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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2004
Gaston F. V. Vangilbergen, Gelsenkirchen, DE;
Harry F. Werner, Essen, DE;
Gaston F. V. Vangilbergen, Gelsenkirchen, DE;
Harry F. Werner, Essen, DE;
VTA Verfahrenstechnik und Automatisierung GmbH, Gelsenkirchen, DE;
Abstract
A longitudinal sealing (), which, as a rule, extends below the rotating tube (), is proposed to increase the heating efficiency in a rotary tubular kiln, in which a rotating tube () is surrounded, like a bowl, by heating tunnel () and is indirectly heated by a heating medium. It is designed in the shape of a separation wall between the entry side () and the exit side () for the heating medium in the heating tunnel and consists of a rigid part () and a flexible part (), situated thereon and adaptable to the rotating tube profile.