Systems for producing advanced carbon materials at carbon source locations
AssigneeRamaco Carbon, LLC
InventorsCharles Agee Atkins, Garrett W. Lindemann, Matthew Targett
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Abstract
A method of producing advanced carbon materials can include extracting a coal sample from a location, performing a spectral analysis on the coal sample, determining one or more desired advanced carbon materials based at least in part on spectral analysis, extracting an amount of coal from the location, beneficiating the amount of coal, and processing the beneficiated amount of coal to produce the one or more desired advanced carbon materials from at least some of the amount of coal.
Claims20
A method of producing an advanced carbon material, comprising:
- extracting a coal sample from a location;
- performing a spectral analysis on the coal sample to determine one or more of a hydrogen to carbon ratio of the coal sample, a concentration of a contaminant in the coal sample, and a concentration of water in the coal sample;
- determining one or more desired advanced carbon materials based at least in part on one or more of the hydrogen to carbon ratio of the coal sample, the concentration of a contaminant in the coal sample, and the concentration of water in the coal sample;
- extracting an amount of coal from the location;
- beneficiating the amount of coal;
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- processing the beneficiated amount of coal to produce the one or more desired advanced carbon materials from at least some of the amount of coal.
A method of producing an advanced carbon material, comprising:
- extracting a coal sample from a location;
- performing a spectral analysis on the coal sample to determine one or more of a hydrogen to carbon ratio of the coal sample, a concentration of a contaminant in the coal sample, and a concentration of water in the coal sample;
- characterizing one or more processes based at least in part on one or more of the hydrogen to carbon ratio of the coal sample, the concentration of a contaminant in the coal sample, and the concentration of water in the coal sample;
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- performing the one or more processes on coal extracted from the location to produce the advanced carbon material.
A method of producing an advanced carbon material, comprising:
- beneficiating an amount of coal at a processing facility to remove a desired amount of impurities therefrom;
- processing the beneficiated coal at the processing facility to produce an advanced carbon material or advanced carbon material precursor;
- capturing one or more byproducts at the processing facility while beneficiating or processing the coal;
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- repeating one or more of beneficiating and processing the coal using the captured byproducts to produce the advanced carbon material or advanced carbon material precursors.
A method of producing an advanced carbon material, comprising:
- performing one or more processes on a first amount of coal at a processing facility to reduce a hydrogen to carbon ratio of at least some of the first amount of coal;
- capturing one or more byproducts at the processing facility while performing the one or more processes on the first amount of coal;
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- performing one or more processes on a second, different amount of coal at the processing facility using the one or more captured byproducts to reduce a hydrogen to carbon ratio of at least some of the second amount of coal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.