Abstract

Not only cleaning but refining of coal has become an area of utmost importance both industrially and academically because of stringent environmental norms being imposed globally for arresting the climate change. However, coal is a polluting fuel, therefore, there is a grave need of deep refining of coal to obtain ashless coal for increasing its efficiency of utilization in order to minimize its impact on environment. The presence of ash in coal also greatly reduces the coal utility because of its deleterious effect on the boiler parts and gasification equipment. Solvent extraction (organo-refining) techniques produce Super Clean Coal (SCC) or Ultra Clean Coal (UCC) with almost zero ash content. The utilization of the SCC in the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Generation would increase the availability of this otherwise efficient and cleaner coal technology. Research work on different processes of solvent extraction of coal under varying conditions of temperature, pressure, and the natu...

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