Stability of the bituminous coal microstructure upon exposure to high pressures of helium

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 5022-5026

  Sakurovs, Richard ^a   Radliński, Andrzej P ^b   Melnichenko, Yuri B ^c   Blach, Tomas ^b   Cheng, Gang ^c   Lemmel, Hartmut ^d,e   Rauch, Helmut ^d,e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TU WIEN   (Austria)

^e INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL PORES; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; ELEVATED PRESSURE; HIGH PRESSURE; IRREVERSIBLE EFFECTS; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; ULTRA-SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING;

BITUMINOUS COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; HELIUM; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SORPTION;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 70449116378     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef900439d     Document Type: Article

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