Three Pennsylvania anthracites from the Penn State Coal Sample Bank and Data Base were heat-treated to temperatures to 2900 °C. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction. These anthracites clearly differ in the extent to which they transform to a graphitic structure by heat treatment at ambient pressure. Graphitizability, based on approach of interlayer spacing to the ideal value for graphite and development of crystallite height, is in the order DECS 21 > PSOC 1461 > PSOC 1468. By 2700 °C the interlayer spacing is largely established, since improvements by increasing graphitization temperature to 2900 °C are small. The crystallite stacking continues to develop; significant changes are achieved at 2900 vs 2700 °C. The structural changes can be related to composition via two factors. In heat treatment to 2000 °C, the structural ordering may be impeded by a "locking" of aromatic sheets in place by cross-linkers, such as oxygen atoms. At the higher temperatures, i.e., 2700 and 2900 °C, the ease of rearrangement of aromatic sheets, which is related to their size, is the dominant issue. The relative sizes of aromatic sheets can be approximated from the net hydrogen content of the anthracites. DECS-21, which has both the highest oxygen content and the highest net hydrogen value, shows the least order after heat treatment to 2000 °C, but the best structural development after reaction at 2700 or 2900 °C.
This paper describes recent results of AF-sponsored research in the thermal stability of high temperature fuels. At temperatures of 550 °C (1000 °F) and above, both thermal -oxidative and pyrolytic deposition are important. A brief discussion of deposition characteristics and mitigation measures is presented.
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