Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd.

Nobuo Yoshii

Etsuo Ogino

Kazuo Harada

A granulating apparatus comprising a stirring tank or a duct for containing a slurry of particulate to granular coal having a binder incorporated therein, a rotary shaft disposed in the tank or duct and at least one agitating blade made of metal netting and attached to the rotary shaft.

Apparatus for granulating coal

Fine coal particles are recovered from a slurry of finely divided coal by mixing coarsely divided coal and a binder together to cause the binder to adhere to the surfaces of the coarsely divided coal pieces, mixing the slurry with the coal pieces having the binder adhered thereto to cause fine coal particles to adhere to the binder over the surfaces of the coal pieces serving as nuclei and thereby form agglomerates, and separating the agglomerates from the remaining slurry portion to recover the fine coal particles along with the coarsely divided coal and the binder.

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Osaka, Japan

Nobuo Yoshii