CA1120897A - Pneumatically cleared rotating screen separation system - Google Patents
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S P E C I F I C A T I O N
Title of the Invention:
METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF COALS FOR
COKE PRODUCTION
Abstract of the Disclosure:
A method for classifying wet coal for obtaining coal charges suitable for use in a coke oven comprising classifying the wet coal directly in a cylindrical screen which rotates and revolves around an eccentric rotation shaft while blowing a high pressure gas stream to the screen to eliminate adhesion of the wet coal particles to the screen.
The method enables a continuous and consistent classirication of wet coals without the clogging of the screen and the dust pollution. The cokes obtained by dry distillation of the coal classified by the present method show high quality.
Title of the Invention:
METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF COALS FOR
COKE PRODUCTION
Abstract of the Disclosure:
A method for classifying wet coal for obtaining coal charges suitable for use in a coke oven comprising classifying the wet coal directly in a cylindrical screen which rotates and revolves around an eccentric rotation shaft while blowing a high pressure gas stream to the screen to eliminate adhesion of the wet coal particles to the screen.
The method enables a continuous and consistent classirication of wet coals without the clogging of the screen and the dust pollution. The cokes obtained by dry distillation of the coal classified by the present method show high quality.
Description
Ick~round of the Invention: ~lZ08~7 Fiel~ of the Invention:
The present invention relates to classification of wet ~oals for production of hlgh-quality coke suitable for use in a blast furnace.
Description of the Prior Art :
Conventionally, for production of coke for a blast furnace, the material coals (strongly coking coal and weakly coking coal) are mixed to obtain a mixture which is crushed and mixed and then charged into a coke oven for dry distillation.
- However, in recent years it has been increasingly difficult to secure ample amounts of the strongly coking coal and various technical developments have been made for the purpose of expanding the applicability of various grades of coals, among which a classi~ication-selective crushing method is well known.
Coals have different degrees of grindability depending on their constituents. Therefore, if they are crushed all together '! as conventionally done, relatively larger proportions of hard components, such as hard coal and durain having a lower coklng property are likely to be distributed in the resultant larger particles and these hard components form the nucleus of cracking in the coke during dry distillation, thus resulting in brittle cokes.
Meanwhile, the soft components, such as vitrain and clarain, are crushed unnecessarily.
Therefore, if coal particles rich in durain components whichare hard to be crushdare selectively and repeatedly crushed and mixed together appropriately, it is possible to obtain uniform coal charges and the resultant cokes are improved in their
The present invention relates to classification of wet ~oals for production of hlgh-quality coke suitable for use in a blast furnace.
Description of the Prior Art :
Conventionally, for production of coke for a blast furnace, the material coals (strongly coking coal and weakly coking coal) are mixed to obtain a mixture which is crushed and mixed and then charged into a coke oven for dry distillation.
- However, in recent years it has been increasingly difficult to secure ample amounts of the strongly coking coal and various technical developments have been made for the purpose of expanding the applicability of various grades of coals, among which a classi~ication-selective crushing method is well known.
Coals have different degrees of grindability depending on their constituents. Therefore, if they are crushed all together '! as conventionally done, relatively larger proportions of hard components, such as hard coal and durain having a lower coklng property are likely to be distributed in the resultant larger particles and these hard components form the nucleus of cracking in the coke during dry distillation, thus resulting in brittle cokes.
Meanwhile, the soft components, such as vitrain and clarain, are crushed unnecessarily.
Therefore, if coal particles rich in durain components whichare hard to be crushdare selectively and repeatedly crushed and mixed together appropriately, it is possible to obtain uniform coal charges and the resultant cokes are improved in their
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llZ08~7 quality, thus making possible to decrease the proportion of stxongly coking coals to be mixed in the charge.
However, for classification and selective crushing of the material coals, it is necessary to classify the coals first. In this case, when the material coals contain 6%
or less moisture, they can be classified by an ordinary vibration screen, but when their moisture contents are more than about 6%, they cannot be satisfactorily classified because they adhere and close the screen meshes. This is the reason why it has been rarely practised to classify and selectively crush the wet coals directly without pretreat-; ments. As pretreatments for enabling the classification, various methods have been proposed, and for example, as dis-~i closed in the Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 48-29601, dated September 12, 1973, in the name of Sumikin Kako Kabushiki Kaisha, a method is known, in which a coal drying machine is provided for drying the coals to a moisture con-tent ranging from 4 to 6% in advance to the screen device or a method is known, in which an electrically heated screen device is used.
i However, all of the above conventional arts have disadvantages that a large capacity of the drying equipment is required for drying a large amount of the-material coals to a moisture content less than 6%, that a large amount of energy is consumed, or that a short-time drying and caréful considerations against public pollution are required, and these conventional arts have been confronted with by a problem that if the moisture content of material coals can-not be uniformly lowered, the classification efficiency will be critically lowered.
