Remember, there are two processes- Pristine and Pristine M. It's up to the customers to decide which one they want. Some coal has a 45+% moisture content so just removing the moisture will save a ton of money on shipping alone.
'Low rank coal tends to have a high moisture content, which makes the coal much less efficient when used in a coal-fired plant for energy production. Unfortunately, with most existing technologies, upgraded coal that has had its moisture removed tends to spontaneously combust and reabsorbs moistures in both transportation and storage. Furthermore, traditional upgrade technologies involve the pulverization of coal and briquetting it back into a solid form, which is exceedingly expensive and time consuming.
Clean Coal Technologies? Pristine-M? process uses patented technology to solve these problems before it reaches the end user, and does so very cost-effectively. This unique process is designed to remove moisture from coal and produce a coal of exceptional stability, i.e., one that is able to be transported safely over long distances and without re-absorbing moisture. Unlike most competing processes, Clean Coal does not involve pulverization and subsequent briquetting of the coal. Instead, the company?s ?Vapor Phase Deposition? process allows for the increase of the calorific content of the raw coal beyond what would be achieved naturally by the removal of moisture alone.
In addition, Clean Coal?s second technology, the Pristine? process, addresses the issue of volatile chemicals in coal. By extracting theses chemicals, Clean Coal significantly reduced levels of toxic air pollutant precursors, such as sulfur and mercury. The Pristine? process also produce liquid byproducts that contain hydrocarbon compounds that, via chemical synthesis, may be converted into commodity chemicals for an additional revenue stream.'
