POST-COMBUSTION COAL DESULFURIZATION Review

Desulfurization of Coal

Coal Combustion and Combustion Products

Coal Desulfurization by Solvent Leaching Methods

Coal desulfurization prior to usage is a preprocessing in order to achieve clean fuel and reduce environmental impacts such as acid rain. Desulfurization of Lakhra (Pakistan) coal was conducted with different solvents. Coal was leached with different solvents like hot water, H2O2/H2SO4 and HNO3. It was found that the effects of the leaching temperature, agitation time and particle size on the r...

Mercury from Coal Combustion

A 1997 study in Minnesota indicated a relationship between mercury deposition trends and regional coal combustion (as well as other possible sources) spanning a period of two centuries (Engstrom and Swain 1997). Sediment core sampling from rural lakes in eastern Minnesota indicated a growth in mercury deposited from the air since the first half of the 1800s, with the amount peaking in the 1960s...

Oxy-coal Combustion Studies