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llZ08~7 quality, thus making possible to decrease the proportion of stxongly coking coals to be mixed in the charge.
However, for classification and selective crushing of the material coals, it is necessary to classify the coals first. In this case, when the material coals contain 6%
or less moisture, they can be classified by an ordinary vibration screen, but when their moisture contents are more than about 6%, they cannot be satisfactorily classified because they adhere and close the screen meshes. This is the reason why it has been rarely practised to classify and selectively crush the wet coals directly without pretreat-; ments. As pretreatments for enabling the classification, various methods have been proposed, and for example, as dis-~i closed in the Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 48-29601, dated September 12, 1973, in the name of Sumikin Kako Kabushiki Kaisha, a method is known, in which a coal drying machine is provided for drying the coals to a moisture con-tent ranging from 4 to 6% in advance to the screen device or a method is known, in which an electrically heated screen device is used.
i However, all of the above conventional arts have disadvantages that a large capacity of the drying equipment is required for drying a large amount of the-material coals to a moisture content less than 6%, that a large amount of energy is consumed, or that a short-time drying and caréful considerations against public pollution are required, and these conventional arts have been confronted with by a problem that if the moisture content of material coals can-not be uniformly lowered, the classification efficiency will be critically lowered.
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11'~0897 The present inventors have macle search for a classifier which can satisfactorily classify the wet coals, but found that none Or the conventional classifiers can classify the wet coals directly.
Then the present inventors have made ~arious extensive experiments on applicability of a rotary type of classifier to classi~ication of wet coals. This type of classifier shows a good classification efficiency and is of a compact size and almost free from dust generation. The results of the experiments have revealed that the classification of wet coals can be conti-nuously and satisfactorily performed if a high-pressure gas is blown to the screen meshes under specific conditions.
The material coals for coke production which are avail-able in Japan usually contain more than 6% moisture, depending on their origins, and their particle size distribution is that -3 mm mesh particle ranges from 30 to 80%.
According to the results of our experiments, the adhesion to the screen meshes of the above type of material coals differs depending on the moisture contents and the proportions of the fine particles. For example, when the proportion of the fine particles is constant, the adhesion to the screen meshes increases as ~he moisture content is raised, showing a peak at a moisture content from 11 to 12%, and thereafter, lowers and when the moisture content exceeds 14%, the classification becomes possible, but this level of moisture content is undesirable for charging in the coke oven. For charges in the coke oven, a lower moisture content is more desirable.
11'~08~7 Summary of the Invention:
Therefore, one of the objects of the present invention is to provide a method for classifying wet coals using a rotary type of classifier to obtain charges suitable for charging in a coke oven for production of cokes suitable for use in a hlast furnace.
According to the present invention, a single grade of wet coal or a mixture of wet coals of different grades is supplied into a cylindrical screen from its open top, and classified therein while the cylindrical screen is rotated and revolved almost in a vertical position, and while the cylindrical screen is rotated and revolved the screen is cleaned by a specific means In accordance with a specific embodiment of the invention, a method for classifying wet coal for coke production comprises: supplying the wet coal into a cylindrical screen, rotating and revolving the screen in an almost vertical position to subject the wet coal to gravity, centrifugal force and vibrating force, blowing a high pressure gas stream against the outer side of the screen, and vertically moving the blowing position of the gas stream to clean the screen while classification is being performed whereby the under-mesh and over-mesh coal fractions are obtained.
Brief Explanation of the Drawings:
Fig. l(A) shows a cross-sectional view o a rotary type classifier used ln the present invention.
Fig. l(B) shows a nozzle for blowing a high pressure gas against the screen meshes.
Fig. ~ is a graph showing the relation between the clogging of the screen meshes and the classification time.
Fig 3 shows one embodiment of the classification-selective crushing process according to the present invention.
11'~0~97 Detailed Descrip~ion Or the Invention:
T~le present inventlon will be described in detail referring to the attached drawings.
In Fig. l(A), when a vertical rotation shaft 2 is rotated by the driving force from a belt 1 and at the same time a pulley 4 is rotated around the rotation shaft 2 by the driving force from a belt 3, a screen device comprising a flexible ~oint 5, a supply plate 6, a sleeve 7 and a cylindrical screen 8 is revolved around the center Or the eccentric rotation shaft 2, which deviceisrotated at a ~aster rotation speed than that of the rotation shaft 2, so that the cylindrical screen 8 is subjected to vibration due to the combination of i-ts rotation and revolution around the eccentric rotation shaft 2 (eccentricity: 5 - 10 mm, and vibration amplitude of the screen : 10 - 20 mm).
