EFFECT OF COAL PREPARATION ON NORTHERN APPALACHIAN RESERVES

The Bureau of Mines has published reports detailing the extent of coal reserves of the United States by state, county, coalbed, rank, and sulfur content. In addition, other Bureau of Mines studies have delineated the sulfur release potential of coals from principal utility-coal-producing coalbeds of the United States. An effort to determine how the present reserves of the Northern Appalachian region would be distributed by sulfur content if they were subjected to various levels of coal preparation is reported in this paper. This study was applied to the bituminous coal reserves of the Northern Appalachian region because many of the coals of this area are amenable to upgrading by physical beneficiation. Included in this region are Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and 40 northern counties of West Virginia.

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  American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Hucko, R E
  • Cavallaro, J A
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 307-416

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coal; Coal processing; Coal resources; Desulfurization; Forecasting; Freight traffic; Sulfur; Traffic forecasting
• Geographic Terms: Eastern States; Maryland; Ohio; Pennsylvania; West Virginia
• Old TRIS Terms: Coal cleaning; Coal preparation
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00170457
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1978 12:00AM