The invention is concerned with a method for producing a cement comprising milled cement clinker and a supplementary cementitious material, wherein the method comprises the steps of: producing the milled cement clinker by a clinkerization process, comprising the steps of calcining and subsequently milling a limestone-based raw material; producing the supplementary cementitious material by calcining a raw material of the supplementary cementitious material at a temperature of less than 980° C. and subsequently milling the calcined raw material of the supplementary cementitious material, wherein the raw material of the supplementary cementitious material has an average particle size of 1 to 300 mm; and blending the milled cement clinker and the supplementary cementitious material; wherein the method is a continuous process comprising the step of calcining the raw material of the supplementary cementitious material in a kiln with a separate heating unit and/or combustion unit. Further, the invention is concerned with a method for producing a cement comprising milled cement clinker and a supplementary cementitious material, wherein the method comprises the steps of: producing the milled cement clinker by a clinkerization process, comprising the steps of calcining and subsequently milling a limestone-based raw material; producing the supplementary cementitious material by calcining a raw material of the supplementary cementitious material at a temperature of less than 980° C. and subsequently milling the calcined raw material of the supplementary cementitious material, wherein the raw material of the supplementary cementitious material has an average particle size of 1 to 300 mm, wherein at least 5 wt % of the particles have a particle size of above 4.75 mm; and blending the milled cement clinker and the supplementary cementitious material. The invention is also concerns a cement comprising milled cement clinker and a supplementary cementitious material, wherein the supplementary cementitious material comprises an amorphous constituent of more than 30 wt % as measured by XRD, wherein the supplementary cementitious material comprises less than 70 wt % of inert components selected from the group comprising mullite, spinel, feldspar, diopside, mica, or combinations thereof, and wherein the color of the cement in the range of 130-160, 130-160, 120-160, wherein the measurement of the cement color is conducted by a RGB2 colorimeter, wherein the colors are referenced to a RGB scale of 0 to 255.

A process for producing graphite in a vertical graphitization furnace having at least one process chamber that bounds a heating zone, a temperature of 2200° C. to 3200° C. is generated in the heating zone, particulate graphitizable material is supplied to the process chamber through an inlet, graphitizable material is conveyed through the heating zone of the process chamber, in which it is graphitized to graphite, and graphite obtained is removed from the process chamber through an outlet. In some variants, graphitizable material wherein the particles have a particle size of less than 3 mm is used, and/or, a material column is formed throughout the heating zone of a particular process chamber, wherein graphitizable material, after being supplied through the inlet from the top, trickles through an intake zone of the process chamber onto the material column, and/or, a material column is formed in a stationary heating zone of a particular process chamber encompassed by the heating zone, wherein graphitizable material, after being supplied through the intake from the top, trickles through a drop heating zone likewise encompassed by the heating zone onto the material column, and/or, graphitizable material in one or more material vessels is conveyed through a particular process chamber and through the heating zone thereof. Also specified is a vertical graphitization furnace optimized.

One object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can significantly reduce the amount of warming gas generated and suppress the generation of soot during combustion. The present invention provides an apparatus (10) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, including a burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, a vertical spheroidizing furnace (15), an ammonia supply source (12), an oxygen supply source (13), an ammonia supply line (L1) located between the ammonia supply source (12) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, and an oxygen supply line (L2) located between the oxygen supply source (13) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles.

One object of the present invention is to provide a burner for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can efficiently melt and spheroidize even organic powder with a large particle size distribution. The present invention provides a burner for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, including; a raw material powder supply path configured to supply inorganic powder as raw material powder; a first fuel gas supply path (3A) configured to supply a first fuel gas; and a first combustion-supporting gas supply path (4A) configured to supply a first combustion-supporting gas; wherein the raw material powder supply path includes: a first supply path (2A) configured to extend in an axial direction of the burner (1); a first collision wall (2D) configured to be located at the top of the first supply path (2A); a plurality of second supply paths (2B) configured to be branched from the top of the first supply path (2A), and extend radially from the center of the burner (1); one or more dispersion chambers (2C) configured to be located at the top of the second supply path (2B), and have a space in which the cross-sectional area is larger than the cross-sectional area in the second supply path (2B); and one or more raw material ejection holes (2a) configured to communicate with the dispersion chamber (2C).

A furnace system including an outer shell which comprises a top flange, an elongated body portion, and a bottom flange, wherein the outer shell is a pressure vessel, with no penetrations in the elongated body portion; a heater assembly which comprises (i) a single-piece annular shaped insulation layer, and (ii) a plurality of heaters embedded in the insulation layer, wherein the heater assembly is disposed within the elongated body portion of the outer shell; and an innermost layer disposed within the annular-shaped insulation layer, wherein the innermost layer is a baffle tube configured to force a natural convective flow, wherein each of the plurality of heaters is individually controllable and the plurality of heaters are configured to heat different zones within the furnace to different temperatures and/or at different rates. The system may be used to heat treat magnet materials, such as those formed of Bi-2212, therein.

The present invention relates to a device for heat-treating solid material, in particular in granular form, wherein the device comprises a kiln and an external heat generator, wherein said kiln comprises at least one sloped sliding surface on which a bed of said solid material slides down within said kiln due to gravity while a hot gas generated by the external heat generator is led through said solid material to heat said solid material to a desired temperature in order to change the substance properties of said solid material. According to the invention, said external heat generator for generating said hot gas is external to said kiln, wherein said kiln further comprises at least one kiln gas inlet through which said hot gas enters said kiln, such that the necessary temperature of said hot gas can be controlled precisely in that said hot gas is generated in said external heat generator, ensuring that the solid material does not experience temperatures above an allowed maximum temperature, and further such that the solid material is not exposed to radiation from a burner.

It is an object of the present invention to allow a furnace core tube used for a heat treatment apparatus of a porous glass base material to be used for a long period of time.

A heat treatment apparatus includes: a furnace core tube made of silica glass; a heater provided adjacent to the furnace core tube, the heater heating a heating region; and a moving mechanism supporting a porous glass base material and relatively moving the porous glass base material with respect to the heater in the furnace core tube in a state where the heating region is heated by the heater to make the porous glass base material pass through the heating region. The heat treatment apparatus includes a thin-walled part provided in a region adjacent to a portion located in the heating region in the furnace core tube, the thin-walled part having a thickness of glass less than that of the portion located in the heating region.

Invention relates to a vertical ring shaft kiln comprising a vertical burning region (1); an intermediate sintering zone (Z.sub.3) surrounded by a first wall (10) and an opposite second wall (20) at the burning region (1) to obtain a clinker from a particulate raw material flowing downwards direction.

A method for calcining and cooling material such as carbonate rocks may be employed in a parallel-flow regenerative shaft kiln that has two shafts, which are operated alternately as a calcining shaft and as a regenerative shaft. Material flows through a preheating zone, a calcining zone, and a cooling zone to a product outlet. At least one gas flow is compressed by a high-pressure fan and introduced into the parallel-flow regenerative shaft kiln. The high-pressure fan is configured as an axial fan or as a radial fan, having an impeller through which flow takes place axially or radially. A parallel-flow regenerative shaft kiln may also be utilized to perform such methods.

An improved lime mud recycling system including a camera proximate the kiln outlet imaging the granular lime and providing outlet images of the granular lime exiting the kiln, a processor analyzing the outlet images of the granular lime and providing pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln, as well as a controller communicating with the processor comparing the pebble size distribution of the granular lime exiting the kiln with predetermined prescribed operating parameters for pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln and issuing (I) a notification and/or (II) a control signal prompting remedial action when the pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln are outside of the predetermined prescribed operating parameters.