1995 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 1-7
Victorian brown coal from Australia is not familiar to industry, except for local power generation, due to its.high moisture content (ca. 65wt%). The BCL project, which is based on direct coal liquefaction, has developed a slurry dewatering process aimed at drastic energy saving.
A 2t/d pilot plant was constructed at Morwell in Australia in 1989 and success-fully operated in order to develop this process. The operation results showed high dewatering and heat efficiency and proved that slurry-dewatering is a good pretreatment for brown coal liquefaction.
