Morphological Characterization of Super Fine Pulverized Coal Particle. Part 4. Nitrogen adsorption and Small Angle X-ray Scattering Study

Super-fine pulverized coal combustion is a new pulverized coal combustion technology that has better combustion stability, higher combustion efficiency, lower NOx and SO2 emissions, and higher comprehensive efficiency, than using conventional particle sizes. In this paper, we combined the pore surface fractal dimensions and pore structure fractal dimensions based on different methods to analyze the fractal characteristics of super fine pulverized coal particles. And the gray relational analysis was used for further study on the influencing factors of the fractal dimensions. Besides, the discrepancy between the two fractal dimensions influencing the phases during the coal combustion process was also discussed. It is found that all the fractal dimensions of the super fine pulverized coal particles range from 2.36 to 2.91, which belong to the interval 2< D < 3. It is interesting to observe that the surface fractal dimension increases with the increase of the pulverized coal particle size while the structure ...