Integral Characteristics of Stability of Coal-Water Slurries and Coal-Water Slurries Containing Petrochemicals By Evaluation of Separation Into Layers

Abstract

For wide use of coal and oil processing wastes in heat power industry we investigated the structural stability of coal-water slurries (CWS) and coal-water slurries containing petrochemicals (CWSP). Three methods of evaluating slurry stability were considered. The method of evaluation of separation (into layers) of the slurry was chosen to determine the stability of fuel compositions based on bituminous and brown coal, filter cakes of bituminous coals, waste motor, turbine, transformer, compressor oils, oil, oiled mixture and mazut. The experiments shown, that the addition of waste oils (with mass fraction of 10 %) to investigated fuel compositions leads to increase of slurry segmental stability is almost by 2 times.