Coal bituminous

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The intention of the Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty is very clear. Any activity designed to find, evaluate, and exploit a mineral resource in Antarctica is a violation of the Antarctic Treaty. 

The Permian and Triassic rocks of the Victoria Gronp of the Transantarctic Mountains were deposited on land rather than in the oceans and have therefore 

The study of glacial deposits on the sonthem continents indicates that glaciers first formed dnring the Early Carboniferous in the area of Gondwana that later became South America. The resulting ice sheets 

The Early Triassic Fremouw Eormation has yielded fossil bones of a wide variety of land-based amphibians and reptiles that inhabited the forests on the coastal plain of East Antarctica. The collecting sites in the Beardmore and Shackleton glacier areas of the central Transantarctic Mountains include Graphite Peak, Coalsack Bluff, the Cumulus Hills, and the Gordon Valley. The most famous Triassic reptile is Lystrosaurus which was a plump little animal about 90 cm long that seems to have been well adapted to digging burrows in the soil. 

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Coals (the plural is deliberately used because coal has no defined, uniform nature or structure) are fossil sources with low hydrogen content. The structure of coals means only the structural models depicting major bonding types and components relating changes with coal rank. Coal is classified, or ranked, as lignite, subbituminous, bituminous, and anthracite. This is also the order of increased aromaticity and decreased volatile matter. The H C ratio of bituminous coal is about 0.8, whereas anthracite has H C ratios as low as 0.2. 

Location Anthracite and bituminous coal Lignite Total... 

The chemical characteristics of biomass vary over a broad range because of the many different types of species. Table 8 compares the typical analyses and energy contents of land- and water-based biomass, ie, wood, grass, kelp, and water hyacinth, and waste biomass, ie, manure, urban refuse, and primary sewage sludge, with those of cellulose, peat, and bituminous coal. Pure cellulose, a representative primary photosynthetic product, has a carbon content of... 

Analysis Pure ceUulos e Pine wood Kentuck y bluegrass Giant brown kelp Feedlo t manur e Urban refuse Primary sewage sludge Reed sedge peat Illinois bituminous coal... 

Physical Properties. Physical properties of waste as fuels are defined in accordance with the specific materials under consideration. The greatest degree of definition exists for wood and related biofuels. The least degree of definition exists for MSW, related RDF products, and the broad array of ha2ardous wastes. Table 3 compares the physical property data of some representative combustible wastes with the traditional fossil fuel bituminous coal. The soHd organic wastes typically have specific gravities or bulk densities much lower than those associated with coal and lignite. 

Typically, 40—50% of the carbon atoms ia lignite are ia aromatic stmctures while 60—70% of the carbon atoms ia Illinois bituminous coal are ia aromatic stmctures (7,8). By all of these measures, waste fuels are significantly more reactive than coal, peat, and other combustible soHds. 

Properties. Pilot-unit data indicate the EDS process may accommodate a wide variety of coal types. Overall process yields from bituminous, subbituminous, and lignite coals, which include Hquids from both Hquefaction and Flexicoking, are shown in Figure 14. The Hquids produced have higher nitrogen contents than are found in similar petroleum fractions. Sulfur contents reflect the sulfur levels of the starting coals ca 4.0 wt % sulfur in the dry bituminous coal 0.5 wt % in the subbituminous and 1.2 wt % sulfur in the dry lignite. 

Properties. A high volatile western Kentucky bituminous coal, the tar yield of which by Fischer assay was ca 16%, gave a tar yield of ca 26% at a pyrolysis temperature of 537°C (146—148). Tar yield peaked at ca 35% at 577°C and dropped off to 22% at 617°C. The char heating value is essentially equal to that of the starting coal, and the tar has a lower hydrogen content than other pyrolysis tars. The product char is not suitable for direct combustion because of its 2.6% sulfur content. 

Seam thicknesses and depths vary tremendously. The most favorable deposits have shallow overburdens and thick seams that cover large areas. Acceptable stripping ratios, ie, overburden thickness to coal thickness, depend on the quaHty of the fuel. Ratios up to 10 1 have been used for bituminous coals, but lower ones are required for lignitic coals because of the lower heating value per unit weight. 

Briquettes bum similarly to bituminous coal, although some tend to disintegrate on combustion. Alow (<6-7%) ash content increases the possibility of disintegration. Normal combustion depletes the combined oxygen and volatile matter in the coal quiddy, effectively changing its composition and combustion behavior, making control of combustion difficult. 

Low capacity shaft kilns, direct-fired manually with bituminous coal, which were extant during 1900—1940, largely disappeared following World War 11 because of their high thermal and labor costs, poor lime quaUty, and offensive emission of black smoke. Another kiln that was phased out in the United... 

A 90% yield of isoquinoline (>95% pure) was reported by treating a cmde fraction with hydrochloric acid followed by addition of an alcohoHc solution of cupric chloride in a mole ratio of 1 2 CUCI2/isoquinoline (40). A slighdy lower yield of 2-methylquinoline [91-63-4] (97.5% pure) was obtained from bituminous coal using 30% aqueous urea to form a clathrate (41). 

Ironically, scrap tires make good fuel, either whole or as shredded chips, commonly called tire-derived fuel (IDE). Each tire has the heat energy of 3.2 X 10 kJ (300,000 Btu), or about the amount of energy in 13.6 kg (30 lbs) of coal or 9.4 L (2.5 gal) of oil. Also, tires are moderate in both sulfur and ash compared with bituminous coal and do not adversely affect emissions quaUty. 

In carbon adsorption, contaminants are physically attracted or adsorbed on the surface of the carbon. Adsorption capacities are high for carbon because its porous nature provides a large surface area relative to its volume. Activated carbon is prepared from lignite, bituminous coal, coke, wood, or other organic materials such as coconut shells. 

The principal binder material, coal-tar pitch, is produced by the distillation of coal tar. Coal tar is obtained primarily as a by-product of the destmctive distillation of bituminous coal in coke ovens during the production of metallurgical coke. Petroleum pitch is used to a much lesser extent as a binder in carbon and graphite manufacture. Because of its low sohds content, petroleum pitch is used as an impregnant to strengthen carbon artifacts prior to graphitization. 

Bituminous coal is pulverized and passed to a briquette press. Binders may be added at this stage before compression of the coal into briquettes. 

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