Solids separations, coal

Solids separation is accomplished by vacuum distillation in the syncrude mode. Table 27-14 shows the product yields obtained in PDU tests with an Ilhnois No. 6 bituminous coal. 

The technology does not treat wastes but is used as a mixing apparatus in conjunction with other treatment technologies such as flotation (used to separate coal agglomerates), traditional screening, and sedimentation (both used to separate solids). 

The load characteristic of circulating fluidized bed boilers is closely related to the gas-solid flux through the combustor. Thus, choice of coal size and the proper gas-solid separator deserves attention. Generally, the fraction of particles below 0.1 mm is smaller than 10%, which could be removed only by a cyclone separator, while the major fraction of coarser particles could be easily separated by inertia or gravity (Li and Kwauk, 1981). The diagram of ash balance for a circulating fluidized bed boiler, shown in Fig. 22, can... 

Based on the experience of these 75 t/h boilers, a 220 t/h CFBC boiler has been designed and is now being fabricated. A two-stage channel separator, as shown in Fig. 39, is used on these CFBC boilers. This is followed by multi-cyclones. By using this combination of gas-solid separators, and with fly ash reburn, the combustion efficiency has reached 97.5% for a 12,000-kJ/kg low-grade coal. 

Preparation of the Media Various solid materials have been used to prepare the media. In the initial development of the process, a suspension of sand and also mixtures of barite and clay were used for separating coal from slate. Galena (lead sulfide mineral) was also used... 

Coal, clay ore processing Oil, grease and solids separation in chemicals and food industry Non-ferrous metal and process liquids recovery Coal carbonizing, plastics manufacture, metal processing Metal processing Pesticides, dye stuffs Desalination of industrial waters, waste waters with dissolved contaminants... 

Pure pyridine may be prepared from technical coal-tar pyridine in the following manner. The technical pyridine is first dried over solid sodium hydroxide, distilled through an efficient fractionating column, and the fraction, b.p. 114 116° collected. Four hundred ml. of the redistilled p)rridine are added to a reagent prepared by dissolving 340 g. of anhydrous zinc chloride in a mixture of 210 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 1 litre of absolute ethyl alcohol. A crystalline precipitate of an addition compound (probable composition 2C5H5N,ZnCl2,HCl ) separates and some heat is evolved. When cold, this is collected by suction filtration and washed with a little absolute ethyl alcohol. The yield is about 680 g. It is recrystaUised from absolute ethyl alcohol to a constant m.p. (151-8°). The base is liberated by the addition of excess of concentrated... 

The flotation process was developed in the mining and coal processing industries as a way of separating suspended solids from a medium such as water. As noted above, the flotation process has found uses in other fields, such as wastewater treatment. The process introduces fine air bubbles into the mixture, so that the air bubbles attach to the particles, and lift them to the surface. 

In the plant, coal is ground and mixed with water to form a slurry and this is fed to the gasifier through a burner, in which partial combustion takes place with oxygen (supplied from a separate plant). During gasification the coal a.sh is melted into a slag, quenched with water and removed as a solid. 

There were several studies of hydraulic transport in the 1950s, sparked off particularly by an interest in the economic possibilities of transportation of coal and other minerals over long distances. Newitt et al.p2) working with solids of a range of particle sizes (up to 5 fim) and densities (1180-4600 kg/m3) in a 25 mm diameter pipe, suggested separate correlations for flow with a bed deposit and tor conditions where the particles were predominantly in heterogeneous suspension. 

The dense fluid that exists above the critical temperature and pressure of a substance is called a supercritical fluid. It may be so dense that, although it is formally a gas, it is as dense as a liquid phase and can act as a solvent for liquids and solids. Supercritical carbon dioxide, for instance, can dissolve organic compounds. It is used to remove caffeine from coffee beans, to separate drugs from biological fluids for later analysis, and to extract perfumes from flowers and phytochemicals from herbs. The use of supercritical carbon dioxide avoids contamination with potentially harmful solvents and allows rapid extraction on account of the high mobility of the molecules through the fluid. Supercritical hydrocarbons are used to dissolve coal and separate it from ash, and they have been proposed for extracting oil from oil-rich tar sands. 

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