Carad, Inc.

Dravo Corporation

Cardd, Inc.

David W Coate

Joseph R Quigley

Boyd E Cass

Joseph G Selmeczi

A process for the dewatering of fine granular material is disclosed. During compression of the material, fluid is expressed and a small percentage of the material is intentionally permitted to escape through a self-cleaning opening in the apparatus. By maintaining the smallest dimension of the opening in the range of one to five times the diameter of the largest particle in the material, the opening remain essentially clear of any material which could cause plugging.

Process for dewatering fine granular materials

A method of recovering iron-bearing flue dust collected as a by-product in wet sludge or dry form from metallurgical processes for recycling. The moisture content of the collected flue dust is adjusted to a level at which the wet dust is of a plastic consistency such that it will extrude into cohesive agglomerates (generally 8 - 16% moisture content). If the dust is collected in a dry state, moisture is added; if collected in a wet state, the moisture content is adjusted by the addition of a complimentary dry material. Hydraulic cement is added to the mixture in the range of approximately 4 - 15% by weight and the mixture is extruded into cohesive agglomerates and thereafter cured for subsequent charging to metallurgical furnaces.

Method of recovering iron-bearing by-product flue dust

A coke agglomerate for use in metallurgical furnaces and the like which is manufactured by mixing by weight 30-70% metallurgical coke screenings, 5-15% hydraulic cement, and 15-55% of at least one finely divided calcium-bearing material selected from the group consisting of calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, and calcium fluoride, with sufficient water to form a plastic agglomerable mixture. The mixture is then agglomerated by molding or extrusion to an adequately large agglomerate size and then cured.

Coke agglomerate and method of utilizing same

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of recovering by-product fines, such as coal fines, by-product fines created in the manufacture and processing of metals or any very finely divided substance which may be of value when recovered to a usable form and which may be naturally found in the form of a silt or as the result of the manufacturing process, from a slurry or sludge thereof. The slurry mass is first treated to dissociate it into discreet units, if required, for further treatment to recover the fines contained within the discreet units of the slurry in the form of a usable end product. The discreet units of the dissociated slurry are conveyed through a rotary-driven impeller feed conveyor and simultaneously a hot gas such as air or superheated steam is flowed through the conveyor in contact with the slurry segments or discreet units. This combined action of the rotary impeller feed and the flow of hot air uniformly breaks up and dries the discreet slurry units into particles of desired moisture content. If additional drying is required, the present invention teaches the use of a second rotary-driven impeller feed conveyor in which the extruded agglomerates are conveyed while again simultaneously flowing a hot gas through this second conveyor in contact with the agglomerate to break up or size and further dry the agglomerates to a desired degree.

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

David W Coate