Patent ID: 7311049

Claim:
A conveyor/cooler of solid hot loose materials ( 3 ) generated by boilers and by various industrial processes, comprising a sealed metal container ( 1 ) connected to combustion chamber of a boiler or an incinerator ( 2 , 7 ), and a metal conveyor belt ( 4 ) in the metal container ( 1 ) for receiving the hot loose material ( 3 ) from the combustion chamber by gravity and forming a traveling continuous bed of material cooled by the joint action of atomized water jets and air flows, and wherein nozzles ( 5 ) are provided in the metal container ( 1 ) and define an atomized water sprinkling system and are connected to a compressed air plant in order to jointly atomize water and air with respect to the need to optimize the cooling by appropriately measuring out the capacities of the water and air.