When the wet coal to be classified is supplied from the supply openin~ 9, while the screen device is rotated (40 -; 150 rpm and revolved as above, it is subjected to the centrifugal force (3 - 5 G) the vibrating force and the gravity, so that the material repeatedly collides against the inside wall of the screen and is repelled back thereby and falls down, during which the material particles smaller than the sieve mesh pass through the screen, in this way, the material is classified. The classified materials, over-mesh and under-mesh, are discharged from the conduits 10 and 11 respectively. The upper face of the casing 12 is provided with an opening 16 through which a supply pipe 17 for supplying a compressed air is inserted. Along the whole length of the supply pipe 17, a plurality of air blowing nozzles 18, 18', 18". .... are .
08~7 acedly attached to the pipe with thelr top ends being directed to the outer side of the cylindrical screen 8. The nozzles are shown more speciflcally in Fig. l(B). These nozzles function to jet f]uxes of the air supplied from a compressed air supplying source (not shown) under a predetermined pressure. The number of the nozzles are not critical, and may be selected according to the necessity.
The upper portion of the supply pipe 17 protrudes from the casing 12 and is slidably supported by a guide member 19 mounted on the upper side of the casing 12. Also an arm 20 is fixed to the protruding upper portion of the supply pipe 17 and is connected to a piston rod 22 of a hydraulic cylinder 21 fixed to the side of the casing 12. When the cylinder 21 is actuated the supply pipe 17 moves up and down and hence the nozzles 18, 18', 18"...... move up and down parallel to the outer side of the cylindrical screen 8. The movement of these nozzles is limited between an upper limit and a lower limit by control-ling the operation range of the cylinder 21 by means of limit switches 23 and 24 provided on the guide member 19. The control of the vertical movement of the supply pipe 17 may be done by other conventional devices, such as by a conventional driving mechanisms.
Regarding the position at which the supply pipe 17 is placed in the peripheral direction of the screen device, the position below the material supplying opening 9 is more pre~
ferable. With this arrangement, the screen meshes are cleaned more effectively before the material coal is introduced in the cylindrical screen.
11'~08g7 The material coal supplied from the supply opening 9 is brought into contact mainly with the upper portion of the screen, and for this reason, it is desirable to arrange the nozzles on the supply pipe with decreasing pitches toward the upper portion of the supply pipe. The compressed air supply pipe 17 may be provided in any desired number.
When the classification of the coal is effected without the above cleaning of the screen meshes by means of the compressed air, it is impo~sible to avoid the clogging of the screen meshes by the wet coal particles even when the cylindrical screen 3 rotates and vibrates.
In Fig.2,there is shown how the classification efficiency is lowered by the adhesion of the coal particles to the screen depending on the moisture contents of the ~et material coal and the proportion of fine particles. In this case, a cylindrical screen of 3 mm mesh is used and "a" in the figure represents the material coal containing 12% moisture with the -3 mm mesh particle proportion of 78%, and "b" represents the coal containing 7% moisture with the -3 mm mesh particle proportion of 54%. The coal represented by "a" belongs to a grade which more easily adheres to the mesh among the coals used in Japan, and this coal "a" begins to show the lowering of classification efficiency in about 20 seconds a~ter the classi~ication is started in the cylindrical screen described above.
While the coal "b" which has less tendency to adhere to the screen begins to show the lowering of classi-fication efficiency in 5 minutes.
_ 8 -~20~7 In order to prevent the clogging of the screen meshes by the wet coal particles, it may be considered to give the particles a centrifugal force stronger than their adhesions, but this has been found not to be satisfactorily effective, and it causes difficulties in the mechanical structure.
When the air supply pipe is fixedly provided in the vertical direction of the rotary cylindrical screen and a number of the high-pressure gas ~et nozzles are provided on the fixed supply pipe, it will be necessary to use wide angle nozzles in order to cover the dead spaces between the nozzles, but in this case, satisfactory cleaning of the screen cannot be obtained when the gas veloclty lowers, and a larger amount of gas to be ~etted is required. Therefore, the inside pressure in the casing of a given capacity is increased, so that fine coal particles are blown back out of the material supply opening and blown into the opening for discharging the classified coal parti-cles, thus causing the problem of dust pollution.
According to the present invention, the compressed air supply pipe 17 having the nozzles, provided opposing to the outer side of the cylindrical screen is moved up and down, so as to move the high-pressure gas fluxes up and down while they are blown,so that the wet coal particles adhering to the screen meshes are effectively blown off and hence consistent and effectlve classification of wet coal can be achieved.
