A process for the gasification of a solid carbon-containing fuel

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EP 0 092 856 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	04.07.1984 Bulletin 1984/27

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	02.11.1983 Bulletin 1983/44

(21)	Application number: 83200434

(22)	Date of filing: 28.03.1983

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	BE DE FR GB IT

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Priority:

26.04.1982 NL 8201715

(71)	Applicant: SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.
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(72)	Inventor:
	Bodewes, Johannes Mattheus Maria ()

(54)	A process for the gasification of a solid carbon-containing fuel

(57) Coal is ground, dried and subsequently subjected to a partial combustion with oxygen or oxygen-enriched air, the oxygen having been obtained from an air separation plant. Hot synthesis gas produced by the partial combustion is first cooled to 100-500°C and then further cooled to 25-250°C by means of indirect heat exchange with a nitrogen-rich gas stream obtained in the air separation plant. Preferably, the heated nitrogen-rich gas stream is used to dry the coal.

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