Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100300247 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING REDUCED METAL AND SLAG CONTAINING OXIDIZED NONFERROUS METAL USING AN UPGRADED COAL - The present invention provides a method for producing a high-quality reduced metal using an upgraded coal as a carbonaceous material to be incorporated. In the method, coal is first aged by heating in an organic solvent to produce upgraded coal for metallurgy having higher thermal plasticity than that of the coal. Then, a mixture of the upgraded coal for metallurgy and a metal oxide-containing raw material is agglomerated by an agglomerator, and the resultant agglomerates are reduced by heating in a furnace and then melted by further heating to produce a reduced melt. The reduced melt is cooled and solidified in the furnace to produce a reduced solid. The reduced solid is discharged to the outside of the furnace and slag is removed using a screen to recover a metal as a reduced metal. | 12-02-2010 |
20120079763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SOLID FUEL - An apparatus for producing a solid fuel which may be made by a method involving mixing porous coal with a mixed oil containing heavy oil and solvent oil to prepare a raw material slurry; heating the raw material slurry to promote dehydration of the porous coal while impregnating the mixed oil into pores of the porous coal to obtain a dehydrated slurry; separating the resulting upgraded porous coal and mixed oil from the dehydrated slurry; drying the separated upgraded porous coal with carrier gas, and subsequently condensing vaporized mixed oil in the carrier gas by cooling, while capturing the porous coal in the carrier gas by atomization of the condensed mixed oil, thereby recovering the mixed oil; and returning the mixed oil separated and recovered in the separating to the mixing, further involving supplying the mixed oil recovered in the final drying to the separating. | 04-05-2012 |
20120216455 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SOLID FUEL FROM COAL - An apparatus for producing a low-pyrophoricity, transportable, storable dewatered solid fuel from a low rank coal, includes a mixing vessel | 08-30-2012 |
20120291342 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BRIQUETTED SOLID FUEL USING POROUS COAL AS STARTING MATERIAL - Provided is a manufacturing method for a briquetted solid fuel that can reduce the briquetting cost while maintaining the strength of the briquetted product. A mixed oil that includes a heavy oil and a solvent oil, and a porous coal are mixed to obtain a slurry. The slurry is dewatered by heating to obtain a dewatered slurry. Solvent oil is separated from the dewatered slurry to obtain a cake, the cake is heated, and solvent oil is further separated from the cake to obtain a modified coal. Moisture is added to the modified coal to obtain a moist modified coal with a moisture content of 3 wt % to 10 wt %, and then the moist modified coal is briquetted under pressure. | 11-22-2012 |
20150135584 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOLID FUEL AND SOLID FUEL PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - Modified solid fuel manufacturing method and modified solid fuels manufactured using the manufacturing method. When solid fuels are manufactured by crushing low grade coal, mixing the crushed low grade coal with solvent oil to prepare a slurry, heating the slurry to at least the boiling point of water to evaporate moisture included in the slurry, separating the solvent oil from the slurry to produce charcoal dust and compression compacting said charcoal dust, by heating the slurry to at least the boiling point of water, the non-volatile components included in the low grade coal are extracted with the solvent oil, the outer surface of the low grade coal and the internal surfaces of the pores are coated with the extracted non-volatile components, and the content of heavy oil added from the outside will be less than 0.5 mass %, relative to the solid fuel after drying. | 05-21-2015 |
20150210946 | REFINED-COAL PRODUCTION METHOD, AND REFINED-COAL PRODUCTION DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a refined-coal production method and a refined-coal production device, which exhibit excellent operability, and with which droplets accompanying steam generated when dehydrating moisture-containing coal is efficiently removed. This refined-coal production method is provided with: a step (A) in which a mixture including moisture-containing coal and oil is heated to dehydrate the coal; a step (B) in which droplets accompanying steam generated by performing dehydration are removed; and a step (C) in which steam, having had the droplets removed therefrom, is compressed to obtain high-temperature steam. The refined-coal production method is characterized in that, in step (B), the steam is sequentially passed through one or a plurality of mist separators, and removal of the droplets is performed while liquid is being sprayed onto a first mist separator through which the steam passes firstly. | 07-30-2015 |
20150240178 | METHOD FOR STORING UPGRADED COAL, AND GRAIN-SIZE-CONTROLLED COAL - A method for storing upgraded coal, which is economical and whereby it becomes possible to prevent the spontaneous ignition of piles; and grain-size-controlled coal which rarely undergoes spontaneous ignition during storage. The method for storing upgraded coal includes piling up granular coal containing upgraded coal, wherein the content of grains each having a grain size of 10 mm or less in the coal is 50 mass % or more. It is preferred that the content of grains each having a grain size of 1 mm or less is 25 mass % or more and the content of grains each having a grain size of 0.15 mm or less is 7 mass % or more in the coal. | 08-27-2015 |
20150376529 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED SOLID FUEL - A method of manufacturing a molded solid fuel including: a pulverization for pulverizing low-grade coal; a mixing for obtaining a slurry by mixing the pulverized low-grade coal and a solvent oil; a dehydration for obtaining a dehydrated slurry by heating and dehydrating the slurry; a solid-liquid separation for obtaining a cake by separating the solvent oil from the dehydrated slurry; a drying for obtaining powdery modified coal by heating the cake and further separating the solvent oil from the cake; and a molding for pressurizing and molding the powdery modified coal by using a molding machine, without the addition/mixture of a binder. In the molding, a coolant is sprayed onto the surface of the molding machine, and the surface temperature of the molding machine is kept equal to or below 100° C. | 12-31-2015 |