In this case, when the cleaning of cylindrical screen meshes is done with water ~et, this means addition of water to the coal being classified, thus causing lowered productivity of a coke oven due to the heat balance.
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;)897 Acc rding to the present invention, gas, such as air, is use~ ror the cleaning a~ent, and since the gas Jet has no ability to change the adhesion of the wet coal particles to the scre~en meshes, it can blow off the coal particles instantaneously by its physical Jet ~orce. Further, according to the present invention, as the compressed air nozzles are moved up and down it is possible to apply strong gas fluxes to the screen and at the same time, it is possible to reduce the number of nozzles considerably, thus overcoming the disadvantages caused when the nozzles are fixedly arranged.
The minimum ~requence of gas streams to be applied to the screen required for. satisfactory classification in the present invention may be illustrated below. In case of the examples shown in Fig. 2, supposing 10% mesh clogging is the upper limit ~or a satis~actory and consistent classification, the gas jet streams have to be blown only once every 20 seconds even in the case of the coal "a" containing a larger water content, and they have to be blown only once every 5 minutes in the case of the coal "b" containing a lower water content and thus less adhering.
In the practical operation, the nozzles may be continuously or intermittently moved up and down. Although the number of the nozzles is not critical in the present invention, when the nozzles cannot be moved up and down in a predetermined time due to the relation between the height of the cylindrical screen and its rotation speed, two or more supply pipes 17 may be provided and moved up and down alternately.
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For the selective crushing, the primary classi~ication is done by a 5 mm mesh screen, for example, the resultant +5 fractlon is crushed and subjected to the secondary classification using a 2 mm mesh screen, and the resultant +2 fraction is crushed as schematically shown in Fig. 3.
Both the fractions obtained by the primary classifica-tion and the secondary classification are mixed together and charged in a coke oven, where the coal particles rich in the durain component are selectively crushed and are uniformly dispersed to give coal charges having an excellent coking property, and hence the resultant coke after dry distillation shows a markedly improved quality.
Also, the process shown in Fig. 3 may be arranged in a double way and in one process the coal rich in the vitrain and clarain components is subjected to a primary classification using a 7 mm mesh screen, for example, and the resultant over-mesh fractlon is sub~ected to soft grinding followed by a secondary classificatlon using a 5 mm mesh screen and grinding.
By repeating the classification and grinding the coal is adjusted into somewhat large particles. In the other process, ; the coal rich in the durain component is subjected to a primary ' ' , 11208g7 classification using a 5 mm mesh screen and the resultant over-mesh frac~ion is subjected to grinding followed by a secondary classification using a 2 mm mesh screen. By repeating the above treatments, the coal rich in the durain component can be finely crushed. Then the large-particle coal and the finely crushed coal are mixed together at a predetermined proportion. In this way, charges having excellent coking and coking properties as well as a high density can be obtained.
When these charges are sub~ected to dry distillation in a coke oven, a high-quality of coke and a high degree of productivity can be assured. Also a high efficiency in the classification-selective orushing step can be assured.
Example 1:
The coal containing 3 mm or larger particles in an amount of 30% and less than 3 mm particles in an amount of 70%
and 10% total moisture content was directly supplied into a rotating cylindrical screen, as shown in Fig. 1 from the upper portion. The cylindrical screen was 1.2 m in height, and of 3 mm-mesh. The whole coal material was subiected to repeated classification and crushing by means of the classifier as shown in Fig. 1 and a repellent type crusher to obtain particles of 3 mm or less. During the classification air fluxes under a pressure of 55 kg/cm2 were blown to the outer side oP the cylindrical screen from a compressed air supply pipe having eight nozzles of 3.2 mm aperture arranged on the pipe with 150 mm pitch therebetween. These air fluxes were moved llZ~8g7 continuously up and down in the direction of the screen height at a speed of 20 seconds for one reciprocating ¦
movement.
During Eour continuous operation at a treating capacity of 100 t/hr, the classifier was stopped twice, namely one hour after the start of the operation and three hours after the start of the operation, to see the condition of the cylindrical screen, but no clogging of the meshes impairing the classi~ication was observed.
Whereas, when the air was continuously blown under a pressure of 4.9 kg/cm2 at a velocity of 25 m3/min. by using a stationary compressed air supply pipe having plural nozzles of 3 mm diameter arranged with 15 mm pitch therebetween, clogging of the screen meshes was observed about 30 minutes i after the start of the operation, and no further classification was possible.
