Method and tunnel furnace for sintering blanks

US4655978A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Assmann · Dormitz, DE
• Wolfgang Dorr · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Georg Maier · Weisendorf, DE
• Martin Peehs · Bubenreuth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 1984
• Grant date: Apr 7, 1987
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E30/30
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Method for sintering blanks into fuel pellets, in which the blanks are moved through the muffle of a tunnel furnace by pushing the blanks through the muffle on a guiding device which goes through the muffle and protrudes therefrom at least on the input side, in the form of a single-layer column of abutting blanks.