THERMODYNAMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOR
OF ASH-FORMING COMPONENTS IN BURNING COAL

G. Ya. Gerasimov

UDC 662.61

A thermodynamic approach to description of the behavior 
of the fuel-oxidizer system in burning coal is employed to reveal 
the basic regularities of the process of redistribution of the chemical 
elements of its mineral part among the ash-forming components. It 
is shown that the composition of the mineral part is of prime importance 
in this process.

M. V. Lomonosov Institute of Mechanics, Moscow State University, 
Moscow, Russia; email: gerasimov@imec.msu.ru. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 84-88, 
January-February, 2003. Original article submitted May 29, 2002.