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Clean Coal Technology

By Prof. Barun Kumar Nandi   |   IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Learners enrolled: 331   |  Exam registration: 67
ABOUT THE COURSE:
In this course fundamentals of coal cleaning, coal combustion, coal gasification, environmental pollution control from coal-based industries are discussed in details. For utilization of coal in any industrial application, initially coal are cleaned/beneficiated to meet the required quality for any particular application like pre designed boiler or gasified. Further details of coal combustion theory, burning characteristics evaluation, environmental pollution control from coal based thermal power plant, coal gasification will be discussed. Few lectures will discuss about the IGCC and coal bed methane.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG & PG students of Chemical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Fuel & Energy Engineering, Environmental Engineering

PREREQUISITES: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND COAL

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: NTPC, COAL INDIAL LIMITED, POWER AND STELL INDUSTRIES
Summary
Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Metallurgy and Material science & Mining Engineering
  • Minor in Metallurgy
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 20 Jan 2025
End Date : 11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends : 03 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 28 Feb 2025
Exam Date : 04 May 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1: Coal quality parameters: Coal quality parameters for utilization in thermal power plant, cement, steel and DRI plant. Concept and role of GCV, ash, volatile matter etc during utilization. Types of sulfur present in coal and their impact.
Week 2: Cleaning of coal: Precombustion cleaning, Jiging, dense media cyclone, spiral concentrator, froth flotation, oil agglomeration, Biological and chemical cleaning methods.
Week 3: Combustion Fundamentals. Shrining core model, Burning profile of coal, Heat release rate, burning time, unburned carbon control.
Week 4: Role of volatile matter, fixed carbon, coal particle density, particle size, primary air, secondary air etc. on coal combustion.
Week 5: Coal combustion calculations
Week 6: Pulverized and fluidized bed combustor, AFBC, CFBC, PFBC etc.
Week 7: Emission control from combustion utilities: Fly ash, SOx and NOx control strategies during combustion and after combustion
Week 8: Use of ESP, Cyclones, Filters and settling chambers. Oxy fuel combustion.
Week 9: Coal gasification: Gasifying agents: oxygen, air, steam, reactions involved in gasification. Effect of fuel properties on product, blending of fuels. Syn gas, Fuel gas.
Week 10: Fixed bed, moving bed, fluidized bed, entrained bed etc.Product gas cleaning and energy utilization, removal of H2S, NH3, tar, suspended particulate matter.
Week 11: Introduction to coal based power generation, Rankin cycle, gas turbine, combined cycle. Combined cycle power generation (IGCC)
Week 12: Underground coal gasification (UCG), Coal bed methane, recovery of methane from CBM (Coal Bed Methane), CMM (Coal Mine Methane), AMM (Abandoned Mine Methane).

Books and references

1. Fuel and Combustion: Samir Sarkar.
2.Elements of Fuels, Furnaces and Refractories: O P Gupta
3.Environmental Engineering: Howard S Peavy, Donald R Rowe, George Tchobanoglous.

Instructor bio

Prof. Barun Kumar Nandi

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Dr. Barun Kumar Nandi is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Fuel Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. He has perused BE and ME in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University and obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from IIT Guwahati. His current research interests include Coal and Mineral Processing, Coal combustion, Thermochemical conversion of coal and biomass, Clean Coal Technology, Renewable Energy, Water Treatment Technologies, Membrane Separation Process and Advanced Separation Processes. He has guided 10 PhD and several M Tech students to for their dissertations. Most of the PG and PhD thesis are based on coal combustion, coal beneficiation and coal-biomass cofiring studies. He has published more than 60 international SCI journal papers and several National and International conference papers.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams:May 4, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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