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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1994
Ralf Schneider, Mettmann, DE;
Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft, Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
The invention is directed to a process and apparatus for preheating and transferring scrap into smelting furnaces for steelmaking or the like. The scrap is preheated by energy contained in the waste gases from the smelting furnace, which energy comprises sensible heat and chemically bonded heat in the combustible portions of the waste gases. The furnace-waste gases are guided to a waste-gas combustion chamber incorporated in a waste-gas outlet line and are burned therein with air to generate hot combustion gases which are fed to the scrap in the receptacles at a preheating station and then sucked out via an exhaust fan. After the scrap reaches the desired temperature, the receptacle containing the preheated scrap is removed from the preheating station so that the preheated scrap may be transferred to the smelting furnace. During this receptacle changeover process, the hot combustion gases are rerouted to another scrap-filled receptacle at the preheating station using a pipeline arrangement.
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