Evaluating coking resources. 2. State standard GOST 25543-88 as a coding system for coal and coal mixtures in evaluating their technological properties

The codification of coal in State Standard 25543-88 is compared with the international codification of coal of medium and high rank. The ranking of coking coal on the basis of State Standard GOST 25543-88 is evaluated.     

Advantage of heat insulation made of materials with natural porosity

Various heat insulation materials produced at home and abroad are compared. The advantage of using natural nano-structured materials is substantiated. Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 7, pp. 41–44, July 2008.     

Tellurium clusters in channels of the porous silica ZSM-11

The distribution and structure of tellurium nanoclusters synthesized in crystal channels of the porous silica ZSM-11 are investigated using the maximum-entropy method and the Rietveld analysis. It is shown that the intercalated tellurium atoms are arranged in channels of the ZSM-11 zeolite not randomly but in the form of scraps of infinite chains similar to those observed in massive tellurium. The distances between the nearest neighbor tellurium atoms vary in the range 2.53(4)–2.70(3) ?. The clusters Te₄ are formed at the intersections of channels in the structure. These clusters have the form of distorted tetrahedra in which the tellurium atoms are separated by distances of 2.53(4) and 2.90(4) ?. Original Russian Text ? A.E. Lapshin, Yu.F. Shepelev, Yu.I. Smolin, E.A. Vasil’eva, 2008, published in Fizika i Khimiya Stekla.     

Software for computing dusty air flows in ventilation systems

Programs are presented for calculating dusty air flow in ventilation systems, which have been derived from the method of singular integral equations. They allow one to construct flow lines and determine the velocity pattern for the air in a closed rectangular region with outlet, flow, and extraction holes; a study is made on the dust particle behavior in the aerodynamic field in which there may be a rotating cylinder or pumping cylinder; determinations are made of the concentration and grain-size composition of the dust in the extraction hole; one can construct flow lines and single-particle paths in multicoupled regions of potential flows containing any number of rotating cylinders and cylinder pumps. Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 5, pp. 53–58, May, 2008.     

Reproducibility of plastic measurements: The need to modify State Standard GOST 1186-87

A very important characteristic of coking coal is its clinkering ability, i.e., its ability to form a nonvolatile solid residue, consisting of disparate grains, on heating in specific conditions. The clinkering ability of the coal is determined by the properties of its plastic mass. Various methods may be used to evaluate the plastic-ductile properties of the coal. However, since the 1930s, the main method used to evaluate the clinkering properties of coal, within the nations of the former Soviet Union, has been the Sapozhnikov-Bazilevich plastometric method, because it provides more information than competing approaches. For the same reason, the thickness of the plastic layer, which is one of the parameters determined by this method, is used for coal classification in State Standard GOST 25543-88 (Lignite, Coal, and Anthracite: Genetic and TEchnological Classification) and its Ukrainian counterpart DSTU 3472-96 (Lignite, Coal, and Anthracite: Classification). This explains the strict requirements on the accuracy and reliability of the plastometric characteristics.     

Study of the microstructure of ceramics from different producers used for protecting precious metal thermocouples

Results are provided for a study of the microstructure of ceramics from four different producers by means of a scanning electron microscope and x-ray microanalysis. Results show that ceramic specimens often do not correspond to claimed parameters. The main disadvantages are ceramic structural inhomogeneity, presence of phases of a different nature, intergranular pores and cracks, and alkali impurities. The ceramics of only one producer correspond to the main parameters for this class, and this is provided by high production technology and starting material quality. Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 7, pp. 31–35, July 2008.