Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Integrated coal upgrading and slurry transport
- In
- Chemeca 82: Tenth Australian Chemical Engineering Conference 1982; Resource Developments in the Eighties.
- Imprint
- 1982, pp. 109-114
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.822551922940743
- Description
[This paper was awarded the John A Brodie Medal 1982]
- Abstract
IPTACCS is a joint development effort by BP Australia and BHP into oil agglomeration for coal beneficiation and its integration with coal slurry pipeline transport. The joint venture has constructed and operated a 30 tph agglomeration/pipelining facility at Newcastle and a 12 tph oil recovery unit is presently being commissioned. These units are of sufficient scale to allow ready scale-up to commercial applications of the technology. A 30 tph demonstration plant is also under construction which will feed a 60Mw{E} boiler and demonstrate the integration of IPTACCS technology with power station operations. A wide range of coking and steaming coals has been investigated at the laboratory and pilot plant scale and demonstrated as suitable for agglomeration. Data on selected coals and coal washing streams are presented in this paper. IPTACCS technology has potential in a wide range of applications and these are summarised. They vary from those of immediate importance, such as improving yields from existing coal operations by treating reject streams to those involving longer time scales, such as preparing coal feed-stocks for hydro-liquefaction plants. The ability of the technology to recover essentially all coal matter while carrying out a high degree of mineral matter reduction, is important in all these applications.