Abstract
Based on heat and mass transfer characteristics of spontaneous combustion of coal, Arrhenius equation and the Ranz-Marshall correlation, a novel approach was proposed in this paper to estimate oxygen consumption rate of self-ignition of coal at high temperature. Compared with the conventional methods, this approach involves not only kinetic properties of self-ignition of coal and temperature, but also the ambient air flow characteristics and diameter of coal particle. To testify the proposed approach, oxygen consumption rates at high temperature were measured by the programmable isothermal oven experiments. Comparisons between experimental and theoretical results indicate that the rates of oxygen depletion calculated by the proposed approach agree well with those measured from laboratory-scale experiments, which further validates the proposed approach.
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