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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Khs Gmbh, Dortmund, DE;
Inventor:
Hilmar Fickert, Kriftel, DE;
Assignee:
KHS GmbH, Dortmund, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 9/0804 (2013.01); B08B 9/0813 (2013.01); B08B 2203/007 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for treating a keg's interior comprises first and second tanks that maintain treatment medium at respective first and second temperatures, a first heat-exchanger, and a waste-air line. The first heat-exchanger is arranged upstream of a second-tank inlet for using heat recovered from the treatment medium through heat exchange with a heat-transfer medium to pre-heat treatment medium that is being conducted to the second tank. The heat-transfer medium includes any one or more of treatment medium conducted out of a keg interior after a treatment step, treatment medium in the first tank, and waste air in the waste-air line.