Complex system for utilizing coal in manufacture of char and raw material gas and electric power generation

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PATENT NO 9334458
APP PUB NO 20140030155A1
SERIAL NO

14005440

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Most of the abundant naturally occurring low rank coal, which has a high moisture content and a high oxygen content, is transported with poor efficiency; utilized for heating with degraded thermal efficiency because of the loss of heat due to sensible heat for heating moisture and latent heat for vaporizing moisture; and utilized in existing coal combustion facilities with difficulty due to a high volatile component content. A complex system of the present invention for utilizing coal for manufacture of char and raw material gas and electric power generation is adopted to include: a drying unit for drying low rank coal of a high moisture content; a reformer for reforming the low rank coal that has been dried in the drying unit; a fluidized bed combustor for employing, as a fuel, the reformed coal obtained in the reformer; a producer gas supply pipe for supplying a combustion exhaust gas from the fluidized bed combustor as a pyrolytic and gasifying agent to the reformer; and a catalyst reforming unit for reforming a volatile component and the producer gas obtained from the low rank coal reformed in the reformer.

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KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION744 MOTOOKA NISHI-KU FUKUOKA-SHI FUKUOKA 819-0395
KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO INC1-82 WATANABE-DORI 2-CHOME CHUO-KU FUKUOKA-SHI FUKUOKA 8108720

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Harada, Tatsuro Fukuoka, JP 19 97
Hayashi, Jun-ichiro Fukuoka, JP 4 23
Matsuda, Seiichiro Fukuoka, JP 4 8
Matsushita, Yohsuke Fukuoka, JP 3 7
Mochida, Isao Fukuoka, JP 29 223
Noguchi, Toshiro Fukuoka, JP 1 4
Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Fukuoka, JP 324 4081

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