Structure of the cokes obtained from the group components separated from coking coal vitrites by selective thermosolvolysis

The examination of the structure of cokes obtained from extracts separated from preheated vitrites of coking coals by progressive and continuous extraction with chloroform was carried out. The structural ordering (interplanar spacing and crystallite dimensions) of the cokes depends on the rank of the parent vitrites but it does not depend on the degree of extraction. The occurrence of optical anisotropy in cokes from the extracts is connected with both the rank of the parent vitrite and the degree of extraction. In the formation of the optical anisotropic structure during the carbonization of coking coal vitrites, the part of the extract which is of small size, which partially undergoes decomposition, is an important factor.