Mineral Separation Technologies Inc. — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 20d
Mineral Separation Technologies Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Energy.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 20d
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001770
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- PA
- Period
- 2018-04-09 → 2018-10-08
Description
Traditional heavy-media methods of coal beneficiation are expensive and have inherent environmental liabilities- X-ray separation of coal is a promising new technology that cuts the cost from mine to market with no environmental liabilities- The efficiency of x-ray separation of coal should be improved by employing air valves with faster response times, but no data exists to quantify that improvement- Coal beneficiation processes separate rock and coal- The economic benefit of a coal beneficiation process is directly related to the efficiency of the process, which is the measure of the capacity of the process to correctly classify pieces of coal and rock- This project measures the increase in efficiency gained by upgrading a component in the x-ray separation chamber- Further, it creates the dataset necessary for coal mining companies to assess the economic benefit of the improved efficiency-