Methods and systems for treating carbonaceous materials
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnnavarapu Vijay Bharat Sastri, Richard Anthony DePuy, Sudharsanam Krishnamachari, Vijayalakshmi Shah, Ankur Verma
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Abstract
A method for treating a carbonaceous material comprising heating a carbonaceous material to form a mixture of the carbonaceous material and a tar; cooling the mixture of the carbonaceous material and the tar; and coating a surface of the carbonaceous material with the tar to form a tar-coated carbonaceous material, and a system related thereto.
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A method for treating a carbonaceous material, comprising:
- heating, with electromagnetic energy in a heating region, a carbonaceous material to form a mixture of the carbonaceous material and a tar;
- cooling, in a cooling region, the mixture of the carbonaceous material and the tar;
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- coating a surface of the carbonaceous material with at least a portion of the tar to form a tar-coated carbonaceous material.
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A system for treating a carbonaceous material, comprising:
- a heating region, wherein the heating region comprises an electromagnetic energy source configured to heat a carbonaceous material to form a mixture of the carbonaceous material and a tar;
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- a cooling region downstream from the heating region, wherein the cooling region comprises a cooling source configured to cool the mixture of the carbonaceous material and the tar, and to help form a tar coating on a surface of the carbonaceous material with the tar to form a tar-coated carbonaceous material.
A system, comprising:
- a heating region configured to heat a carbonaceous material having ash and tar to form a mixture of the carbonaceous material and the tar;
- a cooling region downstream from the heating region, wherein the cooling region is configured to cool the carbonaceous material, the ash, and the tar to help form a tar coating of the tar on a surface of the carbonaceous material to form a tar-coated carbonaceous material;
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- an ash-removal region downstream of the cooling region, wherein the ash-removal region comprises a liquid wash system configured to remove the ash, and the tar coating helps the liquid wash system to remove the ash.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.