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Research Article

Thermal Behavior of the Low-temperature Secondary Oxidation of Coal under Different Pre-oxidation Temperatures

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Pages 1712-1729 | Received 11 Jun 2020, Accepted 20 Sep 2020, Published online: 05 Oct 2020
 

ABSTRACT

To study the effect of pre-oxidation temperature on the thermal behavior of secondary oxidation of coal, this paper studies samples from a Jurassic coalfield that is susceptible to spontaneous combustion. Under an air atmosphere, pre-oxidized coal samples with different pre-oxidation temperatures (75°C, 115°C, 155°C, 195°C) were prepared by heating at a rate of 0.5°C·min−1. Samples of each, and a raw coal sample, were then heated from 30–300°C at heating rates of 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5°C·min−1 in an air atmosphere of 120 mL·min−1. The micro-characteristics of pre-oxidized coal samples were identified by Fourier infrared spectroscopy method. A C80 microcalorimeter was employed to monitor the thermal behavior of low-temperature secondary oxidation of coal. The heat flow curves of raw coal and pre-oxidized coal samples during the heating process show similar trends. Characteristic temperatures determined from the data of samples from different endothermic stages increase with increasing pre-oxidation temperature. The heat absorption of pre-oxidized coal samples in different endothermic stages is significantly lower than that of raw coal, and decreases first and then increases with increasing pre-oxidation temperature. Due to the effect of pre-oxidation, the methyl, hydroxyl and carboxyl groups of pre-oxidized coal samples are obviously lower than that of raw coal. The apparent activation energy of different oxidation stages of the experimental coal samples was calculated with a multi-rate heating method. The secondary oxidation activation energy of coal increases first and then decreases with increasing pre-oxidation temperature. In the rapid endothermic stage and the slow endothermic stage, the activation energy ranges of the coal samples were 68.12–201.46 kJ·mol−1 and 26.21–135.58 kJ·mol−1.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC0807900], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51704226], Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2017JQ5047], and China Scholarship Council [201708615022], Special Youth Project of Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund of China Coal Science and Industry Group Co., Ltd.[2018-2-QN013].

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