Beneficiation of coal fines toward clean ecological fuels

摘要

The effeetivc way to reduce noxious emissions from residential heating sector is elimination of coal from direct use, substituting it by ecological solid fuels based on hard coal. Several technologies for production of ecologically friendly fuels have been developed in the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal (IChPW). The technologies based on coal fines as a raw material allow to obtain low-emission coal briquettes and granules of considerably higher ecological quality even than high grade coal. The market for briquetted solid fuels in Poland is estimated at the level of 1-2 mln t/a.