Behaviour of coal mineral matter in sintering and slagging of ash during the gasification process

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1426-1433

  Matjie, Ratale H ^a,b   French, David ^c   Ward, Colin R ^c,d   Pistorius, Petrus C ^b   Li, Zhongsheng ^d  

^a SASOL TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal mineral matter; QEMSCAN; Sintering; Slagging

Indexed keywords

ASH FORMATION; COAL MINERALS; DENSITY SEPARATION; FEED COALS; GASIFICATION PROCESS; GEOMETRIC FORM; INORGANIC ELEMENTS; IRON OXIDE PARTICLES; MACERALS; MINERAL MATTERS; MULLITE CRYSTALS; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICLE CHEMISTRY; PHASE IDENTIFICATION; QEMSCAN; SLAGGING; VITRINITES;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; COAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; IRON OXIDES; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SINTERING; SLAGS;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 79956366640     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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