A Comparison of Coal Beneficiation Methods

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1977
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Min, Seongwoo
Wheelock, Thomas
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The Department of Chemical Engineering was founded in 1913 under the Department of Physics and Illuminating Engineering. From 1915 to 1931 it was jointly administered by the Divisions of Industrial Science and Engineering, and from 1931 onward it has been under the Division/College of Engineering. In 1928 it merged with Mining Engineering, and from 1973–1979 it merged with Nuclear Engineering. It became Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2005.

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Although iron pyrites and other minerals are removed from coal on an industrial scale almost exclusively by gravity separation methods at the present time, other beneficiation methods are coming into use. Among the developing methods, froth flotation (1,2,3) is the foremost, although the oil agglomeration method (4,5,6) is also promising. Both of these methods take advantage of the difference in surface properties of coal and inorganic mineral particles suspended in water to effect a separation. In the first method the hydrophobic coal particles are removed from the hydrophilic mineral particles by selective attachment to a mass of air bubbles, while in the second method the coal particles are selectively coated and agglomerated by fuel oil and then recovered by screening.

While gravity separation methods are well suited for removing coarse mineral particles from coal, they are generally ineffective for removing microscopic particles. On the other hand, both the froth flotation.

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"Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Coal Desulfurization Chapter 7, pp 83–100 DOI: 10.1021/bk-1977-0064.ch007. Copyright 1977 American Chemical Society.

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