Peter von Rittinger

Peter von Rittinger ( born January 23, 1811 in Neutitschein; † December 7, 1872 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pioneer of the Montanist and mineral processing.

Life

As the son of poor parents, he attended high school in Leipnik ( Lipník, Moravia ) and studied under great hardships philosophy and rights in Olomouc ( Olomouc ). After completion of legal studies he chose the Montanist box at the Mining and Forestry Academy in Schemnitz ( Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia). After completing his studies in 1840 he was taken immediately as a stamp mill inspector in the civil service. In this role, he led a number of improvements in ore dressing. 1845 was the construction of the pointed box, a system for classifying fine-grained ores. The ores were led by a flow of liquid through a series hollow pyramid-shaped boxes in which they separated themselves according to particle size. 1849 he was appointed head of the mountain Oberamt Joachimsthalerstrasse coalfield. This year also saw the invention of the continuous transverse joint cooker. The introduction of this invention in the preparation technology was a major step forward, as a continuous operation was made possible by the shock stove. This separation process based on the different specific gravities of the co-occurrence, the slurry forming ores, other solids and the water that moved in Rittinger's construction on the slightly inclined fault plane in parabolic orbits continuously downward. The customary in Austria method of obtaining salt goes back to Peter Rittinger, the behufs their use by 1856 led experiments on the reproduction of the latent heat in water vapor by water power to evaporate the brine and recognized the principle of the heat pump. As a result, the heat pump was used in all Austrian salt mines for salt extraction.

In 1850 he was appointed as Sektionsrat for the artificial construction and processing specialist at the Ministry of Landescultur and mountain nature Vienna. In 1863 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class, which was associated with the hereditary knighthood. 1864 by Joachimsthal ( Jáchymov ) awarded him an honorary citizen. 1868 finally was appointed Ministerial Ministry of Finance. Most recently, he was the administrative head of the State Domains and Forests and the coal and steel works. He left numerous professional publications to his specialized field, ore processing, in which he was an internationally recognized authority.

In 1936 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Rittingergasse after him.