Coal quality information book: Interim report. [Data for 20 raw and 50 cleaned coals]

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5501009

Parkinson, J W; Suardini, P J; Cavalet, J R

The Coal-Quality Information Book presents physical and chemical properties of selected utility coals from throughout North America depicting each coal's cleanability and combustion characteristics. Size distribution and washability analyses define the physical characteristics important for coal cleaning and handling. ASTM analyses, such as proximate and ultimate analyses and ash fusibility and ash constituent analyses, convey the chemical characteristics important for coal combustion. The data are presented in a form specifically designed to be used by the electric utility industry for specifying, purchasing, and cleaning coals for steam generators. Quantitative data are included for each raw coal cleaned to one or more quality levels using full-scale coal-cleaning circuitry. This unique full-scale comparative data, which has not been available in the past, allows utilities to specify the level of coal-quality from a mine that results in the lowest power generation costs. The book contains data for 20 raw coals and 50 clean coals produced from the raw coals. There are 17 bituminous and subbituminous ranked coals, two lignites, and one anthracite culm (refuse) from seven states and two Canadian provinces. All of these coals were characterized at the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Coal Quality Development Center (CQDC) near Homer City, Pennsylvania. This is the first in a series of coal-quality information books that EPRI plans to publish containing quality and cleanability data. Future issues will contain additional information from the CQDC, information collected from the public domain, and information contributed by electric utilities and other organizations from across the US. A companion computerized version of this information called the Coal-Quality Information System, which operates on a personal computer, is scheduled to be available from EPRI in 1988.

• Research Organization: Kaiser (Raymond) Engineers, Inc., Homer City, PA (USA); Science Applications International Corp., Homer City, PA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5501009
• Report Number(s): EPRI-CS-5421; ON: TI88920107
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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