10-03-2022 дата публикации
Номер: US20220071243A1
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Particulate material is cooled by passing into the material a coolant stream of liquid nitrogen having a gaseous product around at least a portion of the liquid nitrogen, wherein the coolant stream is formed outside the particulate material in a nozzle body from which the coolant stream is passed into the particulate material. 1. A method of cooling particulate material , comprisingfeeding liquid nitrogen into a cavity in a nozzle body, wherein the cavity has an open discharge opening, to form a stream of the liquid nitrogen in the cavity,wherein the nozzle body is attached to the exterior of a wall of a carrier having an opening through the wall so that the discharge opening of the cavity is aligned with said opening,feeding a gaseous product out of an opening into the cavity, so that the gaseous product is in contact with the outer surface of the stream of liquid nitrogen within the cavity thereby forming a coolant stream in the cavity that consists of gaseous product around at least a portion of the liquid nitrogen,and passing the coolant stream out of the discharge opening of the cavity directly through the opening in the carrier wall into particulate material in the carrier while the particulate material is in motion passing the discharge opening, so that the coolant stream contacts and cools the particulate material in the carrier.2. A method according to whereinthe nozzle body also comprises a feed plate in the cavity which separates the cavity into an upstream cavity and a downstream cavity, and the feed tube passes through the upstream cavity and the feed plate and feeds liquid nitrogen into the downstream cavity, and the feed plate comprises in addition to the feed tube one or more holes passing through it, and wherein the gaseous product is fed into the upstream cavity and passes through the one or more holes in the feed plate into the downstream cavity and forms said coolant stream.3. A method according to wherein the gaseous product comprises nitrogen.4 ...
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