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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2014
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe-shi, JP;
Noriyuki Okuyama, Hyogo, JP;
Koji Sakai, Hyogo, JP;
Takuya Yoshida, Hyogo, JP;
Shigeru Kinoshita, Hyogo, JP;
Maki Hamaguchi, Hyogo, JP;
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe-shi, JP;
Abstract
A production apparatus of an ashless coal includes a preheater, an extraction tank, a feed pipe, a solid-liquid separator and a solvent separator. The preheater heats a solvent. The extraction tank extracts a coal component soluble in the solvent from a slurry including a mixture of a coal and the solvent heated by the preheater. The coal feeding unit feeds the coal to the feed pipe by pressuring a feed part to the feed pipe such that the solvent does not flow back. The solid-liquid separator separates a solution part containing the coal component from the slurry. The solvent separator evaporates and separates the solvent from the solution part to obtain an ashless coal.