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Article: German Inventors Develop Hot Bulk Material Cooling Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 4 -- Thomas Staak and Archibald Wallace, both of Hamburg, Germany, Helmut Wallis of Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany, and Hartmut Meyer of Buxtehude, Germany, have developed an apparatus for cooling hot bulk material using a cooling gas at a temperature lower than a temperature of the hot bulk material.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a method and an apparatus for treating, in particular cooling, a layer of bulk material by means of a stream of gas passed through it on a grate. The grate includes a plurality of elongated planks which extend in a conveying direction and are driven in advancing and return strokes in the conveying ...