Ausrüstung » Prozessmetallurgie
1MW Electric Arc Furnace
Application area:
- Carbothermic production of silicium/ aluminium
- Batteryrecycling
- Slag metallurgy
- Steel metallurgy
- Copper metallurgy
Performance data
- Operation with direct or alternating current
- Transformer power input 1 MWA
- Hearth diameter 1,6 m
- Height of vessel 3,2 m
- Measuring technique for drawing an energy balance
Contact person
Dipl. -Ing. Joao Weiss
35l tilting resistance furnace
Application area:
- Safty-related constructed especially for magnesium melt (Fe-crucible)
- Melting of Al, Cu, Pb, Zn in Fe or graphit crucible
- Melt treatment possible with installed industrial full-automatically Foseco stirring and degasification device
Performance data
- Resistance heated furnance by SiC bars
- Volume: 35 l
- Hydraulic tilting allows controlled dosing during casting (remote-controlled)
- hydraulic cover (remote-controlled) with ring pipeline for inert gas
- Heat power: 46 kW
- Continuously adjustable temperature control
- Emergency outlet at the bottom for directed melt cast at crucible fraction
Contact person
M.Sc. Dorothea Schneider geb. Kenn
DC-Electric arc furnace (KLBO & MLBO)
Application area:
- Recycling of AlMn, ZnCl or lithium-ion batteries
- Recycling of Slags
- Reduction of oxide components
- Production of AlSi-alloys and silicon
- Production of ferro-alloys and non-ferrous alloy
- Recycling of waste materials
Performance data
- Small electric arc furnace (KLBO) = 1.5 l melt volume
- Medium-sized electric arc furnace (MLBO) = 4.5 l / 12 l melt volume
- Current: 120-700A; voltage 24-70V
- Standard crucible: graphite
- Top electrode (30mm/50mm): Graphite
- Bottom electrode: Copper, water-cooled
- Casting by tilting the furnace
- Temperature monitoring on bottom electrode, refractory lining and exhaust gas
- Set-up may be modified according to customer requirements
Contact person
M.Sc. Magnus Sievers
Top Blown Rotary Converter(TBRC)
Application area:
- Aluminium recycling with salt slag
- Converter process by inflating or injection oxygen
- Melting plant
- Slag treatment
Performance data
- Rotation speed up to 10 U/min
- Flexible energy input by air or oxygen operated natural gas burner (max. 500 kW)
- Converter lance
- Stagelessly adjustable inclination of furnace
- Changeable furnace vessel (variation of melt capacity and refractory material)
- Vessel volume either 100 l or 1000 l (depending on vessel)
Contact person
M.Sc. Joscha Kortmann
High pressure leaching autoclave
Application area:
- Leaching of different ores and concentrates
- Recycling of different metallurgical dusts
- CO2-storage and utilization as carbonates
- Cleaning of waelz oxides
Performance data
- Temperature max.: 300°C
- Volume of autoclave: 1-10 l (2 reactors)
- bis 200 bar
- Stirring speed: 2000 U/min
- Sampling point available
- Gaseous Atmospheres possible: CO2, O2, H2, N2, Ar, Luft
- System for dosing acid available
- Data collection available
Contact person
M.Sc. Dominik Büscher geb. Schmitz
Cascade leaching
Application area:
- Purification of industrial waste water
- area of application: environmental protection
Performance data
- conventional process for the precipitation of dissolved metals
- selective removal with the aid of pH-shift
- etablished method for purification of metalliferous waste water
- neutralization by means of caustic soda or milk of lime
- fully-automated chemical addition by pH-transmitter
- online monitoring system with data logging
- scalable throughput capacity by modular enlargement/increasing
- cost efficient consumption of energy and resources
Contact person
M.Sc. Dominik Büscher geb. Schmitz
Microwave Anton Paar
Application area:
- Microwave-assisted sample preparation
- Microwave-assisted chemical synthesis
- Fast and complete digestion in sealed vessels
- Extraction with organic solvents of organic and inorganic samples under high pressure and at high temperature
Performance data
- Power supply: 230V, 50Hz, 3680VA
- Power magnetrons respectively 850W
- Microwave power 1500W
Contact person
M.Sc. Monika Keutmann
Solvent Extraction
Application area:
Type: Mixer-settler
- hydrometallurgy
- Solvent extraktion
- Selective separation process
- Removal of impurities
- Concentration of the solutions
Performance data
- Mixer-settler units 0.5
- Continuous operation
- Multi-stage process: a total of 5 mixer-settler units
- Adjustable flow rate (up to 10 L / hour)
Contact person
Priv. Doz. Dr. -Ing. habil. Srecko Stopic
Microwave Anton Paar
Application area:
- Cleaning of lab glasses
- Ultrasonic assisted leaching
- Improved mixing
- Degassing of solutions
Performance data
- Working frequency 24 kHz
- Control range ± 500 Hz
- Amplitude control range 20-100%
- Different sonotrode diameters
Contact person
M.Sc. Monika Keutmann
Rotary kiln Furnace
Application area:
- Volatilization of zinc containing raw material
Performance data
- Working temperature up to 1100°C
- Rotation continuously variable
- Rotary furnaces for reducing, oxidizing und sulfur containing atmospheres
- adjusting of different gas atmospheres
Contact person
M.Sc. Paul Geller
High temperature vacuum rotary kiln
Application area:
- 10 U / min, 10 ° tilt angle: residence time of powder is about 2min (0 ° C – 1500 ° C)
- 0 U / min, 0 ° tilt angle: No material discharge (batch process) (0 ° C – 1500 ° C)
- Ceramic working tube (Tmax = 1600 ° C) maximum grain size of input material is 15 mm.
- Stainless steel pipe work (Tmax = 1000 ° C) maximum grain size of input materials is approximately 30 mm.
Performance data
- Max. temperature: 1600 ° C
- Working Tubes: I) alumina ceramics, quality C610, II) high temperature resistant stainless steel 1.4841
- Inner diameter: 150 mm
- Overall length: 2,000 mm
- Heating: Heating elements: Molydändisilicid
- Heating zones: Three (fully automatically controlled)
- Heated Length: 1000 mm
- Rotational speed: 1-10 U / min
- Orientation: 0 to 10° (fully automatic adjustable)
- Atmosphere: vacuum (10 mbar up), inert gas (co-, counter-current)
Contact person
M.Sc. Paul Geller
Metallothermic Reduction
Application area:
- Metal production from oxides with high-melting temperature
- Metallothermic reduction with aluminum, magnesium as reducing agent
- Autothermic process (initial Ignition required)
- Manufacture of refractory metals and alloys (TiAl, Ti24Al16V, CuCr, NbCr, etc.
Performance data
- Reactor volume up to 200 liters (equivalent to ~ 60 kg of a Ti-alloy)
- Low equipment costs
- Fast reaction times (2-20 min.)
- Operating Temperature Range: 1 700 ° C – 2 600 ° C
- Batchwise with Inline Casting for direct electrode production possible
Contact person
M.Sc. Richard Schneider
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