Rheological Behavior Investigation of Concentrated Coal-Water Suspension

Abstract

The Haake rheometer is used to determine the rheological property of coal-water suspension (CWS) made up from Datong coal, and the obtained rheological curves are fitted using power-law, Binghamplastic, Herschel-Bulkley, Casson, and Sisko models, respectively. The fitted parameters indicate that the Herschel-Bulkley model has the maximum correlation coefficient of all the rheological models, so the Herschel-Bulkley model is selected to study the rheological property of the prepared CWS. By means of the Herschel-Bulkley model, the effects of coal concentration, dispersant dosage and electrolyte addition on rheological property of CWS are studied. The results show that CWS with higher coal concentration tend to be pseudoplastic behavior, and CWS prepared using excessive dispersant show shear-thickening flow characteristic. The addition of high-valence cationic electrolyte increase the yield value and the pseudoplastic behavior of CWS, while the addition of anionic adjusting agent decrease the yield value of CWS, and the CWS tend to be shear-thickening flow characteristic.

Keywords:

• Coal-water suspension
• Herschel-Bulkley
• rheological property
• shear-thickening

The authors acknowledge the financial support of The China Excellent Youth Scientist Fund (20925622) and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (8351064101000002).