Abstract:
An integrated method of removing alkali metal compounds from sulfur-bearing coal is disclosed. The coal is comminuted (4) and mixed (10) with water (8) to form a slurry (12). In the preferred embodiment, the slurry (12) is comingled with an SO.sub.2 -bearing gas (16) in a transport pipeline (52) to form an acidic slurry which dissolves the alkali compounds out of the coal. The slurry is then separated (22) into a solid portion (24) and a liquid portion (26), the solid portion (24) being combusted (34) to form the SO.sub.2 -bearing gas (16).
Abstract:
It is an object of the invention to provide for a coal in oil mixture a combustor or burner system in which the ash resulting from burning the mixture is of submicron particle size.The burner system comprises, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a burner section (11), a flame exit nozzle (12), a fuel nozzle section (13) and an air tube (14) by which preheated air is directed into burner section (11). Regulated air pressure is delivered to a fuel nozzle (34) in nozzle section (13) through a line (9). Means (8),(16), and (17),(29),(6),(30) and (31) are provided for directing a mixture of coal particles and oil from a drum (15) to a nozzle (34) of FIG. 2 at a desired rate and pressure while a means (19) returns excess fuel to the fuel drum (15). Means (25) is provided for keeping the coal particles uniformly distributed in the coal in oil mixture in fuel drum (15). Means (29), (30), and (31) provide for stable fuel pressure supply from fuel pump (8) to fuel nozzle (34).A chamber is provided in the nozzle body (35), as shown in FIG. 3, and nozzle (34) is threaded into the nozzle body (35) inwardly of an end wall (36). Fuel flows from chamber (37) through axial passageways (45) and then radially inwardly through fuel passageways (44). The fuel enters passageway (43) and is atomized by regulated air pressure passing therethrough and exiting at the nozzle orifice.
Abstract:
A continuous process for the combustion of solid fuels in a fluidized bed of solid particles under conditions such that flue gas is essentially free of dust and oxides of sulfur and nitrogen. Fuel is charged as an aqueous slurry and additional water condensed from the flue gas is recycled to the combustion zone. Combustion is promoted both by water vapor and alkali added with fuel slurry, while the alkali serves also to neutralize and remove sulfur in completely oxidized, or sulfate, form. Useful heat is recovered from the hot gases leaving the combustion zone and, in some cases, from the fluidized bed itself. Under the pressure of the system recovery of heat results in condensation of water which serves to scrub dust from the flue gas, slurry product ash and furnish recycle water, which controls reaction temperature as well as promoting the combustion.
Abstract:
A novel apparatus and process for producing slurry, the apparatus including a mill having an integral heating means, a solid feed means for feeding a lumpy solid into the mill, a liquid feed means for feeding a first liquid into the mill, and a liquid removal means for selectively removing a second liquid contained within the lumpy solid and having a boiling point different from that of the first liquid; the second liquid is evaporated by heating during the crushing of the lumpy solid when mixed with the first liquid within said mill, the mill having means for mixing and stirring the liquid/solid mixture to produce a slurry.The process including steps for heating and crushing a first liquid/solid mixture and simultaneously removing a second liquid contained within the solid.
Abstract:
A novel apparatus and process for producing slurry, the apparatus including a mill having an integral heating means, a solid feed means for feeding a lumpy solid into the mill, a liquid feed means for feeding a first liquid into the mill, and a liquid removal means for selectively removing a second liquid contained within the lumpy solid and having a boiling point different from that of the first liquid; the second liquid is evaporated by heating during the crushing of the lumpy solid when mixed with the first liquid within said mill, the mill having means for mixing and stirring the liquid/solid mixture to produce a slurry. The process including steps for heating and crushing a first liquid/solid mixture and simultaneously removing a second liquid contained within the solid.
Abstract:
A process is provided using non-food or limited-feed agricultural residue and energy crops for energy production, such as ethanol or electricity generation. The agricultural plant material is harvested and baled. The bales are transported to the processing site for storage or immediate processing. The bale strings are first removed, and then the broken bales are shredded. The shredded plant material is then ground to a small size. The ground material is then pelletized to produce densified pellets of the agricultural plant material. The pellets are cooled and then stored or transported to an end user.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the transportation and preparation for combustion of coal used as a solid fuel at heat power plants and can find applications in coal-based power generation. The object of the invention is a complex use of energy resources contained in coal, reduction of power consumption for the realization of the process, expansion of solid fuel pipeline transport application in coal-based power generation, increase in the coal pipeline operation safety, and the environment protection. Prior to the transportation via a pipeline, the initial stream of coal is screened into coarse material and fines, the latter being pressed into cylindrical monolithic blocks. Coal is transported via a pipeline filled with aqueous salt solution with a density exceeding that of the transported material, the coarse coal and pressed blocks being loaded into the pipeline alternately. At the power station, the coal delivered in the aqueous salt solution is separated from the liquid carrier, rinsed with water, dried and ground with simultaneous capturing of released methane. The effluents of rinsing are evaporated by heat released at the condensation of the working medium of the power plant thermodynamic cycle. The remaining stripped solution is mixed with liquid medium separated from the coal and returned to the starting point of the process.
Abstract:
Methods by which new or used boilers or furnaces ranging from small industrial to the largest utility units that are designed for coal or oil or natural gas or shredded waste or shredded biomass firing can substantially improve their technical operation and sharply reduce their capital and operating costs by implementing component modifications and process steps that (a) minimize the adverse impacts of coal ash and slag on boiler surfaces and particulate emissions thereby also facilitating the use of oil or gas designed boilers for coal firing, (b) drastically reduce the loss of water used to transport coal in slurry form to power plants, (c) essentially eliminate the combined total nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), mercury (Hg), trace metals, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, (d) separate and permanently sequester carbon dioxide released during combustion and (e) improve the coal and solid fuel combustion efficiency.
Abstract:
A hydrothermal reaction is performed on an aqueous medium without adding an oxidizing agent, and then another hydrothermal reaction is performed in the presence of an oxidizing agent, thereby reducing a chemical oxygen demand of the aqueous medium. An apparatus for performing a hydrothermal reaction has a fluid inlet being capable of introducing an oxidizing agent in a fluid form during a hydrothermal reaction.