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Coal (Use of Coal - Past, Present and Future (Coal usage in the USA is…
Coal
Use of Coal - Past, Present and Future
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China however still high as has been increasing up until 2013 with 2015 at 3,732 MT
. Over a third of all housing units were heated by coal in 1950
but only 0.2% were coal heated in 1999.
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Formation
Found in seams
coal formed
in situ (that is, where the vegetation grew and fell
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Classification
proximate
analysis gives the relative amounts of moisture, volatile matter, ash
ultimate analysis
gives the amounts of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen comprising
the coal
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Coal Rank
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Coal Type
Vitrinite, extrinite and inertinite
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Exinite group macerals were derived from plant resins, spores, cuticles,
and algal remains
inertinite group macerals were derived
mostly from woody tissues, plant degradation products, or fungal remains
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Defined as coal is a
chemically and physically heterogeneous, “combustible,” sedimentary rock
consisting of both organic and inorganic material.