A study was undertaken to investigate the production of low smoke fuel from coal currently used in low-income households in South Africa. Pyrolysis of large coal lumps was studied as a possible production method, and an ...

A better understanding of the behaviour of the inorganic matter present in coal will assist in more cost-effective operations and more consistency in product yield and composition during thermal processing. In this study, ...

In this laboratory study thermo-gravimetric analyses were conducted to determine the influence of the addition of an alkaline metal catalyst (K2CO3 incorporated into a fine discard coal agglomerate mixture by physical ...