Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft

Bergwerksverband Gmbh

Didier Engineering Gmbh

Perfluktiv Technik Ag

Otto Abel

Dietrich Wagener

Christian Koch

Hans-Josef Giertz

Horst Fach

Erich Sundermann

Hans Reye

Werner Eisenhut

Alfred E Behrmann

Peter Sauder

Bhubaneswar Sarangi

Herbert Gottschlich

Joachim Hoppe

Gunter Serwatzky

Active coke produced from pit coal and production process thereof

Apparatus for treating gases produced from the conversion of coal, e.g., from carbonization of coal, to remove the undesirable constituents thereof is disclosed. The method involves passing the hot raw gases from the coal conversation process over a coke bed at a temperature of more than 1100.degree. K. The coke bed is located in the coal gasification reactor and is provided with an ordinary air supply. The subject method achieves a significant reduction in undesirable constituents in the gas and eliminates the need for auxiliary gas treatment systems, oxygen production systems and the like.

Apparatus for treating gases produced from coal

Recovering liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons from solid raw materials containing hydrocarbons such as oil shale or coal by treating with a solvent oil at a temperature of 610.degree. K.-690.degree. K. and under pressure in the presence of hydrogen. The oil solvent is introduced into a heated vessel in vapor form. The raw material is introduced into the heated reaction vessel at a temperature below the condensation temperature of the oil to cause the oil vapor to condense at the surface of the raw material. The reaction vessel is heated to cause the raw material leaving the reaction vessel to be at a temperature above the condensation temperature of the oil at the pressure prevailing in the reaction vessel.

Recovery of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons from raw materials

An infrared heat-image camera is aimed at a hot surface not perpendicular thereto but instead in a direction almost parallel to the surface, presenting to the camera a heat image of the surface not cartesian but instead highly distorted in accordance with the laws of optical perspective. The camera's output data is correspondingly non-cartesian and distorted with respect to organization and content, but the data is applied to a computer which transforms it to cartesian organization and corrects content, and then a corrected cartesian display is generated, simulating the heat image which would be presented to a perpendicularly aimed camera. Alternatively, the camera's scanning mechanisms are programmed to follow a non-cartesian scanning schedule, the geometry of which itself causes the camera output data to have the cartesian organization of a perpendicularly aimed camera. Preferably, the scanning schedule is modified to effect transformation to cartesian organization in only one direction, and transformation to cartesian organization in the other direction is computer-performed.

Determination of temperature distributions on awkwardly located or

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Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Otto Abel