Spectrum technology in coal quality detection has become a research hotspot with the maturing of spectral technology and the continuous development of spectral imager. This article mainly analyzed and summarized the progress and research status of scholars at home and abroad based on the coal quality index (moisture, ash content, volatile matter, fixed carbon and sulfur content).According to th...

The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country and over time. These differences occur both between developing and developed countries and between industrialised nations. The econometric analysis presented in this paper tests for the reasons of these discrepancies. In this examination abundance of hard coal and the price of ha...

The types of coal are multiplex in domestic small and medium sized boilers, and with unstable ingredients, the method of maintaining the amount of wind and coal supply in a fixed proportion of the wind adjustment does not always ensure the best economical boiler combustion process, the key of optimizing combustion is to modify reasonable proportion of wind and coal online. In this paper, a kind...

INTRODUCTION This report presents the results of two trials conducted with the Blast Furnace Granular Coal Injection System at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Bums Harbor Plant. The trials were conducted using granulated and pulverized high volatile coal from Colorado. The first trial was conducted to quantify the effect that a high volatile western coal, Colorado Oxbow, has on the blast furnace ...

China is the biggest coal product and consumption country around the world. Lots of coal consumption resulted huge carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, especially for coal-fired power plant in China. Oxy-fuel combustion is currently considered to be one of the major technologies for CO2 capture in power plants. The ash formation mechanism and mineral transformation in high CO2 atmosphere is different...

Mercury and radionuclides (natural U and its decay series products and artificial 137Cs) were measured in sediments of the Ka{tela Bay (eastern Adriatic coast) in the vicinity of a former chloralkali plant. The depth distributions of radionuclides and mercury revealed that sediments in front of the factory represent a mixture of natural sediment and coal ash originating from the coal used in th...

Currently coal fired power plant requires bunker or stock piles in order to place the coal for storage purpose and to use it effectively when demand arises. Real time sensors are used to sense level of the coal and to pass data to computational systems for processing hence further actions such as refilling and distributing of coal can be automated. Further the control action in level sensing ca...

Homogenization is the processing of one type of material so that the inherent fluctuations in respect of quality and/or size distribution are evened out. In blending coal, the aim is to achieve a final product with a well defined composition, from two or more coal types, so that the elements are very well distributed and no large pockets of one type can be identified. In mixing, traces of the i...

Online coal analyzers have been in commercial use for more than two decades now, with coal producers accounting for most of the units purchased. In the past three years or so, coal-fired power plants have shown an increasing share of the analyzers bought. This article explains the most common applications of analyzers at power plants, ranging from boiler optimization to compliance with emission...

Lignite from Mae Moh mine is the largest source of solid fuel for electricity generation in Thailand. It is used in pulverized coal-fired boilers of a 2400 MW thermal power plant. Its high CaO content in ash is a major concern that can affect severe slagging. In this paper, potential of slag occurrence in the power plant was investigated by numerical simulation. The FactSage thermochemical pack...