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Research Article

Thermokinetic Characteristics of Jurassic Coal Spontaneous Combustion Based on Thermogravimetric Analysis

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Pages 1527-1541 | Received 08 Jun 2020, Accepted 04 Sep 2020, Published online: 15 Sep 2020
 

ABSTRACT

To prevent coal fire disaster, a precision grading warning method was previously proposed for coal seams that are susceptible to spontaneous combustion. The uncertainty in the reaction mechanism of the spontaneous combustion of coal greatly restrains the in-depth understanding of the fine division theory in the course of coal combustion. In this paper, further research has been conducted to study the mechanism of this method. In this study, thermogravimetric analysis was carried out on the Jurassic coal of three different metamorphic grades. The variations of the TG/DTG curves of the coal samples at four heating rates were compared to examine their kinetic model and kinetic compensation effect. For the three samples of the Jurassic coal, a similar trend was obtained for the TG and DTG curves at the different heating rates. With an increase in the heating rate, the hysteresis phenomenon appeared in the TG/DTG curves. In the low-temperature coal oxidation stage, the most probable mechanism function of Coal A and Coal B was obtained to be No.9 (G(α) = [1-(1-α)1/2]2, f(α) = (1-α)1/2[1-(1-α)1/2]−1), and that of Coal C was No.14 (G(α) = [-ln(1-α)]2, f(α) = (1-α)[-ln(1-α)]−1/2). A significant kinetic compensation effect was also observed in the oxidation stage. Despite the difference in the metamorphic grade, the reaction process of the low-temperature oxidation, as well as the rate-determining step was the same for the three samples.

Highlights

  • Discovery of a kinetic model for three different metamorphic graded Jurassic coals.

  • The three Jurassic coal samples exhibited a similar trend for the TG and DTG curves at different heating rates.

  • Jurassic coal has a significant kinetic compensation effect in the low-temperature oxidation stage.

Author contributions

Duo Zhang, Jun Deng and Hu Wen conceived the work and designed the experiments. Weifeng Wang and Xiaowei Zhai performed TG/DTG. Duo Zhang and Chi-Min Shu wrote the manuscript with contributions from all authors.

Acknowledgments

Funding: The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 51904234 and 51974240). We thank Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51904234,51974240].

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