Carbon slurry

The water—carbon slurry formed in the quench vessel is separated from the gas stream and flows to the carbon recovery system needed for environmental reasons and for better thermal efficiency. The recovered carbon is recycled to the reactor dispersed in the feedstock. If the fresh feed does not have too high an ash content, 100% of the carbon formed can be recycled to extinction. 

In pelletizing, the water—carbon slurry is contacted with a low viscosity oil which preferentially wets the soot particles and forms pellets that are screened from the water and homogenized into the oil feed to the gasification reactor (see Size enlargement). 

When the recycle soot in the feedstock is too viscous to be pumped at temperatures below 93°C, the water—carbon slurry is first contacted with naphtha carbon—naphtha agglomerates are removed from the water slurry and mixed with additional naphtha. The resultant carbon—naphtha mixture is combined with the hot gasification feedstock which may be as viscous as deasphalter pitch. The feedstock carbon—naphtha mixture is heated and flashed, and then fed to a naphtha stripper where naphtha is recovered for recycle to the carbon—water separation step. The carbon remains dispersed in the hot feedstock leaving the bottom of the naphtha stripper column and is recycled to the gasification reactor. 

Heating the ammonium beryUium carbonate solution to 95°C causes nearly quantitative precipitation of beryUium basic carbonate [66104-24-3], Be(OH)2 2BeC02. Evolved carbon dioxide and ammonia are recovered for recycle as the strip solution. Continued heating of the beryUium basic carbonate slurry to 165°C Hberates the remaining carbon dioxide and the resulting beryUium hydroxide [13327-32-7] intermediate is recovered by filtration. The hydroxide is the basic raw material for processing into beryUium metal, copper—beryUium and other aUoys, and beryUia [1304-56-9] for ceramic products. Approximately 90% of the beryUium content of bertrandite is recovered by this process. 

Both natural ground or precipitated calcium carbonate are available as dry products shipped in 22.7 kg multiwaH bags, supersacks, or in bulk via tmck and railcar. Calcium carbonate slurry, primarily used by the paper industry, is shipped by tmck and rail. The soflds content of these slurries is typically >70% by weight for ground products and 20—50% for precipitated. In the 1980s small precipitation plants were built at the site of large North American papermills. 

A carbonated slurry of cyanamide solution, solid calcium carbonate, and graphite is cooled to remove the heat of reaction. Part of the slurry is recycled to faciUtate temperature control whereas the remainder is filtered yielding cyanamide solution and a cake of calcium carbonate and graphite. The filtered solution is also recycled ia order to control the soHds content. The final concentration of cyanamide is normally maintained at 25%. 

The carbon slurry has to be received and dewatered before feeding it to the furnace. There are two basic carbon column operating systems the batch and the intermittent or slug type. Depending on which system is used, the receiving, dewatering, and feed operations are performed differently. 

Sterilised caldum carbonate slurry is added in increments to the sterilised medium to maintain pH. Addition of all die necessary caldum carbonate at the beginning of the process would irreversibly and adversely affect the inoculum. 

U.S. EPA has shown that 90% of process water can be recycled to the front end of the system for slurry preparation, and the rest must be treated on site or transported to an off-site facility.80 During the aerobic process, some contaminated air may be formed and emitted from the reactor. Depending on the air characteristics, a compatible air pollution control device may be used, such as activated carbon. Slurry biodegradation has been shown to be successful in treating soils contaminated with soluble organics, PAHs, and petroleum waste. The process has been most effective with contaminant concentrations ranging from 2500 mg/kg to 250,000 mg/kg. 

The absorption technique using hot potassium carbonate has also been developed to capture C02 (Probstein and Hicks, 1990). The chilled ammonia process is another solvent-based C02 capture technology where ammonia carbonate slurries are used to capture 90% of the C02 in the gas stream mixture gas forming ammonia bicarbonate in the process. A pilot-scale chilled ammonia unit for 5 MW equivalent flue gas capture is under construction by ALSTOM and EPRI. Although this process is developed for a combustion system, the results will provide valuable information for the future development of such a process for hydrogen production. According to ALSTOM, commercial products on chilled ammonia process will be available by 2010 (Alstom, 2007). 

New Polymeric Dispersants for Very Fine Calcium Carbonate Slurries... 

These specific requirements of a calcium carbonate slurry used for paper coating have necessitated the development of new dispersants that allow the preparation of ultra fine calcium carbonate slurries at high solids concentration that provide good rheological behaviour in coating. 

This article studies some of the polymer characteristics influencing the slurry dispersion and describes a new class of acrylic based polymer showing promising dispersing properties for ultra fine calcium carbonate slurries. 

We developed another dispersant presenting properties for a special application. In some cases when an ultra fine calcium carbonate slurry is spray dried, a re-agglomeration of the powder often occurs, due to high water adsorption. This powder aggregation is detrimental to the quality of the final product. 

In this section we give a description of the colloidal interactions which govern the state of dispersion and rheology of calcium carbonate slurries. The description is based on a series of fundamental experimental studies that have been described in more detail in previous publications. ... 

From the preceding discussion, the most obvious way to improve the performance of polyacrylate-dispersed calcium carbonate slurries is to reduce the solution ionic strength by reducing the amount of non-adsorbed polymer in solution. 

Measures taken to minimise the amount of unadsorbed polymer in solution have been shown to improve the viscosity performance of both kaolin and calcium carbonate slurries. These include adjustment of the pH or initial neutralisation of the polymer to increase its affinity to the surface and fractionation of the polymer to reduce the width of its molecular weight distribution. 

A sample of a standard calcium carbonate slurry was received from a large manufacturer in the USA. This sample was subjected to preservative efficacy testing according to the ASTM E 723-91 test protocol. Preservative treated samples were inoculated with a mixed bacterial inoculum containing organisms with a known tolerance or resistance to BIT (l,2-Benzisothiazolin-3-one). Untreated controls were included for reference purposes. The test procedure is outlined below. 

Figure 1 Preservative ejficacy of BIT in a calcium carbonate slurry using the ASTM E723-91 test procedure...

These results point to the potential for Bronopol as a preservative in calcium carbonate slurries. In addition, they also indicate the ability of Bronopol to act as a clean-up treatment in slurries already contaminated with organisms showing tolerance or resistance to other preservatives. 

Concn of silver from photographic wastes concn of activated carbon slurries concn of inorganic sludges... 

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