Title: Preparation of a wet load of coal for transport and storage

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 110% 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.

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Inventors: Verschuur, Eke (Amsterdam, NL)

Application Number: 513968
Filing Date: 1974-10-11
Publication_date: 1976-05-18
Assignee: Shell Oil Company (Houston, TX)
Primary Class(es): 44/280 44/500, 44/504, 414/139.4
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US Patent Ref:

1618248	Feb, 1927	Walton	44/23.
1659692	Feb, 1928	Kitchen	44/1.
1908910	May, 1933	Maurel	44/23.
2359325	Oct, 1944	McConnell et al.	44/1.
2416476	Feb, 1947	Fuchs	44/10.

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Primary Examiner: Dees, Carl F.
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