SOME DONBASS ANTHRACITES RECLASSIFIED TO MEET MODERN REQUIREMENTS

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• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 341
• Publication Date: July 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOME DONBASS ANTHRACITES RECLASSIFIED TO MEET MODERN REQUIREMENTS
In conformance with the approved standard (GOST 5237-50), Donbass anthra-
cites are classified according to the size of the lumps as follows:
Slab AP > 100 mm
Large AK 50-100 11
Nut AO 25-50
Fine AM 13-25 ?
Pea AS 6-13
ASh LeSs than 6
Culm.
In addition to these grades, the following grades of anthracite also
exist:
Run-of-the-mine
anthracite with culm ARSh 0-100 mm
Pea coal with culm ASSh 0-13 11
The GOST has also provided for separating an AZ class (anthracite rice
coal) with the size of the lumps ranging from 3-6 millimeters.
The indicated system of classifying Donbass anthracites was connected
historically with the most efficient use of anthracite, according to grades,
as fuel in installations of different types. A relatively short time ago,
the layer method was the only one for the industrial consumption of anthra-
cites and the chief consumers were railroad locomotives and plant-heating
boiler installations.
Boiler installations were provided with manually operated grates, often
functioning without induced draft. Jr. proportion to the increase in capacity
of stationary boilers, layer burning of anthracite on chain grates increased
in practice. Fireboxes, designed specifically for layer combustion, operated
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successfully on graded fuel, and, when anthracite was used for layer combustion,
was icalcr awhich make Pitdonefof anthracite
use
nh ys icochemchemi al properties
for industrial combustion.
Since a large nember of the manual.y operated. fireboxes operated without
induced draft, it became expedient to burn large grades of anthracite in them
becaust, in this case, very little resistance of the layer resulted. The AK,
AO, and AM grades were selected for firet-or f ue: Further progress in the tech-
nique of layer combustion, in conn-ction w_th the adoption of forced draft, has
made it possible to use the smaller A`d grade ef,-ect!'%eiy-
In Tsarist Russia, culm, the ASh grade f anthracite, was not utilized at
alp. Soviet power engineering p_cneered '.n a .rIi c.oJm in p,__ver:zed form in
regional electric power station-.. In t way ..no crohiem of utilizing all
graces of Donbass anthracite vas -.lied
Modern technique, however, has. intrcdu:ed new Mechanized coal
mining has increased the culm content of ohs anthracite, mined to such an extent
that consumers requirements for graded arthracits for layer combustion cannot
be satisfied On the other hand, modern oy,)es -)f layer-combustion fireboxes
have been designed whi_h present other regniremr,nts as to the grade of coal
burned in them. Therefore, it is advsa` to rev'-se the existing system of
classifying Donbass anthracites to conform to new mining and combustion condi-
tions
Mechanization of fuel combustion in industrial power engineering is
spreading extensively at present. One of the principal characteristics of fire-
boxer with stokers is their ability to burn a mixture of anthracites of differ-
ent grades with the maximum size of the lump about 30 millimeters. The author
suggests the advisability of creating a new anthracite grade, to be called AZM,
to include lum,,s ranging in size from 3-25 millimeters and embracing the sum
total of the AZ, AS, and AM grades.
This new classification for anthracites wild reduce the culm content in
anthracite mining since it would now include only lumps from 0-3 millimeters in
size instead of lumps from 0-6 millimeters E'.ectri~_ power stations would not
have to consume so much electricity in crushing the smaller lump culin supplied
:, work to 1c san-e three grades would be
to them: Grading plants would have i..?-- .
combined in one.
CO i~VE U s !.
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