Coal slurry consists of solid and liquid product of a coal preparation plant. As a slurry, coal is separated from non-combustable components (ash) and can be fractionated by particle size as well. Coal slurry can be transferred by pipeline or with specialised pumps such as a progressive cavity pump to pump the highly abrasive, corrosive and viscous coal slurry.
The scale of water usage and hence potential costs and problems is large. More than 7 billion tons of coal are mined per year (2010), using approximately 200 litres of water per ton.
Environmental concerns
Ideally, coal slurry consists only of crushed coal and water, which can be separated perfectly at low cost. In practice, the separation is significantly costly. Furthermore, the slurry consists also of very fine coal dust that results in a waste called blackwater, which is stored in large impoundment ponds, often together with coal ash. Such ponds are susceptible to disastrous releases. This impounded liquid waste can sometimes total billions of gallons in a single facility.
...Disaster of 1966 when rainy weather contributed to a catastrophic flood of coal-mining waste, called slurry, sliding downhill into the town of Aberfan.
... place in Wales, eight months after the Aberfan Disaster of 1966 when rainy weather contributed to a catastrophic flood of coal-mining waste, called slurry, sliding downhill into the town of Aberfan.
The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed ... Pipes in Martin County, Kentucky lose about 64 percent of what flows through them, a problem that started 24 years ago when a toxic coal slurry spill damaged them ... Donate Now. .
In December 2008, the 5.4-million-cubic-yard torrent from a coal ash slurry-filled pond, an impoundment holding smokestack ash and water owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, relocated a road and a ...
DePriest’s concerns about the dam trace back to the Buffalo Creek mine disaster of 1972 when three coal slurry dams failed in West Virginia; the rush of more than 130 million gallons of black water ...
... companies, the lack of vegetation allowing walls of water to cascade down them unrestricted; they did not contain coal-slurry ponds teetering on the brink of collapse, spilling into the hollers below.
... coal ... Coal ash impoundments failing have led to environmental disaster, such as when more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash slurry poured into the Emory River near Kingston, Tennessee, in 2008.
... the Pantglas Junior School in slurried mining waste ... The Aberfan disaster in October 1966 saw a slurry of coal waste descend on the Welsh village after a night of heavy rain, burying several buildings.
This was meant to reform the widespread practice of creating so-called coal ash ponds where the toxin is stored in a wet slurry ... For decades, utilities fought coal ash regulation every step of the way with legislation, lawsuits, and lobbying.”.
... commissioning of HSM (hot strip mills), and benefits of captive coal and pellets along with a slurry pipeline/conveyor belt would aid EBITDACAGR of 31 per cent over FY24–26E,' said Nuvama.Also Read.
... in the coal cutter, prompting on-site maintenance. During the maintenance process, a sudden surge of coal slurry from the coal warehouse engulfed and buried the seven miners, said the statement.
Lower coal costs (further ramp up at GarePalma IV/6 and Utkal block C), slurry pipeline (expected commissioning in 1QFY25 and reduced cost by ₹1,500 per ton of steel) will support FY25 margins.
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Besides, in the plant of Gaozhuang CoalCompany, Zaozhuang Mining Group under ShandongEnergy Group, coal gangue is used for road construction and brick making, while tail coal slurry is transformed to improve the yield of medium coal.
The Scranton Times-Tribune
16 Aug 2024
The Scranton Times-Tribune
16 Aug 2024