Advanced physical fine coal cleaning spherical agglomeration. Final report

Abstract

This report describes proof-of-concept (POC) testing of ultrafine coal agglomeration with bridging liquid recovery performed by Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract DE-AC22-87PC79867, Advanced Physical Fine Coal Cleaning Spherical Agglomeration. Work started in September 1987, and the operational testing was completed in March 1990. Data reduction and the final report were complete in September 1990. The program was sponsored by the DOE's Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under a Joint agreement to p_omote research in promising coal cleaning technologies. PROCESS DESCRIPTION The POC agglomeration process is based on Spherical Agglomeration technology developed by Arcanum Corp.