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Title: CALDERON COKEMAKING PROCESS/DEMONSTRATION PROJECT

Abstract

This project which deals with the demonstration of a full size commercial coking retort using Calderon's proprietary technology for making metallurgical coke ran into a commercialization problem by virtue that the designed retort for two (2) tons of coke/hour necessitates thirty-two (32) retorts to produce the 500,000 tons of coke per year for a commercial plant. Bechtel Mining and Metals prepared a cost estimate of the commercial plant which indicated the commercial plant would not be economically feasible. The activity during this reporting period was directed to making changes to the design of the coking retort in order to reduce the number of retorts required for a 500,000 ton/year commercial coke facility. The result of this activity resulted in the drastic reduction of the number of retorts to eight (8) with each retort projected to produce 8.17 tons of coke/hour. Such decrease in number of retorts makes the Calderon technology quite competitive and therefore commercially feasible.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC), Morgantown, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
7469
Report Number(s):
DE-FC22-95PC92638-05
ON: DE00007469
DOE Contract Number:  
FC22-95PC92638
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; Coking; Retorts; Demonstration Programs; Progress Report

Citation Formats

CALDERON, ALBERT. CALDERON COKEMAKING PROCESS/DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. United States: N. p., 1996. Web. doi:10.2172/7469.
CALDERON, ALBERT. CALDERON COKEMAKING PROCESS/DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7469
CALDERON, ALBERT. 1996. "CALDERON COKEMAKING PROCESS/DEMONSTRATION PROJECT". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7469. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7469.
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title = {CALDERON COKEMAKING PROCESS/DEMONSTRATION PROJECT},
author = {CALDERON, ALBERT},
abstractNote = {This project which deals with the demonstration of a full size commercial coking retort using Calderon's proprietary technology for making metallurgical coke ran into a commercialization problem by virtue that the designed retort for two (2) tons of coke/hour necessitates thirty-two (32) retorts to produce the 500,000 tons of coke per year for a commercial plant. Bechtel Mining and Metals prepared a cost estimate of the commercial plant which indicated the commercial plant would not be economically feasible. The activity during this reporting period was directed to making changes to the design of the coking retort in order to reduce the number of retorts required for a 500,000 ton/year commercial coke facility. The result of this activity resulted in the drastic reduction of the number of retorts to eight (8) with each retort projected to produce 8.17 tons of coke/hour. Such decrease in number of retorts makes the Calderon technology quite competitive and therefore commercially feasible.},
doi = {10.2172/7469},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Tue Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
}