Patent ID: 9090843
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: C10L

Abstract:
1. A solid fuel production apparatus comprising: a mixing vessel in which an oil containing a solvent oil is mixed with a coal to prepare a raw material slurry, wherein neither the oil nor the solvent oil includes any heavy oil, wherein the heavy oil is an oil having a component that has substantially no vapor pressure at 400° C.; an evaporator that evaporates moisture from the raw material slurry, wherein said apparatus is configured such that no heavy oil is added to the raw material slurry prior to the slurry reaching the evaporator; a solid-liquid separation means for performing solid-liquid separation on the slurry from which moisture has been evaporated; and an addition means for adding a heavy oil to the solid fuel after the completion of, or in the course of, evaporating moisture.