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POC-Scale Testing of a Dry Triboelectrostatic Seprator for Fine Coal Cleaning.

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:600568
It is the objective of the present project to further develop the triboelectrostatic separation (TES) process developed at the Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC) and test the process at a proof-of-concept (POC) scale. This process has a distinct advantage over other coal cleaning processes in that it does not entail costly steps of dewatering. The POC-scale unit is to be developed based on (i) the charge characteristics of coal and mineral matter that can be determined using the novel online tribocharge measuring device developed at Virginia Tech, and (ii) the results obtained from bench-scale TES tests conducted on three different coals.
Research Organization:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA (United States). Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-95PC95151
OSTI ID:
600568
Report Number(s):
DOE/PC/95151--T9; ON: DE98051708
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English