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US 11,572,306 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing hydrated lime
AssigneeMississippi Lime Company
InventorsRandy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
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Abstract
A method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles.
Claims18
A method of reducing impurities in a lime feed, the method comprising:
- providing a lime feed comprising calcium oxide and a first amount of impurities;
- milling said lime feed to produce a fine ground lime, wherein said fine ground lime has a particle-size distribution of less than 80% minus 200 mesh;
- feeding said fine ground lime into an air classification system;
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- removing a refined fine lime from said air classification system wherein said refined fine lime is finer than said fine ground lime and has a particle size distribution of greater than 70% minus 200 mesh;
- wherein said refined fine lime includes a second amount of impurities less than said first amount of impurities.
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