Lignite Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Garcia was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Spanish Research Council (CSIQ. Financial support for the experimental work was provided by The Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Program for Coal Research, llie authors are grateful fcH the sample of yhiran lignite provided by the Istanbul Technical University. 

This research was sponsored in part by Amoco Oil Corporation. The research was also financed in part by the State of Delaware as authorized by the State budget Act of Fiscal Year 1988. We would like to acknowledge the help of Prof. Harold H. Schobert of the Pennsylvania State University for providing a sample of the Spanish lignite, and the help of Drs. Richard Markuszewski and Glenn A. Norton of Iowa State University for providing the high-sulfur New Zealand coal sample. 

We received from Dr. P. Dolsen, Coal Research Division of the Pennsylvania State University, five samples of coal and lignite (4 of coal and 1 of lignite). These were sent to us in physical forms ranging from finely powdered material to chunks lmm in diameter containing various proportions of water, pyrite, ash and volatile material. Thus these samples provided us with adequate variety with which to attempt standardization of our method. The description of those samples is shown in Table I from information provided to us by Penn State. 

Table I. Brief Description of the Five Coal and Lignite Samples Received from the Coal Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University.

This study was supported by USDOE under Contract No. DE-ACOl-79ET14882 and, in part, by The Pennsylvania State University Cooperative Program in Coal Research. We wish to thank Dr. Spackman, Director of the Coal Research Section (PSU) for supplying the lignite. 

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