The changes of reflectance and anisotripic structure of heat-treated coals have been examined.
The reflectance of H.T. coals in creases with the rise of heating temperature, and the increasing rate of reflectance is abruptly great above the resolidification temperature .
Howerer, the accurate measurements of the reflectance are difficult above the resolidification temperature due to the development of anisotropic texture.
The anisotropic texture appeared in the H. T. coals is assorted as follows; isotropic texture, fine and coarse mosaic texture, incompletely and completely fibrous texture, and leaflet texture.
On the basis of this assortment, the degree of development of anisotropic regions has been estimated quantitatively with point-counter methods.
1) The variation of anisotropic texture depends on the rank of coal.
For non caking and weakly caking coals, it is difficult to find the anisotropic texture in the heat treated coal and the isotropic texture keeps even at the higher temperature.
In case of caking coals, the mosaic texture appears by heating, and the same texture hold up to the higher temperature .
For coking coals, the isotropic texture turns to masaic and fibrous textures. Then the latter increases with the rise of heating temperature.
2) The temperature at which anisotropic textue appears.
The anisotropic texture becomes obervable for caking and coking coals kept for 4 hours at constants temperature in the range 390-400°C.
3) The effect of residence time
For coking coal heated at 400°C, the anisotropic region expands gradually with residence time.
And the region of fibrous texture increases with the icrease of residence time.
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