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{Coal Water Fuel} Coal Water Fuel (CWF) is a mix of fine pulverized coal, water and (sometimes) additives:
- Coal - 55..68%
- Water - 32..45%
- Additives - up to 2..3%
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CWS was historically developed to reduce expenses for transportation of coal. An idea was to create a coal-water slurry (slurry - mix of solid with liquid, here - coal and water) and transport it from mine to user (typically - power station) using a pipe. 'Liquid' state of CWS allows to use regular pumps for transporting CWS. Most succeful results were achieved in Canada-American transport system. Coal-pipeline was built in 70-s from ... to .. and had a length about 300 miles.