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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:
Jul. 30, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Linda Atherton, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L / ; C10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
44594 ; 44501 ; 44608 ; 44626 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for removing moisture and improving the handling and storage characteristics or low-rank coal by demoisturizing the coal and rendering the coal surfaces hydrophobic, separating the fines and agglomerating the fines in a slurry.