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US 10,067,039 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for producing a pellet
AssigneeThyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
InventorsMarc Bornefeld, Reinhard Teutenberg, Jürgen Schneberger
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for producing a pellet preferably intended for subsequent chemical analysis, wherein a material stream is melted, the molten material is shapelessly cooled and ground and at least some of the ground material stream is pressed into a pressed pellet.
Claims11
A method for producing a pellet to be analyzed, so as to identify the substances contained therein, the method comprising:
- melting a material to produce a molten material stream;
- shapelessly cooling the molten material stream to produce a glassy material;
- grinding the cooled glassy material;
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- pressing at least a portion of the ground glassy material to form a pressed pellet,
- wherein said grinding of the glassy material is at least partially performed at the same time as said cooling thereof.
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