Process Chemistry of Coal Utilization: Impacts of Coal Quality and Operating Conditions

Process Chemistry of Coal Utilization: Reaction Mechanisms for Coal Decomposition and Volatiles Conversion relates major advances in coal science on how to interpret performance data from lab, pilot and commercial scales. The book presents a very broad range of quantitative methods, from statistical regressions, to rudimentary models, CFD and comprehensive reaction mechanisms. Combining the latest research in the field, including an abundance of lab datasets, the book illustrates how a particular operating condition affects a specific coal-based reaction system. Managers who use these tactics will be able to tailor their testing and simulation work to effectively characterize and solve their problems.

Compiles fully validated reaction mechanisms that accurately depict the coal quality impacts in all major coal utilization technologiesIncludes an abundance of lab datasets that clearly illustrate how operating conditions affect coal-based reaction systems

1. Coal Utilization Technologies 2. Fuel Quality, Thermophysical Properties, and Transport Coefficients 3. Moisture Release and Coal Drying 4. Primary Devolatilization Behavior 5. Reaction Mechanisms for Primary Devolatilization 6. Quantitative Interpretations of Primary Devolatilization Behavior 7. Tar Decomposition 8. Volatiles Reforming and Volatiles Combustion 9. Hydropyrolysis and Hydrogasification