Category: Com III
Automation
| January 29, 2013 | Filled under Com III |
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The Automation Working Group uses programmable devices to automatically collect data on coal. Originally, these data were generated by photometers and gathered from DVM?s (digital volt meters), but now they are likely to be digital images from CCD (charge couple device) cameras. Usually, there is no attempt to identify the maceral source of the measured […] more
Coal Blends Accreditation Program
| January 29, 2013 | Filled under Com III |
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The Coal Blends Working Group is concerned with the investigation of coal blends using microscopic methods. This Working Group was established during the 47th ICCP Meeting at Krakow, Poland, in 1995. Prof. Dr. Alan Davis was the first Convenor (1996 and 1997) followed by Dr. Isabel Suárez-Ruiz from 1998 till 2019. Since 2020 Dr. Malgorzata […] more
Combustion
| January 29, 2013 | Filled under Com III |
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Aims of the Working Group The wide possibilities foreseen from the application of petrographic techniques to the study of chars encouraged the formation of a new Working Group within Commission III (industrial applications) of the ICCP, at the Doncaster meeting in1986 (see photo). Margaretha Bengtsson was elected as the convenor of this new working group. […] more
Coke Petrography
| January 29, 2013 | Filled under Com III, Workinggroups |
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Objectives To establish a classification of coke textures which is reproducible and which can predict coke technological properties. Activities Round Robin exercises have been conducted by asking participants to identify specific points in colour photographs in order to the scheme that was previously agreed upon. The activities involved different levels: distinction between isotropic or not; […] more
Environmental Application of Organic Petrology
| January 29, 2013 | Filled under Com III |
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The Environmental Application of Organic Petrology Working Group was formed at the 45th Annual Meeting of the ICCP held at Chania, Crete, Greece in 1993. Objectives The original objectives of the Working Group under A. Depers & J. Bailey guidance were: to review case studies where organic petrology has helped to solve environmental problems; to compile information on methods […] more