Monday, January 2, 2012

Holcim patent: using waste heat from clinker cooler


Switzerland based Holcim Technology Ltd filed patent application for method for treating alternative, carbon-containing, low-caloric waste materials for use in furnace systems. The inventors are Ernst Frank and Obrist Albert.

According to the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, "In a method for treating alternative, carbon-containing, low- caloric waste materials for use in furnace systems, in particular rotary tubular kilns for the production of clinker, the carbon-containing, alternative fuels are subjected to high- temperature gasification under anoxic conditions at temperatures above 1000C, wherein water, water vapor or CO2 is injected to ensure a reaction forming CO and H2. The waste heat from a clinker cooler is used for the high-temperature gasification."

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