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<p>An alert process and apparatus employs a geo-coding database to find geographic coordinates corresponding to a street address of a fee-based ATM terminal for which one or more transaction fees or charged to a cardholder to use, employs a terminal locations data store to obtain a street address of an ATM terminal for which no fees or relatively lower fees, would be charged to the cardholder to use, having geographic coordinates closely matching those of the fee-based ATM terminal, and generates alert information including the street address of the non fee-based terminal. Cardholders can be alerted with locations of other ATM's that could have been used for lesser fees or for free, and that are in the vicinity of the ATM that originated the transaction subject to fees. The alert can also present the cardholder with additional benefits or incentives such as discount coupons and/or fee reimbursements. An alert process and apparatus employs a geo-coding database to find geographic coordinates corresponding to a street address of a fee-based ATM terminal for which one or more transaction fees or charged to a cardholder to use, employs a terminal locations data store to obtain a street address of an ATM terminal for which no fees or relatively lower fees, would be charged to the cardholder to use, having geographic coordinates closely matching those of the fee-based ATM terminal, and generates alert information including the street address of the non fee-based terminal. Cardholders can be alerted with locations of other ATM's that could have been used for lesser fees or for free, and that are in the vicinity of the ATM that originated the transaction subject to fees. The alert can also present the cardholder with additional benefits or incentives such as discount coupons and/or fee reimbursements. A method of treating untreated low calorific coal containing moisture and organic volatiles includes feeding untreated coal to a dryer, and drying the coal. The dried coal is subjected to a pyrolyzing step where oxygen-deficient gases are brought into contact with the coal, thereby lowering the volatile content of the coal and producing a stream of pyrolysis effluent gases. The pyrolysis effluent gases are subjected to a separation process to separate lean fuel gases from liquids and tars, wherein the separation process removes less than about 20 percent of the pyrolysis effluent gases as the liquids and tars, with the remainder being the lean fuel gases;. The lean fuel gases are returned to the dryer combustor, the pyrolyzer combustor, or the pyrolyzer.</p> |