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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 8, 2016
Mineral Engineering Conference MEC2016
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| Article Number | 01052 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160801052 | |
| Published online | 16 September 2016 | |
Coal recovery from a coal waste dump
1 Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mining of Geology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
2 Institut of Mining Technology KOMAG, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
a Corresponding author: Zenon.Rozanski@polsl.pl
The possibilities and efficiency of coal recovery from the waste material located at the Central Coal Waste Dump in Poland were presented in this paper. The waste material includes significant amount of fly ash. Research conducted into determination of energetic properties of such wastes showed that the average ash content was 75.75% and the average gross calorific value was 7.81 MJ/kg. Coal was gravitationally separated from the waste material in a pulsatory jig and in a spiral washer including size fractions: 30-5 and 8-0 mm (this was crushed to a size <3.2 mm), respectively. The application of the pulsatory jig (pulse classifier) allowed to obtain a high-quality energetic concentrate with the ash content lower than 12% and the gross calorific value higher than 26 MJ/kg (with average yield 7.8%). The spiral separator gave much worse results. The average gross calorific value for the concentrate was 11.6 MJ/kg, with the high ash content 56.5% and yield approximately 26%.
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