Brown coals of Far East – natural resource for multipurpose industrial processing

Anatoliy Sorokin,Andrey Konyushok,I Rasskazov,S Tkach,S Kornilkov

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20185603018

Abstract

The analysis of the potential economic value of brown coals of the Far East of Russia is carried out when to use them as a complex chemical mineral resource. It was conducted assessment of industrial attractiveness to use coal combustion or coal chemical processing wastes as an additional source of gold, rare metals and rare earth elements. The Sergeevskoye brown coal deposit of the Zeya-Bureya Sedimentary Basin in the Amur Region was proposed as a potential standard facility for the construction of a coal-chemical processing plant to produce resin, montan wax, complex hydrocarbons with associated gold, rare metals and rare earth elements recovery.

Highlights

In the economic complex of Russia and a number of other countries, according to experts'forecasts, hard, bituminous and brown coals remain the main sources of thermal and electric power at Thermal Power Plants
The analysis of the potential economic value of brown coals of the Far East of Russia is carried out when to use them as a complex chemical mineral resource
The Sergeevskoye brown coal deposit of the Zeya-Bureya Sedimentary Basin in the Amur Region was proposed as a potential standard facility for the construction of a coal-chemical processing plant to produce resin, montan wax, complex hydrocarbons with associated gold, rare metals and rare earth elements recovery

Summary

Introduction

In the economic complex of Russia and a number of other countries, according to experts'. Balance reserves in the basin in the amount of 3.8 billion tonnes were explored in 7 deposits (Svobodnoye, Sergeevskoye, Tygdinskoye, Yerkovetskoye, Raichikhinskoye, Arkharo-Boguchanskoye, Ogodzhinskoye). They are represented mainly by lignite and brown coal - 99.1 %, the rest - bituminous coal. The main ones are coals of group 1B (2.3 billion tonnes), which are low-quality raw materials that are not suitable without enrichment as energy fuel, but are very promising as a complex chemical and rare metal resource. 2033, despite the increase in the use of natural gas for power generation This is due to the forecast of the outstripping demand for electricity, justified by economic factors, including population growth on the planet [2]. Combustion, chemical processing, extraction of mineral components and metals from coal combustion products (CCP)

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