Effect of Coal Structure on Spontaneous heating using
Fourier Transform infra-red Spectroscopy

Abstract

The auto oxidation of coal ultimately results in spontaneous combustion which is the major cause for mine fire in coal mines. It has been a major cause of concern in coal producing countries like India, Australia and China. This Project deals with the effect of faliphaticity of coal with respect to spontaneous combustion and the relation of proximate analysis and calorific value of coal with the faliphaticity using FT-IR Spectroscopy (Fourier Transform Infra-red Spectroscopy) of some Indian coal. Twenty in-situ coal samples for the project were collected from different coalfields of India like BCCL, CCL, MCL, NEC, SECL, and SCCL, both from opencast as well as underground projects. The intrinsic properties of the coal samples were determined by following experimental techniques: „h Proximate analysis „h Gross Calorific Value „h Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy( FT-IR )