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Title: Apparatus and method for feeding coal into a coal gasifier. [Patent application; US DOE]

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6379773

This invention is directed to a system for feeding coal into a gasifier operating at high pressures. A coal-water slurry is pumped to the desired pressure and then the coal is dried prior to feeding the coal into the gasifier by contacting the slurry with superheated steam in an entrained bed dryer for vaporizing the water in the slurry.

Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
OSTI ID:
6379773
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English