Coal Definition and 68 Threads

Hello : i was watching the news , and it was all about how Europe will start the coal factories again for energy generation had a question related to reduction of coal consumption for energy generation 1 ) could we use coal fine particles instead of chunks of coal that will burn more...

In the industry, coal and other fuels are typically represented by - their C, H, O, N, S elemental composition for the combustible part - the composition of the ashes (SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, ...) - the Low Heat Value (LHV) which is the heat that can be extracted from combustion product With...

Reading McGhee's excellent book on the Carboniferous period and he explains in detail the unique circumstances behind the creation of 90% of the world's coal deposits - receding ocean in an ice age that created low lying swamps, high concentrations of oxygen in the atmosphere that would have...

Mentor note: This thread started as side-discussion in the thread New Tokamak D Mode Success - Fusion is Almost Here, see there for earlier posts that lead to this discussion. I split the threads. Everything from post 2 to post 20 was moved, later posts were made here.

So I'm learning in a class that coal is made when land plants (in swamps) die and then get buried in sediments, and with the Earth's pressure/temperature the plants become coal. Then I learned that when ocean plants (like algae and plankton) die, they also get buried in sediments in the sea...

Climate rewind: Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into coal The article says that this process takes place using a liquid metal catalyst at room temperature and is both efficient and scalable. The rest of the article can be read over at phys.org (link in title). The published paper (open...

hello my friends , i have two question about calorific value of coal why Lower heating value decrease with increase oxygen content but increase with increasing hydrogen , sulfur and carbon content ? Do this elements influence the higher heating value or not ?

This is regarding vertical retorts, specifically those used in "distillation" of coal to produce coal (town) gas, tar and other by products. It is understood that the distillation of coal is done by heating coal in an air (oxygen) free container (ie in a retort). The vertical retort is...

Homework Statement A locomotive is dragging empty freight cars, while coal is being dropped into them. It’s falling down into those freight cars with an efficiency (μ). Overall mass of the whole empty train is M. a) Calculate v(t) (velocity with respect to time), assuming that the force of...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171027085523.htmCurrent federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a new study. What do you think...

I am an new EE with my FE, but my thermo knowledge is lacking in many areas. Its one area where i would like to become an expert. So i try to find ways of applying thermo analysis on my free time to imprve my skills. where here is one and I have no idea where to even start. a youtuber with a...

Homework Statement A power plant burns coal and generates an average of 700.0 Megawatts (MW) of electrical power while discharging 1162.00 MW as waste heat. Find the total electrical energy generated by the plant in a 30-day period. Homework Equations W = J/sec The Attempt at a Solution...

I was thinking of ways of making carbon cleaner for the environment. One of the ways I came up with is filling a solar updraft tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower with the exhaust from a gas/coal plant. So you'd get a true greenhouse gas accumulation of heat going in the...

Homework Statement The problem is in the attached picture. I simply do not know what an "equilibrium equation" is and what it means by the composition. My professor is unbelievably difficult to get a straight, understandable answer from. I've already taken thermodynamics, but we did not learn...

Hello friends, The balanced chemical equation for the combustion of carbon is: C(solid) + O2(gas) -> CO2(gas) Now, the lower and higher heating value of hydrocarbon fuels (such as methane) exists because in the LOWER heating value, you are subtracting away the latent heat of vaporization of...

Homework Statement Brown coal, energy content 16 MJ/kg, carbon content 65% by weight, burning in a 30% efficient steam power plant. Homework Equations What is the emissions intensity (kg CO2 emitted/kWh delivered) ? Compare this to Hazelwood which is 1.53 tCO2/Mwh 3. The Attempt at a Solution...

Hi, I would kindly appreciate it if someone could help me with my simulation problem. I am trying to simulate dual porosity in coal and the interaction of coal matrix and fracture flow. The problem I'm having is I can't assign separate domains with different pressures for matrix and fracture in...

Hi there, Could someone explain to me why fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, produce fewer particulate matter emissions than natural gas? Also, how would you expect the combustion temperature of these fuels to affect particulate emissions? Would a higher temperature lead to a more complete...

First I'm hoping this is in the right section. There is a big debate in the high plains of the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest about coal being transported by rail in open top hopper cars. The debate seems to center on coal dust and bits of coal making its way into the water ways. As far as...

Wood burns with flame but coal does not. Why?

Hi everyone ,, Am doing a project and I want to light coal with matches only ,, I have 2 Ideas only , mix coal with sulfur or mix it with petroleum fuel .. I want to know will it light using any of those methods ?? with only matches ? Is it safe ? and will there be any smell out of it ...

Apparently : What significance does brownian motion has to do with coal explosion?[Brownian motion or pedesis is the presumably random moving of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their bombardment by the fast-moving atoms or molecules in the gas or liquid.] Now...

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/20/coal-cleanest-energy-source-there-is/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2LUZ8Z69v I'm not seeing it. The problem is obvious: The primary combustion products of coal are water and carbon dioxide. The proportions vary with the type of coal, but a considerable...

Homework Statement Image: http://www.coal2nuclear.com/Fossil%20Fuel%20Power%20Station%20Core%20-%20Relabeled%20-%20982.jpg I need to know the critical parameters of getting steam, so that i know which measuring instruments to use and where to put them so that following statemnts are true...

