Howard University

Cq Inc.

Kenneth N Ekechukwu

David J Akers

Howard E Lebowitz

Mobolaji E Aluko

An improved process for removing mercury and other trace elements from coal containing pyrite by forming a slurry of finely divided coal in a liquid solvent capable of forming ions or radicals having a tendency to react with constituents of pyrite or to attack the bond between pyrite and coal and/or to react with mercury to form mercury vapors, and heating the slurry in a closed container to a temperature of at least about 50.degree. C. to produce vapors of the solvent and withdrawing vapors including solvent and mercury-containing vapors from the closed container, then separating mercury from the vapors withdrawn.

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Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Kenneth N Ekechukwu