The coke obtained by dry distillation of the coal having 3 mm or less particle size obtained by the classifica-tion according to the present invention showed strength of 1505 82%.
Meanwhile, the coke obtained by dry distillation of the same coal containing 85%, 3 mm or less particles without classification showed a strength of DI115 80%.
, - , ~Z(~g7 Example 2:
A blend of coals containing 3 mm or larger particles in an a~ount of 45%, partlcles less than 3 ~m in an amount of 55% and a total moisture content of about 7%
was supplied into a rotating cyllndrical screen of 5 mm mesh, as shown in Fig. l, and sub~ected to classification for one hour while air fluxes under a supply pressure of 6 kg/cm2 were blown to the outer side of the rotating screen inter-mittently by using a compressed air supply pipe having eight nozzles of 3.2 mm aperture diameter arranged with 150 mm pitch therebetween which was reclprocated in the direction of the screen height once every five minutes. During the operation, no clogging of the screen meshes was obser~ed.
Meanwhile, a blend of coals containing 30% of particles, 3 mm or larger, 70% of particles less than 3 mm and about 13% of a total moisture was directly supplied to another rotating cylindrical screen of 3 mm mesh and the air fluxes were blown under the same conditions just above mentioned to effect the classification for one hour to obtain the coal of 3 mm or less particles. During this operation no clogging of the screen mesh was observed.
The resultant mixture coke (50 : 50) showed a strength of DI115 84.5%.
For comparison, the same blend of coals was crushed so as to obtain 85% of -3 mm mesh particles without the classification and sub~ected to dry distillation. The resultant coke showed a strength of DI1155 83%.
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Meanwhile, when the stationary compressed alr supply pipe was used as referred to as comparison in Example 1, the clogging of the screen meshes was observed about 45 minutes after the start of the operation in the case of the 5 mm or less particle material and about 20 minutes after the start of the operation ln the case of the 3 mm or less particle material, and further classificatlon was impossible.
The above examples are for the purpose of lllust-rating the present invention for the ordinary coke production process, but the present invention should not be limlted by the types of coke production process, but can be applied to various coke production processes such as form coke process, .
preheating process, brlquette blend coking process and so on.
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11'~0897 The present inventors have macle search for a classifier which can satisfactorily classify the wet coals, but found that none Or the conventional classifiers can classify the wet coals directly.
Then the present inventors have made ~arious extensive experiments on applicability of a rotary type of classifier to classi~ication of wet coals. This type of classifier shows a good classification efficiency and is of a compact size and almost free from dust generation. The results of the experiments have revealed that the classification of wet coals can be conti-nuously and satisfactorily performed if a high-pressure gas is blown to the screen meshes under specific conditions.
The material coals for coke production which are avail-able in Japan usually contain more than 6% moisture, depending on their origins, and their particle size distribution is that -3 mm mesh particle ranges from 30 to 80%.
According to the results of our experiments, the adhesion to the screen meshes of the above type of material coals differs depending on the moisture contents and the proportions of the fine particles. For example, when the proportion of the fine particles is constant, the adhesion to the screen meshes increases as ~he moisture content is raised, showing a peak at a moisture content from 11 to 12%, and thereafter, lowers and when the moisture content exceeds 14%, the classification becomes possible, but this level of moisture content is undesirable for charging in the coke oven. For charges in the coke oven, a lower moisture content is more desirable.
11'~08~7 Summary of the Invention:
Therefore, one of the objects of the present invention is to provide a method for classifying wet coals using a rotary type of classifier to obtain charges suitable for charging in a coke oven for production of cokes suitable for use in a hlast furnace.
According to the present invention, a single grade of wet coal or a mixture of wet coals of different grades is supplied into a cylindrical screen from its open top, and classified therein while the cylindrical screen is rotated and revolved almost in a vertical position, and while the cylindrical screen is rotated and revolved the screen is cleaned by a specific means In accordance with a specific embodiment of the invention, a method for classifying wet coal for coke production comprises: supplying the wet coal into a cylindrical screen, rotating and revolving the screen in an almost vertical position to subject the wet coal to gravity, centrifugal force and vibrating force, blowing a high pressure gas stream against the outer side of the screen, and vertically moving the blowing position of the gas stream to clean the screen while classification is being performed whereby the under-mesh and over-mesh coal fractions are obtained.
Brief Explanation of the Drawings:
Fig. l(A) shows a cross-sectional view o a rotary type classifier used ln the present invention.
Fig. l(B) shows a nozzle for blowing a high pressure gas against the screen meshes.
Fig. ~ is a graph showing the relation between the clogging of the screen meshes and the classification time.
Fig 3 shows one embodiment of the classification-selective crushing process according to the present invention.
