Plant for preparing and hydrolyzing fossil fuels to prepare products low in sulfur content, and employment of these products for a combined generation of the electric current and gas

Claim 1

A plant for producing solid and gaseous desulfurized fossil fuels for use in a gas power plant and a steam power plant for electric current generation, said plant comprising operatively interconnected components sequentially including in combination: crusher means for crushing the fuel to a particle size not to exceed 0.1 mm., a vapor separator, means for supplying hot, substantially inert, flue gas to the crusher means to convey the crushed fuel to the separator with simultaneous evaporation of moisture therefrom, a preoxidation station, means to convey said fuel to said preoxidation station, means to supply heated air to said preoxidation station to oxidize said fuel, a separator for separating the air from said oxidized fuel, a reaction chamber station and means to supply said chamber with the pre-oxidized fuel and in which chamber the gas content of the fuel is adjusted, means for supplying steam to said reaction chamber station to hydrolyze the fuel, a separator station past said reaction chamber station to separate the oxidized fuel from gas, an additional gas driven conveyor and distributor means for distributing the solid product from said reaction chamber station to the steam generator plant, means for extensively desulfurizing gas leaving said separator from said reaction chamber station, distributor means for distributing said desulfurized gas to said gas power plant and at least a portion of said gas to said steam generator plant.