US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Recovery of Value-added Fossil Resins from El-Maghara Coal in Egypt

描述：该奖项旨在支持犹他州盐湖城犹他大学冶金工程系Jan D.Miller博士和埃及赫尔万中央冶金研究开发研究所(CMRDI)Selim Mostafa博士之间的合作研究项目。煤是主要的能源之一，最近也被确定为化石树脂的重要来源。调查人员将进行一项比较研究，旨在开发一种从El-Maghara(埃及)煤中回收增值化石树脂并降低其硫含量的方法。El-Maghara煤含有有机硫和无机硫，通常分别以化石树脂和黄铁矿的形式存在。基于x射线显微CT的先进表征，将开发树脂分离和提取技术。范围：在火力发电厂和发电厂以及燃烧过程中使用煤炭会产生大量污染环境的硫氧化物，此外还会燃烧大量具有重大经济价值的化石树脂。正如本项目所寻求的那样，一旦开发出从该煤中经济地回收和提取树脂的方法，Maghara煤中的树脂的存在使其潜在的价值更高。这将对埃及煤炭行业和类似的煤炭生产国带来相当大的好处。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金计划的支持，该计划为两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些合作活动。

0308626MillerDescription: This award is to support a cooperative research project between Dr. Jan D. Miller, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt lake City, Utah and Dr. Selim Mostafa, Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Egypt. Coal is one of the principal sources of energy, and it has been identified recently also as an important source for fossil resins. The investigators will conduct a comparative research aimed at developing a methodology for the recovery of the value added fossil resin from El-Maghara (Egypt) coal and decreasing its sulfur content. El-Maghara coal contains organic and inorganic sulfur usually as fossil resin and pyrite respectively. Technology for the separation and extraction of resin will be developed based on advanced characterization using x-ray micro CT.Scope: The use of coal in thermal and power stations and during combustion produce large amounts of sulfur oxides, which contaminate the environment, in addition to burning large amounts of the fossil resins which have significant economic value. The presence of resins in Maghara coal makes it potentially much more valuable once a method for an economic recovery and extraction of resins from that coal is developed, as this project is seeking. This will be of considerable benefit to the Egyptian coal industry, and to similar coal-producing countries. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.