COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COAL PREPERATION AND WASHING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5061 COAL PREPERATION AND WASHING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR VEDAT ARSLAN

Offered to

Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing

Course Objective

Teaching the important parameters of coal washing, teaching the environmental restraints and requirements for the market. The course aims to make the students be able to determine the coal washability and effect of the choice method. Teaching the coal preparation, coal washing and coal dewatering methods. Teaching the determine and comment efficiency and performance of coal preparation, control of the process tailings. Teaching the construct of flow sheet and solid-water balance.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowing the aim of coal preparation, evaluate the coal properties according the market
2   Define the relationship between coal properties and coal preparation
3   Adopt a coal preparation method and improve flowsheet.
4   Knowing and choosing the coal dewatering and drying methods according the coal properties.
5   Analysing the coal preparation tailings for environmental effects and define suitable depony technique.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The aims of coal preparation, environmental restrictions for coal utulizations, coal marketing properties, word coal rezerves and trade, coal formation
2 Coal structural properties, coal petrology, sampling, coal analysis and characterization, communition size analysis
3 Crushing, grinding, homogenization
4 Washability analysis
5 Basis of gravity concentration methods and selection criteria
6 Water based processes
7 Heavy media seperation
8 Mid Term
9 Homework data and definitons
10 Flotation and agglomeration
11 Dry cleaning methods
12 Dewatering and drying
13 Tailings control and evaluation
14 Submitting the assignment and discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Kömür Teknolojisi, M. Kemal, V. Arslan, DEÜ Mühendislik Fakültesi Yayını, 201, Izmir

Chemistry of coal utilsation, John Wiley &sons, New York, 1981.
Coal Preparation Technology, Osborne, D.G., Graham&Trotman Ltd, 1988
Coal Preparation, Leonard J.W., society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploraiton Inc, 1991

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, LO2 and LO3 for midterm
LO2, LO3 and LO4 for assingment
LO2,LO3,LO4 and LO5 for final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Case study 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.133
LO.2544
LO.35
LO.44
LO.5343

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