TY - JOUR
TI - Influence of geological variations on lignite drying kinetics in superheated steam atmosphere for Belchatow deposit located in the central Poland
AU - Sciazko Anna
AU - Szmyd Janusz S
AU - Kimijima Shinji
AU - Kaneko Shozo
AU - Shikazono Naoki
AU - Hashimoto Akira
AU - Akiyama Taro
AU - Zakrzewski Marcin
AU - Komatsu Yosuke
AU - Kobayashi Yoshinori
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 4
SP - 1185
EP - 1198
PT - Article
AB - Lignite-fired coal power plants suffer from a significant heat loss due to  the high moisture content in this energy carrier. Water removal from fuel is  an indispensable treatment for improving the combustion process, which will  foster the efficient utilization of lignite. Superheated steam fluidized bed  drying is expected for this purpose in a power generation sector.  Understanding drying kinetics of lignite will greatly reinforce design  process of a dryer. Physical features as well as the drying behaviour may be  divergent among the lignite originated from different depths and positions in  a certain mine. To reveal and clarify the influence of the geological  features, the drying characteristics of several grades of lignite from the  Belchatow mine in Poland were investigated. The attempts to clarify the  influence of the divergent properties of the investigated samples on the  drying kinetics in superheated steam were presented in this paper.