A study of the mixture of coal and residue of the vacuum distillation of crude oil by thermal analysis

TLDR: In this article, the effect of the addition of the residue obtained from crude oil vacuum distillation on the carbonization process of brown coal was investigated by using the Coats-Redfern equation.

Abstract: Thermal analysis was used for investigating the effect of the addition of the residue obtained from crude oil vacuum distillation on the carbonization process of brown coal. The kinetic analysis of the experimental TG curves was carried out by using the Coats-Redfern equation and then to select the most likely mechanism (functiong (α)) for particular decomposition stages of brown coal and its mixture with the residue. In the brown coal carbonization process the nucleation of a new solid phase is predominant. In the temperature range of the decomposition of coal (620–820 K) the addition of residue results a change in the mechanism of the thermal decomposition process — in the mixture three-dimensional diffusion processes and one-dimensional diffusion occur, depending on the composition. Above 730 K (secondary carbonation processes) the most likely mechanism involves the nucleation of a new solid phase as well as diffusion processes.