The spontaneous combustion characteristics of Turkish lignite and correlation of the self-heating process with the actual fire

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2003-04-01

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Guyaguler, Tevfik
Karpuz, Celal
Bagcı, S

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Fires due to self-heating of coal have been a real problem since the beginning of mining. In order to minimize the harmful effect of fires caused by spontaneous combustion (sponcom), the tendency of coal for sponcom should be analyzed in detail. This paper presents the results of such research, which had two objectives: firstly, to determine the spontaneous combustion characteristics of lignites of all underground (u/g) mines of Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKI) in the laboratory; and secondly, to use these self-heating characteristics to predict the stage and progress of actual mine fires.

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Spontaneous combustion, Mine fires, Crossing-point temperature, Adiabatic oxidation, Turkish lignites

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55956

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CIM BULLETIN

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Department of Mining Engineering, Article

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T. Guyaguler, C. Karpuz, and S. Bagcı, “The spontaneous combustion characteristics of Turkish lignite and correlation of the self-heating process with the actual fire,” CIM BULLETIN, pp. 75–79, 2003, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/55956.