Coal-cleaning plant refuse characterization

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5505125

Cavalet, J R; Torak, E R

This report describes a study performed for the Electric Power Research Institute's Coal Cleaning Test Facility in Homer City, Pennsylvania. The purpose of the study was to design a standard methods for chemically and physically classifying refuse generated by physical coal cleaning and to construct a matrix that will accurately predict how a particular refuse will react to particular disposal methods - based solely on raw-coal characteristics and the process used to clean the coal. The value of such a classification system (which has not existed to this point) is the ability to design efficient and economical systems for disposing of specific coal cleaning refuse. The report describes the project's literature search and a four-tier classification system. It also provides designs for test piles, sampling procedures, and guidelines for a series of experiments to test the classfication system and create an accurate, reliable predictive matrix. 38 refs., 39 figs., 35 tabs.

• Research Organization: Science Applications International Corp., Homer City, PA (USA); Kaiser (Raymond) Engineers, Inc., Homer City, PA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5505125
• Report Number(s): EPRI-CS-4095; ON: TI85920702
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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