Fluidized bed method and plant for the heat treatment of solids containing titanium

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and a plant for the heat treatment of solids containing titanium and possibly further metal oxides, in which fine-grained solids are heated to a temperature of 700 to 950° C. in a fluidized bed reactor ( 1 ). To improve the energy utilization, it is proposed to introduce a first gas or gas mixture from below through a gas supply tube ( 3 ) into a mixing chamber ( 7 ) of the reactor ( 1 ), the gas supply tube ( 3 ) being at least partly surrounded by a stationary annular fluidized bed ( 10 ) which is fluidized by supplying fluidizing gas. The gas velocities of the first gas or gas mixture as well as of the fluidizing gas for the annular fluidized bed ( 10 ) are adjusted such that the particle Froude numbers in the gas supply tube ( 3 ) are between 1 and 100, in the annular fluidized bed ( 10 ) between 0.02 and 2 and in the mixing chamber ( 7 ) between 0.3 and 30.