Tri-State Synfuels Project Commercial Scale Coal Test: Volume 5. Kentucky stockpile tests. [Proposed Henderson, Kentucky coal to gasoline plant; coal stockpile study]
This report focuses on the compacted coal stockpile built at Uniontown, Kentucky with a 200-ton sample representative of Camp 1 coal shipped to Sasolburg, Republic of South Africa. This stockpile program had several objectives: obtain information on the changes in quality of coal over a period of one year resulting from weatering and leaching. The weathering of coal may affect the physical and chemical properties, the gasification characteristics and oxygen consumption); obtain chemical composition of rainwater leached through the pile and collected over a period of one year to assist in the environmental design of water collection system; and demonstrate construction of a stockpile that is safe from spontaneous ignition. Conclusions and design recommendationa for the long term storage of compacted coal resulted from the program. Recommendations of interest include oxidation and weathering stability, minimal leaching due to rainwater, limited impact on gasification characteristics and effective method to minimize spontaneous ignition. The tests conducted on the compacted stockpile (Section 3.0) provided observations over the one-year period on spontaneous ignition, surface and weathering, oxidation as measured by chemical, physical and gasification property changes, size degradation, acid runoff, pH of rainwater and leachate and extent of leaching. Texas Gas was responsible for constructing, maintaining and collecting site data at the stockpile (Section 4.1.1). Paul Weir Company was responsible for sampling, screening, analytical testing program and the leaching program for the stockpile over regular intervals of one to two months (Section 4.2.1). Lurgi was requested to analyze samples (Section 4.2.2) corresponding to the samples analyzed by Commercial Testing and Engineering and report on the influence of weathering on the gasification characteristics.
- Research Organization:
- Tri-State Synfuels Co., Houston, TX (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC05-81OR20807
- OSTI ID:
- 6505207
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/OR/20807-T1-Vol.5(Commercial); ON: DE83007446
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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