirect gas cooler to augment the heat transfer from the gas to the cooled wall thereof.
Abstract:
A process for directly reducing iron oxide-containing materials to provide sponge iron by heating said iron oxide-containing materials in a rotary kiln while employing a solid carbonaceous reducing agent having a high content of volatile combustible components, wherein oxygen-containing gases are injected into the rotary kiln at a controlled rate through shell pipes into the free kiln space and the charge is moved through the rotary kiln countercurrently to the flow of the kiln atmosphere, is described. The invention lies in injecting oxygen-containing gases at controlled rates through nozzle blocks into the charge disposed over said nozzle blocks and in injecting oxygen-containing gases at controlled rates through shell pipes into the free kiln space in that region of the heating-up zone defined by a point along the length of the heating-up zone where ignitable particles of the solid reducing agent first appear and a second point before the reducing zone.
Abstract:
A process for removing phenols from waste water resulting from the gasification or carbonization of coal and containing CO.sub.2, H.sub.2 S and NH.sub.3, comprising mixing the waste water with a low-boiling organic solvent, separating the mixture into a solvent layer and an aqueous layer, stripping off from the aqueous layer under superatmospheric pressure the vapors of CO.sub.2, H.sub.2 S and organic solvent contained therein, then stripping off from the aqueous layer the NH.sub.3 contained therein leaving a refined aqueous product layer suitable for discharge, scrubbing the stripped vapors under superatmospheric pressure with a portion of the cold refined product to remove organic solvent contained therein, condensing part of the solvent and separating it under superatmospheric pressure, and scrubbing the remaining acid gases still containing ammonia and solvent with recirculated cooled raw phenol to remove the ammonia and solvent.
Abstract:
In a process for producing a fuel gas from a solid fuel by a gasification of solid fuel under a pressure of about 15-100 bars by a treatment with steam and a gas which contains free oxygen, cooling the raw gas to a temperature of about 150.degree.-200.degree. C. and saturating it with water vapor, removing condensate which has formed so that the raw gas contains hydrocarbons having a boiling range from about 20.degree. to 400.degree. C. in an amount of about 10-100 g per standard m.sup.3 of dry gas and has a CO:H.sub.2 O volume ratio of about 0.8-2, and subjecting the raw gas to a shift conversion, the improvement which comprises dividing the raw gas into first and second partial streams in a ratio of about 1:10 to 1:1, feeding the first partial stream with a surplus of water vapor to a first shift conversion stage at an inlet temperature of about 280.degree.-450.degree. C., and passing through a second shift conversion stage a mixture of effluent gas from the first shift conversion stage and at least part of the second partial stream of raw gas at a temperature of about 300.degree.-500.degree. C., while maintaining a pressure of about 15-100 bars in the shift conversion stages. Advantageously water vapor is added to the raw gas entering the first shift conversion stage in at least about 70% of the stoichiometric amount required for shift conversion of all the carbon monoxide contained in the entire raw gas.
Abstract:
In scrubbing fuel gases or synthesis gas, absorption is improved by using simple oxygen containing water soluble organic compounds such as the lower alcohols, butanols, or water soluble lower ethers.
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for carrying out an exothermic process in which a combustible-containing solid (e.g. coal shale, pyrite or limestone in combination with fuel oil) are burned in a fluidized-bed reactor with primary and secondary streams of oxygen-containing combustion-sustaining gas (in a volume ratio of 1:20 to 2:1) supplied at different levels so that the primary gas acts as the fluidizing gas. The gas velocities and rate of gas feeds are controlled to provide a mean suspension density above the secondary gas inlet of 10 to 40 kg/m.sup.3. The major portion of solid feed is introduced into the space below the secondary gas inlet which is maintained substantially free of internal fixtures and the effluent gases are separated from the entrained solids which are recycled to the bed. Solids withdrawn from the bed are cooled in a fluidized-bed cooler and the temperature of the bed is maintained constant by the controlled recirculation of cooled solids thereto from the cooler. The gas heated in the cooler is fed to the bed as the secondary gas.
Abstract:
A process for treating a residue from the sulfuric acid leaching of roasted zinc blende, comprising(a) leaching the residue in a single stage with sulfuric acid and a metal sulfide supplied in a quantity sufficient for transforming the iron into divalent iron, the temperature being maintained between about 60.degree. C and the boiling point,(b) heating the mass to a temperature above the melting point of sulfur, separating a first fine-grained residue of low zinc and iron contents and high lead content, and separating a coarse-grained residue containing sulfur, compounds of iron and any excess metal sulfide from (a),(c) adjusting the pH of the residual solution to at most about 2, at a temperature between about 80.degree. C and the boiling point adding zinc dust thereby to precipitate copper and separating the precipitate,(d) adjusting the pH to about 4 to 5 and separating the precipitate which forms, and(e) oxidizing the residual solution to precipitate iron as hematite, and separating the hematite from the purified zinc-containing solution.
Abstract:
Weighting material for a drilling fluid, e.g. a drilling mud, is produced by firing iron oxide solids, e.g. iron oxide ores, calcined pyritic ores or iron-oxide-containing products of other metallurgical processes, in a circulating fluidized bed or rotary furnace at a temperature of 1210.degree. C to 1400.degree. C in an oxidizing atmosphere in which the oxygen content is augmented to transform magnetitic components to oxides of lower magnetic susceptibility. The product is then cooled slowly at least until it reaches a temperature of 780.degree. C, also in an oxidizing atmosphere. The weighting materials have extremely low magnetic susceptibility and thus can be used without interfering with inductive monitoring of the position of the drill string.