11'~0~97 Detailed Descrip~ion Or the Invention:
T~le present inventlon will be described in detail referring to the attached drawings.
In Fig. l(A), when a vertical rotation shaft 2 is rotated by the driving force from a belt 1 and at the same time a pulley 4 is rotated around the rotation shaft 2 by the driving force from a belt 3, a screen device comprising a flexible ~oint 5, a supply plate 6, a sleeve 7 and a cylindrical screen 8 is revolved around the center Or the eccentric rotation shaft 2, which deviceisrotated at a ~aster rotation speed than that of the rotation shaft 2, so that the cylindrical screen 8 is subjected to vibration due to the combination of i-ts rotation and revolution around the eccentric rotation shaft 2 (eccentricity: 5 - 10 mm, and vibration amplitude of the screen : 10 - 20 mm).
When the wet coal to be classified is supplied from the supply openin~ 9, while the screen device is rotated (40 -; 150 rpm and revolved as above, it is subjected to the centrifugal force (3 - 5 G) the vibrating force and the gravity, so that the material repeatedly collides against the inside wall of the screen and is repelled back thereby and falls down, during which the material particles smaller than the sieve mesh pass through the screen, in this way, the material is classified. The classified materials, over-mesh and under-mesh, are discharged from the conduits 10 and 11 respectively. The upper face of the casing 12 is provided with an opening 16 through which a supply pipe 17 for supplying a compressed air is inserted. Along the whole length of the supply pipe 17, a plurality of air blowing nozzles 18, 18', 18". .... are .
08~7 acedly attached to the pipe with thelr top ends being directed to the outer side of the cylindrical screen 8. The nozzles are shown more speciflcally in Fig. l(B). These nozzles function to jet f]uxes of the air supplied from a compressed air supplying source (not shown) under a predetermined pressure. The number of the nozzles are not critical, and may be selected according to the necessity.
The upper portion of the supply pipe 17 protrudes from the casing 12 and is slidably supported by a guide member 19 mounted on the upper side of the casing 12. Also an arm 20 is fixed to the protruding upper portion of the supply pipe 17 and is connected to a piston rod 22 of a hydraulic cylinder 21 fixed to the side of the casing 12. When the cylinder 21 is actuated the supply pipe 17 moves up and down and hence the nozzles 18, 18', 18"...... move up and down parallel to the outer side of the cylindrical screen 8. The movement of these nozzles is limited between an upper limit and a lower limit by control-ling the operation range of the cylinder 21 by means of limit switches 23 and 24 provided on the guide member 19. The control of the vertical movement of the supply pipe 17 may be done by other conventional devices, such as by a conventional driving mechanisms.
Regarding the position at which the supply pipe 17 is placed in the peripheral direction of the screen device, the position below the material supplying opening 9 is more pre~
ferable. With this arrangement, the screen meshes are cleaned more effectively before the material coal is introduced in the cylindrical screen.
11'~08g7 The material coal supplied from the supply opening 9 is brought into contact mainly with the upper portion of the screen, and for this reason, it is desirable to arrange the nozzles on the supply pipe with decreasing pitches toward the upper portion of the supply pipe. The compressed air supply pipe 17 may be provided in any desired number.
When the classification of the coal is effected without the above cleaning of the screen meshes by means of the compressed air, it is impo~sible to avoid the clogging of the screen meshes by the wet coal particles even when the cylindrical screen 3 rotates and vibrates.
In Fig.2,there is shown how the classification efficiency is lowered by the adhesion of the coal particles to the screen depending on the moisture contents of the ~et material coal and the proportion of fine particles. In this case, a cylindrical screen of 3 mm mesh is used and "a" in the figure represents the material coal containing 12% moisture with the -3 mm mesh particle proportion of 78%, and "b" represents the coal containing 7% moisture with the -3 mm mesh particle proportion of 54%. The coal represented by "a" belongs to a grade which more easily adheres to the mesh among the coals used in Japan, and this coal "a" begins to show the lowering of classification efficiency in about 20 seconds a~ter the classi~ication is started in the cylindrical screen described above.
While the coal "b" which has less tendency to adhere to the screen begins to show the lowering of classi-fication efficiency in 5 minutes.
_ 8 -~20~7 In order to prevent the clogging of the screen meshes by the wet coal particles, it may be considered to give the particles a centrifugal force stronger than their adhesions, but this has been found not to be satisfactorily effective, and it causes difficulties in the mechanical structure.
