University of Nottingham

Tata Steel Limited

Promethean Particles Limited

Edward Henry Lester

Thomas Huddle

Samuel Kingman

Christopher Dodds

Pratik Swarup Dash

Bidyut Das

Sanjay Chandra

Orla Williams

Munish Sudan

Barry James Azzopardi

Atanu Ranjan Pal

Eleanor Binner

The present disclosure relates to a method for producing metallurgical coke from non-coking coal. The method comprising, densifying, the non-coking coal to form pellets. The densified pellets will be placed in a microwave oven within plurality of bricks and are subjected for pyrolysis. For carrying our pyrolysis, the pellets are carried out by heating, the pellets in the microwave oven at a predetermined temperature under an inert atmosphere at atmospheric pressure, and then the pellets are cooled in the microwave oven under the inert atmosphere. This process coverts non-coking coal to the metallurgical coke in a quicker time, and without use of any susceptors.

Method for producing metallurgical coke from non-coking coal

A mixing reactor for precipitating nanoparticles by mixing a precursor fluid with a second fluid at a higher temperature than the precursor fluid. The reactor comprises: a first fluid conduit with an inlet region configured to receive a flow of the precursor fluid, and an outlet region configured to output a mixed flow; and a second fluid conduit configured to receive a flow of the second fluid. The second fluid conduit extends into the first fluid conduit in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flow within the first fluid conduit, and has an opening for introducing the second fluid into the first fluid conduit. Related processes for producing nanoparticles are disclosed.

Mixing reactor and related process

A mixing reactor (), the reactor comprising a body () having a first inlet (), a second inlet () and an outlet (), in which there is an inner passage () through the body () from the first inlet () at a first end () of the body () to the outlet () at a second end of the body () along a length of the body (), the inner passage () having a side wall () along the length, and an outer passage () closer to a surface () of the body () than the inner passage (), the outer passage () running from the second inlet () at the second end, travelling through the body () along the length and meeting the inner passage () at a junction () at the first end, the outer passage () joining the inner passage () through the side wall () at the junction (). Such a mixing reactor can be used for producing particles such as nanoparticles or Metal-Organic frameworks. Furthermore, we disclose a cascade of such reactors and a method of using such reactors to mix fluids, typically but non-exclusively so as to produce such particles.

Mixing reactor and method

A mixing reactor for mixing efficiently streams of fluids of differing densities. In a preferred embodiment, one of the fluids is supercritical water, and the other is an aqueous salt solution. Thus, the reactor enables the production of metal oxide nanoparticles as a continuous process, without any risk of the reactor blocking due to the inefficient mixing inherent in existing reactor designs.

Counter current mixing reactor

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Edward Henry Lester