Homework Statement A coal power plant with 30% efficiency burns 10 kilograms of coal per day. (Take the heat of combustion of coal to be 30 MJ/kg) a) what is the power output of the plant? b) At what rate is thermal energy being discarded by this plant? c) If the thermal energy is carried...

Hi all, Would really appreciate some help on this problem I can't seem to figure out. Brown coal has an energy content of 15MJ/kg, carbon content 65% by weight, burning in a 30% efficient steam power plant. Calculate the CO2 emission intensity (kg CO2 emitted/kWh delivered).Assume complete...

Can someone explain what is being asked in this problem. I find it quite confusing. Particularly equation [3]. Thank you. ................ A firm selling cooking coal to power stations, requires to formulate a blend of coal with a phosphorus content of at most 0.04% and ash impurity of at...

So a sadistic friend of mine posed this question: Of course this question can be thought of in two ways: a) would the surface still be hot enough at the bottom or b) would the interior be hot enough at the bottom (since the coals would probably break, its a relevant question). At the time...

Gamma (Cp/Cv) of a gas Homework Statement An experimenter adds 980 J of heat to 1.75 mols of an ideal gas to heat it from 10.0 C to 25.0 C at constant pressure. The gas does 234 J of work during the expansion. Calculate gamma (Cp/Cv) for the gas. Homework Equations Cv=Cp-nR Gamma...

how much coal is required to produce 100000 BTU/s in a typical house? I have been looking and looking with no leads on it need help please

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Hello, I'm wondering if the brains here can help me point to some good sources for some particular information I'm looking for, and perhaps help me figure out the correct math for some problems I'm interested in solving. I've seen a statement that, in general, ball-park figures...

Is this true? How do you refute it? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

Hi all, I hope to get some help from you here. I'm a quality engineer working for a coal briquettes company in Turkey. What we do is collecting the coaldust from all over Turkey and make them briquettes by pressing under high pressure (70-80 bars). We add some extra binder materials to the...

I was given this problem as an excercise in thermodynamics and to better understand powerplant systems. I am having difficulties because as a civil engineering student I haven't taken a lot of thermodynamics. The one course I did take was several semesters ago and wasn't that advanced...

Homework Statement A railroad hopper car has a mass of 20000 kg when empty and contains 30000 kg of coal. As it coasts along the track at 7 m/s the hopper opens and steadily releases all the coal onto a platform below the rails over a period of 5 s. a) How fast does the car travel after all...

I'm new here and I'm in no way a Science person or a Eco person. The fact is that I'm an Accounting major with an idea. Would it be possible to take CO2, remove the oxygen and concentrate the Carbon into coal? I got this idea while watching part of a "green" show. They were showing how...

Homework Statement A railroad hopper car has a mass of 50000 kg when empty and contains 30000 kg of coal. As it coasts along the track at 8 m/s the hopper opens and steadily releases all the coal onto a platform below the rails over a period of 4 s. How fast does the car travel after all...

You might be interested in this paper: Jaramillo, P., W. M. Griffin, and H.S. Matthews. 2007. Comparative life-cycle air emissions of coal, domestic natural gas, LNG, and SNG for electricity generation. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 41, No. 17, 6290-6296 You can download it here...

If I have one pound of gold heated and compressed into a diamond, what will the weight of the diamond be? PS

Where on Earth are possible coal and oil of "tomorrow" forming today? Where on Earth are possible coal and oil of tomorrow, as in many many years from now, forming today? Thanks for your help!

Homework Statement A railroad hopper car has a mass of 30000 kg when empty and contains 50000 kg of coal. As it coasts along the track at 5 m/s the hopper opens and steadily releases all the coal onto a platform below the rails over a period of 4 s. What is the horizontal impulse delivered to...

If diamonds are made of carbon? and coal is made out carbon, why are diamonds transparent and coal is not transparent?

I don't think this counts as a homework question and if it does, I'm sorry. At my high school, we have an annual coal fair and I wanted to do a calculus-based math project, but I'm having trouble coming up with any good ideas. The project can be about any part of the coal industry, so does...

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html Apparently global warming is due to clean air regulations reducing the amount of acid rain in the artic and so the amount of sunlight absorbing smog.

Question 3 text A freight car moves along a frictionless level railroad track at constant speed. The car is open on top. A large load of coal is suddenly dumped into the car. What happens to the velocity of the car? Question 3 answers It increases. It remains the same. It decreases...

I want to characterise a coal char particle of size 6 to 15 mm using XRD. I am aware of powder XRD being done. But I want to subject the sample as it is as a lump particle. Is any such XRD possible. Will the XRD results of lumped sample differ from that of the powder sample? Please explain...

[SOLVED] Coal liquification What is the chemical formula for coal liquification?

[SOLVED] Thermal efficiency of a coal powered power station Homework Statement A company plans to build a coal powered plant for eletricity generation. The coal is to be burnt ina heat engine designed to maintain a hot resovoir temp Th, and a cold resovoir of 120 degs celcius. What is the...

Source: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23586655-31037,00.html This certainly came as a shock to me.. since this situation is clearly due to overpopulation.. and my country India, suffers from the same problem. Hence, tomorrow it could be my country in the news for it's...