MRED 412 COAL BENEFICIATION

Theoretical lectures: Role of solid fuels in the global energy market, Origin and classification of coal, Physical and chemical properties, Pretreatment, Beneficiation, Briquetting Process, Carbonization, Liquefaction, Gasification.

Laboratory Exercises: Coal beneficiation using the heavy liquid separation method; proximate analysis of coal; characteristic parameters of coal pyrolysis and combustion; kinetic analysis of thermogravimetric data from coal pyrolysis; determination of fluid flow pressure drop through a fixed bed of solid particles; determination of minimum fluidisation velocity of a solid particles bed.