Kinetic modelling of coking coal fluidity development

A Mechanistic Approach to Delayed Coking Modelling

The valorisation of oil distillation residues constitutes a major problem for refineries. Thermal processes like visbreaking and delayed coking are still quite diffused technologies. This paper presents some major aspects of the delayed coking kinetic modelling and some preliminary results compared with experimental data. A mechanistic approach has been adopted; it allows describing the process...

Steam versus Coking Coal and the Acid Rain Program

The Clean Air Act of 1990 initiated a tradable permit program for emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants. One effect of this policy was a large increase in the consumption of low-sulfur bituminous coal by coal-fired power plants. However, lowsulfur bituminous coal is also the ideal coking coal for steel production. The analysis presented here will attempt to determine how the ...

Kinetic Model of Coal Combustion

The Effects of Volatile Materials of Non-coking Coal on the Reduction of Hematite

One of the most important methods to produce sponge iron is coal based reduction of iron ore. Direct reduction methods based on coal are being improved due to the abundance of coal sources and its lower cost in comparison with natural gas. Volatile materials in coal play an important role in the reduction of iron oxides. In this study, noncoking coal with high volatile materials from Iran and c...

Fundamentals of 3D modelling and resource estimation in coal mining

The prerequisite of maintaining an efficient and safe mining operation is the proper design of a mine by considering all aspects. The first step in a coal mine design is a realistic geometrical modelling of the coal seam(s). The structural features such as faults and folding must be reliably implemented in 3D seam models. Upon having a consistent seam model, the attributes such as calorific val...