The mixture of coal and fuel oil (COM) can be handled in a similar manner to that for liquid fuels and can save oil by about 1/2. So, COM is valuable as a substitute fuel for oil.
In this report, many COM samples were prepared by the wet process that coal and fuel oil (class C) were simultaneously pulverized in a ball mill in order to examine the effects of the additives on stabilization.
None of COM samples with no additives were stable in reference to all kinds of coal (bituminous, subbituminous coal or lignite): During the still-storing at 70°C for a week, coal was settling and aggregating to reduce their flowability.
The alcohol base multi-branched high molecular nonionic surface active agents, which had been newly synthesized by the authors, were able to stabilize COM samples regardless of kind of coal (bituminous, subbituminous coal or lignite).
By contrast, anionic surface active agents were inferior in effect on stabilization. In some cases, they were effective, but these effects depended upon the kind of coal. Consequently, this type of surfactant was not suitable for the practical application.
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