Abstract:
A process for pulverizing coal to ultrafine size of a few microns, comprising conveying the coal through successive pulverizers with an inert gas, separating the ultrafine coal from the inert gas, cooling and recycling the inert gas and producing make-up inert gas by water scrubbing and alkaline or monoethanolamine scrubbing boiler flue gases to remove particulate, carbon dioxide, thereby leaving essentially nitrogen inert gas. Control of the final ultrafine particle size is achieved by regulation of the flow of conveying gas through the final pulverizer. Reject material streams are taken from the pulverizers to improve the quality of the product pulverized coal, which reject streams are burned in a furnace so as to recover their heat value.
Abstract:
The method of converting coal to pipeline quality gas comprising introducing coal particles of a size of about 4 microns into a reactor, rapidly heating the interior, such as by an external heat source to cause thermal comminution and devolatilization, the products of fractionation being immediately reacted with hydrogen. A portion or all of the excess submicron coal particles are gasified in a separate gasifier to produce a synthesis gas.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a ground detection circuit for an ungrounded D.C. distribution network. The sensitivity to ground is uniquely independent of polarity of the D.C. bus on which the ground occurs. The occurrence of multiple grounds will cause the ground detection circuit to operate as if all such ground resistances were in parallel with each other. The principle of detection is based on the fact that the algebraic sum of currents flowing through a resistance, having one end connected to ground and the other end being alternately connected to the plus and then to the minus bus of the center tap battery source, is inversely proportional to the ''''total resistance'''' to ground of the network, where ''''total resistance'''' is the equivalent of placing all resistances to ground in parallel.