On-line determination of moisture in coal and coke
Creators
- 1. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Lucas Heights (Australia). Div. of Energy Chemistry
Description
The CSIRO Division of Mineral Engineering is developing various techniques for the on-line determination of moisture in coal and coke, and some instruments are now commercially available. These techniques permit accurate and rapid determination of moisture in materials directly on conveyor belts or in bins. The most promising techniques for direct on-belt measurement of moisture in coal are capacitance and microwave transmission. A non-contacting under-belt capacitance and gamma-ray backscatter technique has determined moisture in coal to better than 0.5 wt% in field tests. CSIRO is developing a fast neutron and gamma-ray transmission technique, which is proving very accurate in laboratory tests. This technique overcomes many of the limitations of thermal neutrons moisture gauges
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
- Imprint Place
- Parkville (Australia)
- ISBN
- 0 949106 14 3
- Imprint Title
- Coal power 87 : the AusIMM annual conference
- Imprint Pagination
- 406 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 397-406.
Conference
- Title
- Coal power 87.
- Dates
- May 1987.
- Place
- Newcastle (Australia).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 20045698
- Subject category
- S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COAL; COKE; CONVEYORS; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOISTURE GAGES; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
- Descriptors DEC
- CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY SOURCES; EQUIPMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ON-LINE SYSTEMS; RADIATIONS