Method and apparatus for thermal treatment of non-gaseous material

An apparatus for the thermical treatment of non-gaseous material, which apparatus comprises a body of revolution, located in a housing having a bottom and comprising a substantially vertically oriented chamber which tapers toward the bottom, whose side is open for the ejection of thermically treated non-gaseous material, the body of revolution being rotatable round the chamber's longitudinal axis and the apparatus is provided with means for the thermical treatment of non-gaseous material, the chamber having at its tapered end an opening which is located away from the bottom of the housing, the opening of the wide end of a chamber being located within the housing, wherein the bottom (11) of the housing (1) is provided with means for the fluidization of material located at the bottom of the housing (1).

A method for the thermical treatment of non-gaseous material in a body of revolution, which body of revolution is located in a housing and comprises a substantially vertically oriented chamber which tapers towards the bottom and whose wide side is open, the chamber is rotated round its longitudinal axis and the non-gaseous material is introduced into the chamber proximate to a tapered end and after thermical treatment is ejected, due to rotation, at a wide end of the chamber, wherein the non-gaseous material is a solid material which is subjected to a thermical treatment to convert said solid material by a chemical conversion reaction chosen from the group consisting of a calcination reaction or a pyrolytic reaction, and said non-gaseous material comprising thermically treated solid material is returned to the tapered end in the chamber (4) inside the housing (1).

An apparatus for the thermical treatment of non-gaseous material, which apparatus comprises a body of revolution, located in a housing having a bottom and comprising a substantially vertically oriented chamber which tapers toward the bottom, whose side is open for the ejection of thermically treated non-gaseous material, the body of revolution being rotatable round the chamber's longitudinal axis and the apparatus is provided with means for the thermical treatment of the non-gaseous material, the chamber having at its tapered end an opening which is located at a distance from the bottom of the housing, the opening of a wide end of the chamber being located within the housing, wherein the body of revolution (2) proximate to a lower chamber (4) opening is provided with a protruding blade element (12) for carrying solid material-comprising material from the bottom (11) of the housing (1) into the chamber (4) for thermical treatment.

An apparatus for the thermical treatment of non-gaseous material, which apparatus comprises a body of revolution, located in a housing and a substantially vertically oriented chamber which tapers towards the bottom, whose wide side is open for the ejection of thermically treated non-gaseous material, the body of revolution being rotatable round the chamber's longitudinal axis;

• the apparatus is provided with means for the thermical treatment of the non-gaseous material, and in the housing near the open wide end of the chamber a guiding element is provided for deflecting solid material leaving the open wide end of the chamber, wherein the guide element (14) in arranged for returning solid, to be thermically converted material to a tapered end through the substantially vertically oriented chamber.