Spontaneous combustion of coal stockpiles - an unusual chemical reaction engineering problem

✍ Scribed by Kevin Brooks; Steven Bradshaw; David Glasser

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 608 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(88)87095-7

✦ Synopsis

Spontaneous combustion of stockpiled coal occurs because of reaction between atmospheric gases and coal, and causes pollution, as well as the potential loss of all or part of the stockpile. The stockpile may be viewed as a chemical reactor, and chemical engineering methods may be used to analyse and understand this problem.