TITLE: Tri-State Synfuels Project Review: Volume 13. Coal Sampling and Testing.

INST.  AUTHOR: Tri-State Synfuels Co., Houston, TX.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  Jun 82,  44p.

ABSTRACT:

This report focuses on the sampling and testing program for run-of-mine Illinois Basin coals which was conducted for the supply and design program of the Tri-State Synfuels Project. The program is reported in detail in Coal Sampling and Testing, Volumes 1 and 2. Ten mines representative of future coal production were examined. The mines represented a mix of underground - both continuous and conventional mining - and strip mining.  The two predominant seams in each of three states were sampled. The technical data on these run-of-mine coals were judged to be representative of the coal to be mined from potentially available reserves by the various operators. The overall program was conducted to identify coals suitable for Lurgi gasification which would supplement the data from the Camp 1 coal being used as the design coal for the Tri-State Synfuels Project. The Camp 1 coal had been selected for the commercial scale gasification test at Sasolburg on the basis of its proximity to the Towhead Island Reserves, plant site and similarity of coal quality. The sampling and testing program for Camp 1 coal has been reviewed in the Tri-State Synfuels Project Review Report, Volume 14, Commercial Scale Coal Test, June 1982. (ERA citation 08:019552)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/OR/20807-T1-V.13

CONTRACT  NUMBER: FC05-81OR20807