Structural and thermal properties of vitrain lithotype in coal-inferences from TG-DTG-DSC, Rock-Eval and X-ray diAraction
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Structural and thermal properties of vitrain lithotype
in coal-inferences from TG-DTG-DSC, Rock-Eval
and X-ray diAraction
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HAZRA , BODHISATWA
SINGH, DEEPENDRA PRATAP CHAKRABORTY, PRASENJEET DAS, HOMARGHA SINGH, VIVEK SAHU, SANTI GOPAL SINGH, PRADEEP K |
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Rock Testing
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Vitrain is one of the most important lithotype for the end utilization of humic coals in relevant industries.
In this work, we examine the thermal, structural and pyrolysis properties of vitrains, manually isolated
from coals of three distinct thermal maturity levels (rank). The high volatile bituminous (HvbA) vitrain
showed highest moisture content and reactivity during combustion, while showing least Rock-Eval S2
Tmax and S4 Tpeak. On the other hand, the low volatile (Lvb) sample showed properties exact opposite to
that of the HvbA sample. Thus, the rank of the vitrains was observed to directly control their behaviour.
Owing to their inherently lower ash content, all the vitrains during thermogravimetric analysis developed
smooth thermograms, indicating easy burning. Interlayer spacing (d002), obtained from XRD displayed a
strong decrease with increasing coal rank, indicating formation of condensed stacking structures with
increasing rank. On the other hand, other XRD parameters, viz., the crystallite height (Lc) and the
crystallite diameter (La) were not correlated with the rank of the samples. Rock-Eval S2 pyrograms
depicted distinctive responses for the vitrains. While smooth curves were observed for the HvbA vitrain,
the pyrograms showed unevenness and spikes for the Mvb and Lvb vitrains. We interpret these spikes or
ruggedness to be caused due to melt formation during pyrolysis of Lvb and Mvb vitrains, and concomitant
gas/bubble-bursting. We back our results with distinctive observations from the Beld emission scanning
electron microscope (FE-SEM) of the pyrolysis-residues of the vitrains. We interpret that the distinctive
S2 signatures shown by coals can be useful in predicting their end usage
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Indian Academy of Sciences
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2022-04-16
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Article
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HAZRA , BODHISATWA and SINGH, DEEPENDRA PRATAP and CHAKRABORTY, PRASENJEET and DAS, HOMARGHA and SINGH, VIVEK and SAHU, SANTI GOPAL and SINGH, PRADEEP K (2022) Structural and thermal properties of vitrain lithotype in coal-inferences from TG-DTG-DSC, Rock-Eval and X-ray diAraction. Journal of Earth System Science, 131 (2). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0253-4126
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http://cimfr.csircentral.net/2522/
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