When the air supply pipe is fixedly provided in the vertical direction of the rotary cylindrical screen and a number of the high-pressure gas ~et nozzles are provided on the fixed supply pipe, it will be necessary to use wide angle nozzles in order to cover the dead spaces between the nozzles, but in this case, satisfactory cleaning of the screen cannot be obtained when the gas veloclty lowers, and a larger amount of gas to be ~etted is required. Therefore, the inside pressure in the casing of a given capacity is increased, so that fine coal particles are blown back out of the material supply opening and blown into the opening for discharging the classified coal parti-cles, thus causing the problem of dust pollution.
According to the present invention, the compressed air supply pipe 17 having the nozzles, provided opposing to the outer side of the cylindrical screen is moved up and down, so as to move the high-pressure gas fluxes up and down while they are blown,so that the wet coal particles adhering to the screen meshes are effectively blown off and hence consistent and effectlve classification of wet coal can be achieved.
In this case, when the cleaning of cylindrical screen meshes is done with water ~et, this means addition of water to the coal being classified, thus causing lowered productivity of a coke oven due to the heat balance.
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;)897 Acc rding to the present invention, gas, such as air, is use~ ror the cleaning a~ent, and since the gas Jet has no ability to change the adhesion of the wet coal particles to the scre~en meshes, it can blow off the coal particles instantaneously by its physical Jet ~orce. Further, according to the present invention, as the compressed air nozzles are moved up and down it is possible to apply strong gas fluxes to the screen and at the same time, it is possible to reduce the number of nozzles considerably, thus overcoming the disadvantages caused when the nozzles are fixedly arranged.
The minimum ~requence of gas streams to be applied to the screen required for. satisfactory classification in the present invention may be illustrated below. In case of the examples shown in Fig. 2, supposing 10% mesh clogging is the upper limit ~or a satis~actory and consistent classification, the gas jet streams have to be blown only once every 20 seconds even in the case of the coal "a" containing a larger water content, and they have to be blown only once every 5 minutes in the case of the coal "b" containing a lower water content and thus less adhering.
In the practical operation, the nozzles may be continuously or intermittently moved up and down. Although the number of the nozzles is not critical in the present invention, when the nozzles cannot be moved up and down in a predetermined time due to the relation between the height of the cylindrical screen and its rotation speed, two or more supply pipes 17 may be provided and moved up and down alternately.
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8g7 Through the above ~escribed operation, the wet coal is dlrectly classiried and the fraction of the coal which does not pass the screen and is discharged from the inside of the cylindrical screen is usually crushed by an ordinary crusher. And this crushed material is again classified by the classifier means so as to enable selective crushing.
For the selective crushing, the primary classi~ication is done by a 5 mm mesh screen, for example, the resultant +5 fractlon is crushed and subjected to the secondary classification using a 2 mm mesh screen, and the resultant +2 fraction is crushed as schematically shown in Fig. 3.
Both the fractions obtained by the primary classifica-tion and the secondary classification are mixed together and charged in a coke oven, where the coal particles rich in the durain component are selectively crushed and are uniformly dispersed to give coal charges having an excellent coking property, and hence the resultant coke after dry distillation shows a markedly improved quality.
Also, the process shown in Fig. 3 may be arranged in a double way and in one process the coal rich in the vitrain and clarain components is subjected to a primary classification using a 7 mm mesh screen, for example, and the resultant over-mesh fractlon is sub~ected to soft grinding followed by a secondary classificatlon using a 5 mm mesh screen and grinding.
By repeating the classification and grinding the coal is adjusted into somewhat large particles. In the other process, ; the coal rich in the durain component is subjected to a primary ' ' , 11208g7 classification using a 5 mm mesh screen and the resultant over-mesh frac~ion is subjected to grinding followed by a secondary classification using a 2 mm mesh screen. By repeating the above treatments, the coal rich in the durain component can be finely crushed. Then the large-particle coal and the finely crushed coal are mixed together at a predetermined proportion. In this way, charges having excellent coking and coking properties as well as a high density can be obtained.
When these charges are sub~ected to dry distillation in a coke oven, a high-quality of coke and a high degree of productivity can be assured. Also a high efficiency in the classification-selective orushing step can be assured.
Example 1:
The coal containing 3 mm or larger particles in an amount of 30% and less than 3 mm particles in an amount of 70%
and 10% total moisture content was directly supplied into a rotating cylindrical screen, as shown in Fig. 1 from the upper portion. The cylindrical screen was 1.2 m in height, and of 3 mm-mesh. The whole coal material was subiected to repeated classification and crushing by means of the classifier as shown in Fig. 1 and a repellent type crusher to obtain particles of 3 mm or less. During the classification air fluxes under a pressure of 55 kg/cm2 were blown to the outer side oP the cylindrical screen from a compressed air supply pipe having eight nozzles of 3.2 mm aperture arranged on the pipe with 150 mm pitch therebetween. These air fluxes were moved llZ~8g7 continuously up and down in the direction of the screen height at a speed of 20 seconds for one reciprocating ¦
movement.
