Abstract:
A rotary kiln for reducing phosphate ore in kiln phosphoric acid process, comprising a kiln body, a kiln head box, a kiln tail box and a driving device for driving the rotation of the kiln body, wherein a fuel burner is provided at the kiln head, a feed pipe and an outlet flue connected to an external hydration tower are provided at the kiln tail box, the upper part of the kiln body is provided with no air pipe, the outlet flue is provided in the radius range of the kiln body with the axis of the rotary kiln as a center, and the fume conveying direction in the outlet flue is substantially parallel to the axis direction of the rotary kiln or has an included angle of less than 45° thereto. The rotary kiln can effectively mitigate the phenomenon of ring forming in the kiln tail of the rotary kiln.
Abstract:
A method is described for reducing NOx emissions and improving energy efficiency during mineral processing in a rotary kiln. The method comprises injection of air with high velocity/high kinetic energy into the kiln to reduce or eliminate stratification of kiln gases. The method can be applied to mix gases in a rotary kiln vessel or in a preheater/precalciner vessel.
Abstract:
The invention provides a raw materials feeding apparatus capable of uniformly dispersing and feeding into a furnace agglomerated raw materials that are likely to undergo dusting, deformation and mutual adhesion. In a raw material feeding apparatus for a rotary hearth furnace, for feeding raw materials to a rotary hearth furnace by using a flat belt conveyor, the invention employs a construction in which a scraper for guiding the raw materials on the flat belt conveyor to a side surface of the flat belt conveyor is arranged obliquely to a traveling direction of the flat belt conveyor. Preferably, the scraper is arranged in such a manner as to guide the raw materials to both sides of the flat belt conveyor.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is described for environmentally sound usage of combustible hazardous waste as supplemental fuel in operating rotary cement kilns. The apparatus comprises an open port in the rotary vessel at a point where during cement kiln operation the in-process mineral material is in a calcining state and where kiln gas temperatures are sufficient to decompose volatile components of the waste fuel. A drop tube extending from the port into the kiln is provided to prevent in-process mineral from escaping through the port during rotation of the rotary vessel. Combustible solids are delivered through the port under the force of gravity and air is continuously drawn into the rotary vessel through the open port during kiln operation. The apparatus and method allow efficient usage of combustible solid waste as a supplemental fuel for cement kiln operation.
Abstract:
Waste tires are disposed of in a cement-manufacturing or other mineral-burning process by introducing the tires into the hot gas stream at at least one point between the mineral-inlet end of a rotary kiln and the lowermost cyclone of an associated preheater system, e.g. into the gas stream within a precalciner vessel or riser duct, the tires being maintained in contact with the hot gas for a sufficient period to effect at least partial combustion of the tires. As an alternative, the tires may be introduced into a Lepol grate preheater.
Abstract:
A rotary, continuous pyrolytic conversion system converts solid hydrocarbon containing feedstocks into gases, liquid hydrocarbons and char. A converter drum is contained within an outer drum which is in substantially air-tight relationship with an injector for introducing the feedstock in the form of bales and with a discharge chute for the solid products of pyrolysis. A casing around the outer stationary drum defines an oven chamber which is heated by combustion products. A rod extends into the injection end of the converter drum for supporting scrapers against the inner periphery of the converter drum. A crusher bar is carried in the drum at the discharge end thereof and crushes the solid products. A second pyrolysis reactor may receive the solid pyrolysis products and be operative at higher temperature than the first converter to destroy chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Abstract:
An apparatus is provided for charging containerized fuel, particularly combustible hazardous waste homogenates, through a wall of a rotating kiln with minimal perturbation of mineral processing conditions. During kiln rotation fuel modules are loaded into the apparatus and charged into the kiln through a port in the kiln cylinder wall and onto the contained mineral bed. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus includes a device for actuating a port closure and a drop tube extending from the port into the kiln cylinder and positioned so that in-process mineral material does not contact the port closure during rotation of the kiln cylinder.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for pyroprocessing raw material having a reaction temperature and containing moisture into sinter. The apparatus has a rotary kiln adapted to receive the raw material pellets at one end of the rotary kiln and to move the raw material pellets along a path of movement in the rotary kiln to the other end of the rotary kiln. Heating means are adjacent the other end of the rotary kiln for directing a heated fluid through the rotary kiln, the rotary kiln having a drying means adjacent the one end of the rotary kiln for heating the raw material pellets by the heated fluid to substantially remove the moisture in the raw material pellets. Cooling means communicate with the drying means for mixing a cooling fluid with the heated fluid to limit the temperature in the drying means below the temperature at which the raw material pellets explode due to rapid heating to a deleteriously high temperature. The rotary kiln has a preheating zone adjacent the drying means further along the path of movement for heating the raw material pellets to a temperature below the reaction temperature. The rotary kiln has a reaction zone adjacent the other end of the rotary kiln for heating the raw material pellets above the reaction temperature to pyroprocess the raw material pellets into the sinter. Restriction means are between the preheating zone and the reaction zone for damming a reservoir of the raw material pellets adjacent the restriction means so that the reservoir of the raw material pellets is protected from the direct radiation of the heated fluid and the temperature of the reservoir of raw material pellets remains unaffected by instantaneous changes in the temperature of the heated fluid, the restriction means being operable to meter minimum layers of the raw material pellets into the reaction zone so that the minimum layers of the raw material pellets are individually and rapidly heated to the reaction temperature by the heated fluid and the raw material pellets are converted into sinter. The method includes the steps of receiving the raw material pellets at one end of a rotary kiln and moving the raw material pellets along a path of movement in the rotary kiln to the other end of the rotary kiln; directing a heated fluid through the rotary kiln; heating the raw material pellets by the heated fluid adjacent the one end of the rotary kiln to substantially remove the moisture in the raw material pellets; mixing a cooling fluid with the heated fluid to limit the temperature (during the removal of the moisture) below the temperature at which the raw material pellets explode due to rapid heating to a deleteriously high temperature; heating the raw material pellets in a preheating zone of the rotary kiln further along the path of movement to a temperature below the reaction temperature; damming a reservoir of the raw material pellets adjacent the preheating zone and further along the path of movement so that the reservoir of the raw material pellets is protected from the direct radiation of the heated fluid and the temperature of the reservoir of the raw material pellets remains unaffected by instantaneous changes in the temperature of the heated fluid; metering minimum layers of the raw material pellets adjacent the preheating zone and further along the path of movement into a reaction zone of the rotary kiln adjacent the other end of the kiln; and heating raw material pellets individually and rapidly in the reaction zone of the rotary kiln to indivIdually and rapidly heat the raw material pellets to the reaction temperature by the heated fluid, thus converting the raw material pellets into the sinter.