Solid fuel agglomerates are prepared of particulate coal or other carbonaceous material with a binder having a high humic acid or humate salt content. The humic acid is extracted from oxidized carbonaceous material with a mild aqueous alkali solution of, for instance, ammonia. The particulate material is blended with the extract which serves as the binder for the agglomerates. The water-resistant agglomerates are formed such as by pelletizing, followed by drying to remove moisture and solidify the humic acid binder throughout the agglomerate.

Fuel agglomerates and method of agglomeration

A perfectly water-proof, clean, safe and hygienic briquette easily ignitable with match flame, having a layer of nitrocotton and/or cellulose acetate on the surface of a molded product of powders of a combustible solid material and an oxidizing agent, said product being bound by nitrocotton and/or cellulose acetate or a wax.

Water-proof briquette and method for production thereof

Process for the preparation of a water-resistant fuel agglomerate, characterized by the fact: that there are employed a finely divided fuel material, an organic binder and an oxidizing agent, that the oxidizing agent is mixed with either the fuel material, or the organic binder, or with one or other of these products or their mixture, that the mixture so obtained is subjected to an agglomeration treatment, and that the agglomerate obtained at the end of the agglomeration treatment is subjected to a stoving treatment.

Process for the preparation of a water-resistant fuel agglomerate

A fuel article, suitable for barbecuing, allowing greater burning efficiency and the method of making such a fuel article. The fuel article includes anthracite coal for cleaner burning and utilizes an accelerant covering containing nitrates to be amenable to easy ignition.

Combustible fuel composition and method

An immediate slow burning granular composite for firing up fireplace logs and kindling wood. The composite is wrapped in a cellophane film and packaged in an aluminum tray to be placed beneath the grate of the fireplace. Upon lighting the composite, a constantly increasing flame ensues, which ignites the logs and kindling wood within the grate. One pound of the composite burns for approximately one hour. The composite consists of wood by-products, hydrocarbons, liquid fuel, scent producing materials, and hydrocarbon impregnated particulate ammonium nitrate.

Fireplace starter composition

A water-proof ignitor charcoal briquette, and the method of manufacture thereof, composed of charcoal and other charred or carbon fuel in powder form, homogeneously mixed with pulp powder impregnated in a solution of nitre such as potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, potassium permanganate, excluding ammonium nitrate, so as to be capable of sustaining a long-run combustion, is compressed into individual units of various shapes using such combustible binder as resin and other known binders, and is further overcoated with such combustible solutions as resin and other known water-proof and easily ignitable solutions in order to be moisture proof as well as clean handling and at the same time to be readily ignited by a safety match or a cigarette lighter.

Kyu Bong Whang

Papers

Ignitor charcoal and method of manufacture thereof