During Eour continuous operation at a treating capacity of 100 t/hr, the classifier was stopped twice, namely one hour after the start of the operation and three hours after the start of the operation, to see the condition of the cylindrical screen, but no clogging of the meshes impairing the classi~ication was observed.
Whereas, when the air was continuously blown under a pressure of 4.9 kg/cm2 at a velocity of 25 m3/min. by using a stationary compressed air supply pipe having plural nozzles of 3 mm diameter arranged with 15 mm pitch therebetween, clogging of the screen meshes was observed about 30 minutes i after the start of the operation, and no further classification was possible.
The coke obtained by dry distillation of the coal having 3 mm or less particle size obtained by the classifica-tion according to the present invention showed strength of 1505 82%.
Meanwhile, the coke obtained by dry distillation of the same coal containing 85%, 3 mm or less particles without classification showed a strength of DI115 80%.
, - , ~Z(~g7 Example 2:
A blend of coals containing 3 mm or larger particles in an a~ount of 45%, partlcles less than 3 ~m in an amount of 55% and a total moisture content of about 7%
was supplied into a rotating cyllndrical screen of 5 mm mesh, as shown in Fig. l, and sub~ected to classification for one hour while air fluxes under a supply pressure of 6 kg/cm2 were blown to the outer side of the rotating screen inter-mittently by using a compressed air supply pipe having eight nozzles of 3.2 mm aperture diameter arranged with 150 mm pitch therebetween which was reclprocated in the direction of the screen height once every five minutes. During the operation, no clogging of the screen meshes was obser~ed.
Meanwhile, a blend of coals containing 30% of particles, 3 mm or larger, 70% of particles less than 3 mm and about 13% of a total moisture was directly supplied to another rotating cylindrical screen of 3 mm mesh and the air fluxes were blown under the same conditions just above mentioned to effect the classification for one hour to obtain the coal of 3 mm or less particles. During this operation no clogging of the screen mesh was observed.
The resultant mixture coke (50 : 50) showed a strength of DI115 84.5%.
For comparison, the same blend of coals was crushed so as to obtain 85% of -3 mm mesh particles without the classification and sub~ected to dry distillation. The resultant coke showed a strength of DI1155 83%.
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- 14 _ 11~0897 If the classlfication according to the present invention is performed in such a mode to assure the strength of DI115 83%, it is possible to save the strongly coking coal by about 10%.
Meanwhile, when the stationary compressed alr supply pipe was used as referred to as comparison in Example 1, the clogging of the screen meshes was observed about 45 minutes after the start of the operation in the case of the 5 mm or less particle material and about 20 minutes after the start of the operation ln the case of the 3 mm or less particle material, and further classificatlon was impossible.
The above examples are for the purpose of lllust-rating the present invention for the ordinary coke production process, but the present invention should not be limlted by the types of coke production process, but can be applied to various coke production processes such as form coke process, .
preheating process, brlquette blend coking process and so on.
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Claims (3)
1. A method for classifying wet coal for coke production comprising:
supplying the wet coal into a cylindrical screen, rotating and revolving the screen in an almost vertical posi-tion to subject the wet coal to gravity, centrifugal force and vibrating force, blowing a high pressure gas stream against the outer side of the screen, and vertically moving the blowing position of the gas stream to clean the screen while classification is being performed whereby the under-mesh and over-mesh coal fractions are obtained.
supplying the wet coal into a cylindrical screen, rotating and revolving the screen in an almost vertical posi-tion to subject the wet coal to gravity, centrifugal force and vibrating force, blowing a high pressure gas stream against the outer side of the screen, and vertically moving the blowing position of the gas stream to clean the screen while classification is being performed whereby the under-mesh and over-mesh coal fractions are obtained.
2. A method according to claim 1 in which the over-mesh coal fraction after a primary classification is ground and subjected to a secondary classification using a screen mesh smaller than the screen mesh used in the primary classi-fication, and the grinding and classification are repeated until the over-mesh coal fraction after the secondary classi-fication passes the screen mesh of the secondary classification.
3. A method according to claim 2 in which a wet coal material rich in vitrain and clarain and a wet coal material rich in durain are independently ground and classified in the primary classification, the first classification and the second classification being arranged in parallel, and the screen mesh used in the classification of the wet coal material rich in duration is smaller than the screen mesh used in the classification of the wet coal material rich in vitrain and clarain.
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