Assessment of Coal Mine Road Dust Properties for Controlling Air Pollution
IR@CIMFR: CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad
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Assessment of Coal Mine Road Dust Properties for
Controlling Air Pollution
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Singh, Raj Shekhar
Chaulya, S. K. Kumar, A. Manda, K. Mishra, P. K. Bandyopadhyay, L. K. |
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Instrumentation
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The paper describes analytical results of physico�chemical parameters and proximate analysis of coal dust collected from road surface of four opencast coal mines located in different coalfields of India. Value of pH, water holding
capacity, ash percentage, moisture content, volatile matter, bulk density, specific gravity and fixed carbon was found to be in the
range of 5.1–7.7, 21.17−31.71%, 45−76%, 0.5−3.0%, 12.6−20.0%,
1.15–1.70 g cm−3, 1.73–2.30, and 10.2–45.3%, respectively. The study revealed that the coal dust abundantly available on road surface of opencast coal mines may be used as domestic fuel.
Hence, collection and utilization of coal dust accumulated on mine road would not only reduce air pollution in mining regions but also help in enhancing economic benefit of coal mining industry by selling waste coal dust as domestic fuel.
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2011
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Article
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Singh, Raj Shekhar and Chaulya, S. K. and Kumar, A. and Manda, K. and Mishra, P. K. and Bandyopadhyay, L. K. (2011) Assessment of Coal Mine Road Dust Properties for Controlling Air Pollution. International Journal of Environmental Protection, 1 (2). pp. 1-7.
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http://cimfr.csircentral.net/2427/
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