author tried to use the Leitz's heating microscope, designed for determining the melting behaviour of inorganic substances at high temperatures, in order to observe the process of coke formation directly and continuously, and reported the interesting.results onthese matters.
In this paper, the author has studied the process of softening and melting in Miike coals and its ashes. At the same time, the petrological study has been done, and have compared these phenomena with the former results.
The results, of experiments were summarized as follows:
(1) From the experimental studies on the petrological constituents, it was recognized that the accumulation of exinite-Durite, one of the important petrological constituents in Miike coal, was rich in the part of low specific gravities (&1.25) and Vitrite high ones.
(2) The softening and melting curves of coal ash had showed generally the change points of minimum and maximum, but it has been recognized that these temperatures in Miike coal are particularly low, moreover, the beginning point of softening in the parts of low specific gravities is nearly agreed with the beginning point of melting.
(3) As the characteristic changes of coal specimens, the small cracks grew up with the increase of temperature, the reflectivity of coal surface increased. Then, the surface changed into dark, soon began to swell.
Thus, it has been shown that all of the swelling phenomena in Miike coals is always peculiar, besides its temperature is lower than that of the other coals.
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