A Comprehensive Investigation of the Quality of Coal at Selected Mines in Jharkhand

  • Unique Paper ID: 182515
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2
  • PageNo: 2191-2207
  • Abstract:
  • Among these sources of energy is coal that has accounted to an estimated 67 percent of the overall supply of energy in the country. India has one of the greatest coal reserves in the world. The Indian coal has low returns of calorific value and very elevated levels of ash. However, with the present levels of 0.8 million tons of average of daily output of coal in the country, the reserves are estimated to last over 100 years. In India energy derived out of coal is nearly twice energy derived out of oil, compared with the world, where energy derived out of coal is nearly 30 percent lower than energy derived out of oil. It is the rock that is composed of the remaining of plant remains that have been decomposed and therefore consist mainly of an element known as carbon and this is what we call coal. Combusting coal brings about heat energy which could be used in engines such as steam engines or to produce electricity using turbines. Coal burning contributes to nearly 67 per cent of the electricity produced in INDIA. Coal quality is called coal quality and is attributed to the properties and characteristics of coal that influence behaviors and use. The quantities and distribution and varieties of the many and varied elements that are found in coal that is proposed to be burned are a few of the other coal-quality aspects of future use of coal. These quality aspects about the Indian coal deposits may lead eventually to our better use of this life-sustaining energy source with a cheaper and more effective cost, and with the least amount of unnecessary environmental pollution. The objective and vision of this project work is that it narrows its scope on quality of various Indian Coals and also finds out which coal can be used in which industry. Analysis of coal also helps in determining of coal rank alongside as implicit property. Additionally, this information will form the fundamental consideration of arriving at future related issues e.g.: coal trading and its usages. Coal Properties and tests the coals were sampled as an example of 05 mines out of the Jharkhand coal mines on the basis of channel sampling process. Different coal properties were studied and were put to test that gives us some information about quality of the coals. The various properties tested include the following - Plastic properties, Physical & Chemical properties, Thermal properties of peculiar coal.

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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2
  • PageNo: 2191-2207

A Comprehensive Investigation of the Quality of Coal at Selected Mines in Jharkhand

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