TY - JOUR
T1 - Tribocharging of macerals with various materials
T2 - Role of surface oxygen-containing groups and potential difference of macerals
AU - He, Xin
AU - Sun, Hao
AU - Zhao, Bin
AU - Chen, Xiaowei
AU - Zhang, Xinxi
AU - Komarneni, Sridhar
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China ( U1361104 ), Second-class General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ( 2015M581901 ) and the China Scholarship Council .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Triboelectrostatic separation of vitrinite and inertinite depends on their differences in tribocharging behavior. In the present study, charge-to-mass ratios of two macerals with six tribocharging materials, i.e., aluminum, stainless steel, copper, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyamide (PA) were conducted for the first time under various environmental factors. PA was found to be the preferred material for tribocharging because vitrinite and inertinite displayed opposite charge polarity with it. Characterization of surface oxygen-containing groups on macerals and their quantitative estimation were conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) technique. Polar groups such as –OH and COOH were detected to be the major proportion in inertinite whereas vitrinite exhibited mainly nonpolar groups of –O–, which indicate tendency of their surface charge. For the first time, atomic force microscopy (AFM) was utilized to investigate the surface topography and potential difference of macerals. Inertinite showed 0.42 V higher surface potential than vitrinite, which well fits with their charge polarity and movement during triboelectrostatic separation. However, the instability of surface potential difference on inertinite may leads to disorder in its charge polarity, which makes Cu as an alternative material because both macerals have great charge gap with Cu and they also have same charge polarity.
AB - Triboelectrostatic separation of vitrinite and inertinite depends on their differences in tribocharging behavior. In the present study, charge-to-mass ratios of two macerals with six tribocharging materials, i.e., aluminum, stainless steel, copper, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyamide (PA) were conducted for the first time under various environmental factors. PA was found to be the preferred material for tribocharging because vitrinite and inertinite displayed opposite charge polarity with it. Characterization of surface oxygen-containing groups on macerals and their quantitative estimation were conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) technique. Polar groups such as –OH and COOH were detected to be the major proportion in inertinite whereas vitrinite exhibited mainly nonpolar groups of –O–, which indicate tendency of their surface charge. For the first time, atomic force microscopy (AFM) was utilized to investigate the surface topography and potential difference of macerals. Inertinite showed 0.42 V higher surface potential than vitrinite, which well fits with their charge polarity and movement during triboelectrostatic separation. However, the instability of surface potential difference on inertinite may leads to disorder in its charge polarity, which makes Cu as an alternative material because both macerals have great charge gap with Cu and they also have same charge polarity.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fuel.2018.06.109
DO - 10.1016/j.fuel.2018.06.109
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049346266
SN - 0016-2361
VL - 233
SP - 759
EP - 768
JO - Fuel
JF - Fuel
ER -