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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1977
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eke Verschuur, Amsterdam, NL;
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
214152 ; 214 14 ; 214 / ;
Abstract
Method for the preparation of a wet load of coal with a bulk density of at least 700 kg/m.sup.3 by preparing briquettes containing less than 10% wt water from an aqueous slurry of coal fines, such as from a pipeline, and mixing the briquettes with wet coal fines or extrudates or agglomerates thereof containing up to 30% wt water. The briquettes can be prepared by dewatering the slurry, extrudating the obtained paste and briquetting the extrudates; or by agglomerating the coal fines, for example with naphtha, and briquetting the agglomerates, for example by removal of naphtha.