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To determine the effect of volatile matter on combustion reactivity, the pyrolysis and combustion behavior of a set of four (R, C, M and K coals) coals and their chars has been investigated in a TGA (SDT Q600). The maximum reaction temperatures and maximum reaction rates of the coals and their chars with different heating rates (5–20 °C/min) were analyzed and compared as well as their weight loss rates. The volatile matter had influence on decreasing the maximum reactivity temperature of low and medium rank coals (R, C and M coals), which have relatively high volatiles (9.5–43.0%), but for high rank coal (K coal) the maximum reactivity temperature was affected by reaction surface area rather than by its volatiles (3.9%). When the maximum reaction rates of a set of four coals were compared with those of their chars, the slopes of the maximum reaction rates for the medium rank coals (C and M coals) changed largely rather than those for the high and low rank coals (R and K coals) with increasing heating rates. This means that the fluidity of C and M coals was larger than that of their chars during combustion reaction. Consequently, for C and M coals, the activation energies are lower (24.5–28.1 kcal/mol) than their chars (29.3–35.9 kcal/mol), while the activation energies of R and K coals are higher (25.0-29.4 kcal/mol) than those of their chars (24.1–28.9 kcal/mol).
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Lee, JM., Kim, DW. & Kim, JS. Reactivity study of combustion for coals and their chars in relation to volatile content. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 26, 506–512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-009-0086-x
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