Process for the production of highly permeable calcined diatomites with low cristobalite content and resultant calcined diatomaceous filtration agents
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1. A process for the production of calcined diatomaceous filtration agents having a cristobalite content lower than 1% and a 50-μ
- m screen retention rate lower than 5% by rapid calcination of diatomites, comprising injecting the diatomite into a high-temperature gaseous stream and during its residence in the gaseous stream maintaining the diatomite between about 1250° and
850°
C. for a period of time between several tens of milliseconds and several seconds.
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A process for the production of calcined diatomaceous filtration agents having a cristobalite content lower than 1% and a 50-μm screen retention rate lower than 5% by rapid calcination of diatomites, comprising injecting the diatomite into a high-temperature gaseous stream and during its residence in the gaseous stream maintaining the diatomite between about 1250° and 850° C. for a period of time between several tens of milliseconds and several seconds, and calcined diatomaceous filtration agents having a permeability between 0.06 and 0.4 darcy and a cristobalite content lower than 1%.
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1. A process for the production of calcined diatomaceous filtration agents having a cristobalite content lower than 1% and a 50-μ
- m screen retention rate lower than 5% by rapid calcination of diatomites, comprising injecting the diatomite into a high-temperature gaseous stream and during its residence in the gaseous stream maintaining the diatomite between about 1250° and
850°
C. for a period of time between several tens of milliseconds and several seconds. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- m screen retention rate lower than 5% by rapid calcination of diatomites, comprising injecting the diatomite into a high-temperature gaseous stream and during its residence in the gaseous stream maintaining the diatomite between about 1250° and
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10. A calcined diatomaceous filtration agent having a permeability between 0.06 and 0.4 darcy and a cristobalite content lower than 1%.
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