Fuel pellets
OwnerCharles Reilly, Richard G. Baileyinventors
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Abstract
Pellet material and a process for producing such pellet material, which pellet material is suitable for use as an improved fuel that is particularly suitable for use in automatic stoker furnaces and kilns, and for home heating. The pellets are formed of a mixture of particulate peat and coal fines, with the peat serving both as a binder to retain the shape of the pellets and as a fuel material. The process of forming the pellets consists of air drying and then milling or grinding peat, mixing this particulate matter with coal fines or ground sludge material, and then pelletizing the resulting mixture in a pelletizer such as a pellet mill, with the pellets then air-dried to reduce the moisture content to a range of about 10% to 15% by weight.
Claims10
A process for producing a fuel material which may be readily transported comprising the following steps:
- a. Make a particulate composition of a peat binder material of combustible properties,
- b. Dry the ground binder material to remove excessive moisture,
- c. Mixt a particulate coal or dry sludge fuel material with the said particulate binder material,
- d. Pelletize this mixture in a pelletizer type machine so as to produce pellets,
- e. Dry the pellets to further reduce the moisture content of the pellets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.