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Thermal analysis of seven Jurassic coal samples from North Shaanxi in West China and three permo-carboniferous coal samples from East China was studied to identify ignition temperatures in the process of the oxidation and spontaneous combustion. The experiments were carried out under non-isothermal heating conditions up to 700 °C at the heating rates of 5, 10, 15, and 20 °C min−1 in an air atmosphere. Through the FTIR spectrometer experiments, the absorbance peaks of functional groups of coal samples were analyzed at the ignition temperatures, pre-ignition of the 10 °C, post-ignition of the 10 °C at the heating rate of 10 °C min−1. By the differential spectrum method, the changes of functional groups were discussed with the aim to determine characteristics and reactivity of the ignition temperature around. The results showed that ignition temperatures of experimental coal samples increased with the rising heating rates, and ignition temperatures of Jurassic coals were lower than that of the permo-carboniferous coal samples at the same heating rate. Apparent activation energy of experimental Jurassic coals at the ignition temperatures was calculated by Ozawa method based on the non-isothermal and differential heating rates, ranging from 80 to 105 kJ mol−1, which were lower than that of the eastern permo-carboniferous samples. On the basis of Pearson correlation coefficient method which can signify the degree of correlations ranging from −1 to 1, the correlation analyses were conducted between activation energy and functional groups variation within 10 °C before and after ignition temperature. It was concluded that the key functional groups of Jurassic coals in the oxidation and ignition reaction were methyl and alkyl ether within 10 °C before ignition temperature, and carboxyl and carbonyl within 10 °C after ignition temperature.
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This paper was supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51134019), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program No. 2011CB411902), National Natural Science Foundation (No. 51244001), Shaanxi Innovative Research Team for Key Science and Technology (No. 2012KCT-09).
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Deng, J., Wang, K., Zhang, Y. et al. Study on the kinetics and reactivity at the ignition temperature of Jurassic coal in North Shaanxi. J Therm Anal Calorim 118, 417–423 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-3974-1
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