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

0308626米勒描述：该奖项是为了支持博士Jan D。犹他州湖城犹他州大学冶金工程系的米勒和埃及赫勒万中央冶金研究与发展研究所（CMRDI）的塞利姆·穆斯塔法博士。 煤是能源的主要来源之一，并且它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。 树脂的分离和提取技术将根据先进的表征使用X射线显微CT开发。范围：在火力发电厂和燃烧过程中使用煤产生大量的硫氧化物，污染环境，除了燃烧大量的化石树脂，具有显着的经济价值。Maghara煤中树脂的存在使得一旦开发出从该煤中经济回收和提取树脂的方法，其潜在价值将大大增加，正如本项目所寻求的那样。 这将对埃及煤炭工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-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，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.