Abstract
Medium coking coals from West Bokaro coalfield, India, were extracted with N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and ethylenediamine (EDA) under reflux condition at atmospheric pressure. The objective of the study was to maximize the clean coal yield maintaining the specified clean coal ash content. Experimentations using three level full factorial designs were carried out to elucidate the importance of variables such as extraction time, coal to solvent ratio, and filtration mesh size upon solvent extraction of coal. To determine the significance of the effects, Pareto chart, residual analysis, and surface plots were used. It was found that the maximum extraction yield was obtained for 1 h extraction time and 1:12 coal to solvent ratio. Finer mesh (0.025 mm) size in filtration was found favorable in producing low ash clean coal (CC). Under optimum conditions it was possible to produce clean coal with 6% ash and 55% yield for coals having about 29% ash.
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