Coal Cleaning by Gas Agglomeration
Author(s) -
Meiyu Shen,
Royce Abbott,
T.D. Wheelock
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/2118
Subject(s) - economies of agglomeration , coal , agglomerate , mixing (physics) , chemical engineering , octane , chemistry , materials science , waste management , petroleum engineering , organic chemistry , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
The gas agglomeration method of coal cleaning was demonstrated with laboratory scale mixing equipment which made it possible to generate microscopic gas bubbles in aqueous suspensions of coal particles. A small amount of i-octane was introduced to enhance the hydrophobicity of the coal. Between 1.0 and 2.5 v/w% i-octane was sufficient based on coal weight. Coal agglomerates or aggregates were produced which were bound together by small gas bubbles
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