Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Ernst Dietrich

Werner Hoerauf

Ernst Guenther

Eckart Neumann

Eberhard Schaefer

Ernst Kissel

Hermann Linge

Guenter Valentin

Hans Pirzer

Ernst Kissel, Deceased

A vertical cylinder for drying and heating granules which includes an inlet at the top of the cylinder, a conically tapered outlet at the bottom of the cylinder, a rotatable screening ring beneath the inlet, a chute beneath the screening ring and a scraper above the ring inlets for gases in the downward extending section of the cylinder, a shell and tube heat exchanger located coaxially in the bottom quarter of the cylinder, a horizontally movable grid as flow control device below the heat exchange and a discharge zone below the grid.

Apparatus for drying and heating nylon granules

A process for achieving a uniform flow profile of very viscous liquids when flowing through tubes or reaction chambers, wherein the very viscous liquid is passed through annular spaces extending concentrically with increasing diameter over the entire cross-section of the tubes or reaction chambers and having the same depth in the direction of flow, and this procedure is repeated once or several times, the annular spaces being staggered with respect to each other as viewed in the direction of flow, and an apparatus consisting of a combination of two or more discs arranged at axial intervals within a tube transversely to the direction of flow, each disc consisting of a plurality of ring-shaped bands of increasing diameter, the bands being arranged freely of one another and concentrically at intervals on a grid supporting means to provide correspondingly concentric open spaces between the bands over the entire cross-section of the tube, with the walls of the bands running parallel to the direction of flow, and the bands of the separate discs being staggered with respect to each other as viewed in the direction of flow.

Process and apparatus for achieving a uniform flow profile

In a process for drying and heating nylon granules, in which the granules flow downwards through a vertical zone, hot inert gases which are free from molecular oxygen are passed in counter-current through the granules and the cooled granules are then intermittently discharged in part-streams, the improvement wherein the wet granules, or a suspension of the granules in water, are fed into the zone at the top, the granules are deposited as a layer, the water is led away, the layer of granules is then transferred into the next-lower part of the zone, the granules are there allowed to flow under gravity downwards through the zone, and inert gases which are free from molecular oxygen are passed in countercurrent upwards through the granules at from 70 to 200.degree. C, with the proviso that the inert gas, before leaving the zone, is passed through the deposited layer of granules, in the lower part of the zone the granules are divided into part-streams over the entire cross-section of the zone, these part-streams are cooled and the granules are passed intermittently, but simultaneously over the entire cross-section of the zone, into a discharge zone, with the proviso that the discharge zone is only partially filled, as well as an apparatus for carrying out the improved process.

Process and apparatus for drying and heating nylon granules

An extraction tube for the continuous removal of low molecular weight components of polylactam granules by means of hot water by the countercurrent principle of operation, the water being fed upwardly and the granules downwardly, the tube being provided with inlets and outlets for the granules and the water and exhibiting baffles within the tube, wherein there is provided, within the tube, a heat exchanger which

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