Taking a closer look at coal

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04/08/2009

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Table of Contents Taking a closer look at coal Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Origin of coal
    1. Coal as fuel
  3. Review of the literature
  4. Method of the study
    1. Composition of coal
    2. Types of coal
    3. Distillation of coal or pyrolysis
  5. Conclusion
  6. References

Abstract

The word "coal" came from Anglo-Saxon col, which meant charcoal. coal was not mined in Britain before the late Middle Ages; i.e. after ca. 1000 AD. Mineral coal was referred to as sea-coal, either because it was found on beaches occasionally having fallen from the exposed coal seams above or washed out of underwater coal seam outcrops, or because it was easier to transport by sea rather than on the very poor road system. coal is formed from plant remains that have been compacted, hardened, chemically altered, and metamorphosed by heat and pressure over geologic time. coal was formed in swamp ecosystems. These swamp environments were formed during slow subsidence of passive continental margins, and most seem to have formed adjacent to estuarine and marine sediments suggesting that they may have been in tidal delta environments. When plants die in these peat swamp environments, their biomass is deposited in anaerobic aquatic environments where low oxygen levels prevent their complete decay by bacteria and oxidation.

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