COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COAL PREPARATION AND TECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDN 4005 COAL PREPARATION AND TECHNOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Mining Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR VEDAT ARSLAN

Offered to

Mining Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

Instructing Coal Specifications, coal preparation and washing methods and application principals. And also instruction the utilization processes of coal which are Carbonization, Gasification and combustion applications.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Determine the coal type by using coal specifications and able to comment.
2   Designate the coal pre investigations of coal preparation and comparative comments for applications.
3   Able to analyses selection criteria of methods and suggestions. Able to performance analysis.
4   Describe of dewatering and drying methods and able to choose .
5   Able to analyse relations between coal specifications and utilization areas.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Aims of coal preparation, environmental limitations on coal utilizations, and marketing specifications for coal, reserves and formation of coals.
2 Coal types, coal properties, coal petrology, coal analysis and characterizations and classification, Sampling for, sample preparation and size distribution analyses.
3 Size reduction, crushers and grinders, stocking and homogenization
4 Washability analyses, basics of coal washing according to gravity, method selection according to size.
5 Hydraulic based methods
6 Mid. term exam 1
7 Coal washing in heavy media, Heavy media based processes
8 Fine coal upgrading methods based on surface properties (flotation, agglomeration), dewatering and drying systems
9 Coking properties of coal, defining coking properties, methods of determining coking properties, optical properties of coal
10 Coal carbonization methods, low temperature carbonization, metallurgical coke production.
11 Combustion of coal and combustion methods.
12 Mid. Term exam 2
13 Coal gasification
14 Presentation of homework reports, discussion and evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Kömür Teknolojisi, M. Kemal, V. Arslan, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayını, 2010, Izmir.

Supplementary Book(s):
Chemistry of coal utilisation, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1981
Coal Preparation Technology, OSBORNE, D.G., Graham&Trotman Ltd., 1988
Coal Preparation,LEONARD, J.W., Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., 1991

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation with visual instructions and homework.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + ASG * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.35 + ASG * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Vedat ARSLAN: vedat.arslan@deu.edu.tr Tel: +90 232 301 75 18

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 14 1,5 28
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 18 18
Preparation for Final Exam 1 18 18
Preparing Homework 1 10 10
Final 1 1,5 2
Mid-term 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 106

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.15
LO.2335
LO.3554
LO.45
LO.525

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