EQUIPMENT
Hazen maintains an extensive collection of process equipment for laboratory- and demonstration-scale programs. A partial listing of our thermal processing equipment is shown below. A full range of ancillary process equipment is available for feed preparation, product recovery, and offgas handling.
Drying
- 1-foot-wide by 14.5-foot-long traveling grate dryer
- 3-inch-diameter by 30-inch-long hollow-shaft dryer
- 7-inch-diameter by 7-foot-long twin-auger Holoflite® dryer
- 100-pound-H2O-per-hour spray dryer
Melting
- 5-kVA induction furnace (1-pound capacity)
- 35-kVA induction furnace (30-pound capacity)
- 12-kW resistance furnace (10-pound capacity)
- 4-inch-diameter by 3-foot-deep bath furnace
- Rotary furnace (10-pound capacity)
- 30-kW, 6-cubic-foot muffle furnace
Calcination, Combustion, and Roasting
- 2-inch-diameter batch fluid bed
- 2-inch-diameter high-pressure fluid bed
- 4-inch-diameter fluid bed (two)
- 6-inch-diameter Inconel fluid bed
- 6-inch-diameter circulating fluid bed
- 15-inch- and 24-inch-diameter fluid bed
- 4-inch-diameter batch rotary kiln
- 7-inch-diameter by 12-foot-long indirect-heated rotary kiln
- 15-inch-diameter by 15-foot-long rotary kiln
- 2-foot-diameter by 7-foot-long rotary kiln
- 5-foot-diameter sectional kiln
- 3-foot-diameter multiple-hearth (8) furnace
- 5-inch-diameter thermal-screw reactor
- 6-inch-diameter shaft furnace