SYNOPSIS Spontaneous combustion (SC) is a cold oxidation reaction that generates heat, causing temperature rise of the reactant and leading, with limited heat dissipation, to self-ignition reactant, which occurs without an external source. Although not coal, most significant hazard SC are fires occur in coal mining operations around world. These pose serious risk safety workers mines as well ad...

Coal blending is becoming increasingly common as more and more off-specification coals are received in coal-fired power plants, given the present coal market in China. This situation requires optimization of the operating parameters for matching the varying coal properties. The motivation for such optimization includes confirming good performance of the units regarding the security, the economy...

Organic aerosol (OA) constitutes a substantial fraction of fine particles and affects both human health and climate. It is becoming clear that OA absorbs light substantially (hence termed Brown Carbon, BrC), adding uncertainties to global aerosol radiative forcing estimations. The few current radiative-transfer and chemical-transport models that include BrC primarily consider sources from bioge...

Pollution Sources Thomas Grahame U. S. Department of Energy Washington, DC George Hidy Envair/Aerochem Placitas, NM ABSTRACT Laden et al. (2000) recently reported results of applying factor analysis to data taken in six cities from1979 to1988, identifying airborne particle sources potentially affecting daily mortality. These authors sought relationships between source groups and risk measures u...

Laden et al. (2000) recently reported results of applying factor analysis to data taken in six cities from 1979 to 1988, identifying airborne particle sources potentially affecting daily mortality. These authors sought relationships between source groups and risk measures using source tracer elements, Se (coal combustion), Pb (light-duty motor vehicle sources), and Si (crustal--soil dispersion)...

This paper describes the application of innovative hydrothermal technology on local municipal solid waste (MSW) to produce low chlorine content solid co-firing fuel with coal. Raw MSW was treated at temperatures ranging from 210 to 235°C with 30 to 90 minutes holding period. The process yielded slump products which were then naturally dried to 5% moisture content, resulted in dry products with ...