Australia's Loy Yang brown coal project

Journal Article · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979 · World Coal; (United States)

OSTI ID:6026871

Dorling, I

The most favorable section of the Loy Yang Coalfield contains about 2,800,000,000 metric tons of recoverable coal, while extensions could increase this amount to about 3,400,000,000 tons. Total recoverable reserves are estimated to be 4,700,000,000 tons. The Loy Yang brown coal contains, on the average, 62.8% moisture, and on a dry basis, 1.4% sulphur. The gross dry calorific value of the cal is 26.5 megajoules per kilogram (6,329 Btu) while the gross wet calcorific value is 9.9 megajoules per kilogram (2,364 Btu). Initially, the coal requirement will be only 15,000 tons per day, but over a 10-year period the coal demand will rise to 120,000 tons per day (or 35,000,000 tons a year) at full capacity. During the 30-year planned life of the project, the mine will provide over 1,000,000,000 tons of coal at a very favorable ratio of 4 tons of coal to 1 cubic meter of overburden. Large bucket wheel excavators will be used for removing both coal and overburden. It is expected that the Loy Yang power station will be able to achieve high plant performance because of the relatively high quality of the Loy Yang brown coal which has low fouling properties. Mining conditions will be excellent, and only minimal disturbance to the environmentw will occur.

• OSTI ID: 6026871
• Journal Information: World Coal; (United States), Journal Name: World Coal; (United States) Vol. 5:6; ISSN WOCOD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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