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US 7,111,575 B2Granted
Synthetic fuel plant
OwnerCharles Douglas McGinnisinventor
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Abstract
A self-contained, floating, waterway supplied and moveable synthetic fuel plant includes apparatus for receiving components of and for making synthetic fuel of coal and binder for energy consumers. Processes are disclosed.
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A self-contained, floating synthetic fuel plant in an inland waterway and including:
- an elongated inland barge;
- apparatus for unloading non-slurry coal from a coal supply barge onto said elongated barge in an inland waterway;
- apparatus on said elongated barge for applying binder to treat coal unloaded from said coal supply barge;
- apparatus on said elongated barge for forming briquets of synthetic fuel comprising coal and binder;
- and
- apparatus for discharging synthetic fuel from said elongated barge onto a synthetic fuel delivery barge in an inland waterway.
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Apparatus for making synthetic fuel of coal and a binder and comprising:
- a self-containing floating synthetic fuel plant situated in an inland waterway;
- at least one station proximate said plant for unloading coal from a coal delivery barge in an inland waterway
- means on said plant for manufacturing synthetic fuel;
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- at least one discharge station proximate said plant for discharging synthetic fuel onto a synthetic fuel delivery barge in an inland waterway.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.