K.e.m. Corporation

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Toyo Engineering Corporation

The Institute of Applied Energy

Katayama, Yukuo

Yukuo Katayama

Hidetsugu Fujii

Katsuya Uehara

Fumitake Watanabe

A method for dewatering a water-containing combustible solid excluding coal, comprising heating, in a sealed vessel, the water-containing combustible solid at a temperature of 100&#xb0; C. to 300&#xb0; C. under a pressure not less than a saturated steam pressure at said heating temperature, while applying a shearing force of 0.01 MPa to 20 MPa to said water-containing combustible solid. The method allows the production of a slurry in water which contains the water separated from the water-containing combustible solid and a combustible solid from which the water is removed, has a suitable viscosity and water content, and can be subjected to spray combustion, at low costs.

Method for dewatering a water-containing combustible solid

A method for dewatering water-containing coal which includes heating the water-containing coal at a temperature of 100 to 350&#xb0; C. under a pressure not less than a saturated steam pressure at the temperature for the heating, while applying a shearing force of 0.01 to 20 MPa to the coal, in a sealed vessel. The method is novel and allows the production of dewatered coal which is inhibited from reabsorbing water after dewatering and is also inhibited from absorbing oxygen after dewatering.

Method for dewatering water-containing coal

The present invention is a method for feeding a mixture comprising a burnable solid and water to a combustion furnace or gasification reactor, comprising heating the mixture with a heater to convert at least a part of the water in the mixture into a form of steam and feeding the whole mixture to a combustion furnace or gasification reactor, wherein the whole mixture is transferred between an inlet of the heater and the combustion furnace or gasification reactor by a pump, characterized in that a discharge pressure at the pump is higher than an inner pressure in the combustion furnace or gasification reactor at least by 1.5 MPa and not higher than 22.12 MPa, and that a flow rate of said mixture with at least a part of the water being in a form of steam is from 6 to 50 m/s in a pipe in the heater and in a pipe between an outlet of the heater and an inlet of the combustion furnace or gasification reactor. The present invention provides a method for feeding a mixture of a burnable solid and water to a combustion furnace or gasification reactor, comprising heating the mixture with a heater to convert at least a part of the water in the mixture into a form of steam and feeding the whole mixture to a combustion furnace or gasification reactor, wherein almost no abrasion is caused in the pipes where the mixture flows and a stable feed of the mixture to a combustion furnace of a gasification reactor is attained without sedimentation of the burnable solid.

Method for feeding a mixture comprising a burnable solid and water

A reformer for reacting a raw material gas to be reformed, with an oxidizing agent gas and a reforming agent gas in the presence of an oxidation catalyst and a reforming catalyst to obtain a hydrogen-containing gas, including: a set of catalyst layers consisting of an oxidation catalyst layer and a reforming catalyst layer, and two or more inlets for feeding the oxidizing agent gas to the oxidation catalyst and/or the reforming catalyst in plural stages. The reformer can produce a hydrogen-containing gas without forming a combustion region of a temperature of as high as one thousand and several hundreds centigrade and can be manufactured at a low cost.

Reformer

A method of the gasification of coal using oxygen and steam is provided wherein the coal is gasified at a temperature of from 1000 to 2500&#xb0; C. and a pressure of from 1 to 100 kg/cmusing oxygen generated by electrolyzing water and steam having a temperature of from 300 to 600&#xb0; C. attained by heat exchange heat with a high temperature gas generated by the coal gasification. In the method, a remarkably higher efficiency and low carbon dioxide emission is attained.

Method for the gasification of coal

A process is provided for the preparation of artificial zeolite comprising the steps of (a) mixing x kilograms of incineration ash or any other aluminosilicate-containing substance with y liters of an aqueous solution of alkali metalhydroxide having a concentration of 1 N or higher in a proportion, y/x, of from about 0.1 to about 1.5 (liter/kg) to prepare a slurry, and (b) heating the slurry to cause a zeolite forming reaction. Water is continuously or intermittently removed by evaporation so that a decrease in a concentration of alkali which would otherwise naturally occur during the reaction is at least suppressed to thereby facilitate the reaction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yukuo Katayama