Abstract Mercury (Hg) contamination has become a serious threat to ecosystems. Amelioration technology for soil is expected control the specific interactions between N in ex-gold mining contaminated with Hg. This research aimed analyze interaction of Hg-N on ameliorated sub-bituminous coal and activation 10% NaOH. The experimental design used this study was Completely Randomized Design three re...

Belt and King (1945) studied the tissue reactions produced in animals by selected dusts from South Wales coal mines, and found that clean coal (low ash coal fraction containing 99% coal) produced only minimal fibrosis (grade 1) with simple foreign body reaction in 250 to 500 days. In experiments with high ash coal fractions which contained from 37 to 66% coal and about 1 to 3% quartz, the rest ...

Four different types of coal have been pyrolyzed in a laminar flow, drop tube furnace in order to establish a relationship between polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) evolution and mutagenicity. Temperatures of 900K to 1700K and particle residence times up to 0.3 sec were chosen to best simulate conditions of rapid rate pyrolysis in pulverized (44-53 microns) coal combustion. The specific mutage...

To better understand the characteristics of seepage-pores (pore radius larger than 100 nanometers) and their influence on the permeability of coals, we have conducted fractal analyses for 34 fresh coal samples (mean maximum vitrinite reflectance Ro,max from 0.43% to 4.21%) from North, Northwest and Northeast China. Mercury porosimetry data indicate that the coals are fractal, with pore radius r...

This paper explores the (energetic and exergetic) thermodynamic efficiency as well as the environmental sustainability (mass flow accounting and emergy accounting) of syngas production from several types of coal (lignite, anthracite, bituminous and sub-bituminous coals). Syngas production is an intermediate step towards hydrogen production, accomplished by means of CO2 sequestration and trace e...

Coal is a porous medium with complex pore structures. The characteristics of the pore structure play an important role in various aspects of coal use, including extraction of methane from coal seams, CO2 sequestration in coal, and water purification by activated carbon. To describe comprehensively the pore structure of coal, we apply transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and synchrotron small-...

Six Integrated Gasifi cation Combined-Cycle (IGCC) power plant confi gurations operating on bituminous coal were evaluated and the results are presented in this summary sheet. All cases were analyzed on the same basis, using a consistent set of assumptions and analytical tools. Each gasifi er type was assessed with and without carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). The individual confi guratio...

In this work, the experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of temperature and sub-bituminous coal on upgrading nickel laterites ores by carbothermic reduction. The reduction was carried out in the muffle furnace at a temperature ranging of 800-1100 o C. The produced calcine from reduction step was grounded in vibrating mill, mixed with water and passed on a magnetic separator to separ...