The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)

Special Talk on Spontaneous Combustion of Low-rank Coal, Biomass and Prevention

On 18 May 2017, JGSEE-CEE invited Prof. Kouichi Miura from Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Japan to deliver a special talk on “Spontaneous combustion of low-rank coal, biomass and prevention” for JGSEE-CEE staffs and students. The Special Talk aimed at providing an understanding of the causes of spontaneous combustion occurring in low-rank coal and biomass, which is a critical problem for fuel transportation and storage. At present, his research results provide new findings in the area of fuel processing in relation to spontaneous combustion behavior. Prof. Miura has also successfully formulated the kinetics equations enabling to predict the spontaneous combustion propensity of low-rank coal and biomass. During his talk, he suggested some interesting techniques to prevent this situation from occurring.