Abstract
The wettability of coal plays a crucial role in determining the effectiveness of mine dust reduction, coal flotation, and coal water slurry preparation. This property is influenced by various factors, including coal structure and liquid properties. To investigate the impact of coal’s chemical properties on its wetting behavior, we employed different experimental to characterize the chemical structures of six types of coal. Utilizing contact angle experiments and gray slope correlation analysis, we determined the correlation between each chemical structure parameter and the wetting characteristics of the coal samples. Our findings revealed that 6#Yangquan anthracite has the lowest wettability and its contact angle is 85.3°. Within the coal’s functional group structure, the CH2 symmetric stretching vibration exhibited the highest correlation (0.944) with coal wetting properties. Regarding the elemental composition of coal, oxygen exhibited a higher correlation with coal-wetting properties (carbonyl oxygen structure, 0.788; phenol hydroxyl and ether oxygen bond, 0.798; carboxyl oxygen structure, 0.734). In the carbon skeleton structure of coal, the protonated aryl carbon exhibited the highest correlation degree of 0.944. These results offer insights into the selection of evaluation indices for assessing the influence of coal wetting characteristics and optimizing the hydrophilic and hydrophobic features of the coal surface.
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