Engineering design and analysis of advanced physical fine coal cleaning technologies. Quarterly technical progress report No. 12, July--September 1992

Technical Report · Tue Oct 20 04:00:00 EDT 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10113803· OSTI ID:10113803

Gallier, P W

The major goal is to provide the simulation tools for modeling both conventional and advanced coal cleaning technologies. This DOE project is part of a major research initiative by the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC) aimed at advancing three advanced coal cleaning technologies- advanced cylconing, selective agglomeration, and advanced froth flotation through the proof-of-concept. The commercially available ASPEN PLUS process simulation package will be extended to handle coal cleaning applications. Algorithms for predicting the process performance, equipment size, and flowsheet economics of commercial coal cleaning devices and related ancillary equipment will be incorporated into the coal cleaning simulator. This report is submitted to document the progress of Aspen Technology Inc. (AspenTech), its contractor, ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc., (ICF KE) and CQ Inc., for the period of July through September 1992. ICF KE is providing coal preparation consulting and processing engineering services in this work and they are responsible for recommending the design of models to represent conventional coal cleaning equipment and costing of these models. CQ Inc. is a subcontractor to ICF KE on Tasks I - 5 and is a contractor to AspenTech on Task 6.

• Research Organization: Aspen Technology, Inc., Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-89PC89908
• OSTI ID: 10113803
• Report Number(s): DOE/PC/89908--T25; ON: DE93006434
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
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AGGLOMERATION
ALGORITHMS
CENTRIFUGES
CLEANING
COAL FINES
CYCLONE SEPARATORS
ENGINEERING
FLOTATION
PARTICLE SIZE
PREPARATION
PROGRESS REPORT
SCREENS
SIMULATION