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Coal Cleaning Operations: The Question of Near Gravity Material

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Near Gravity Material (NGM) is classically and by BIS defined as the percentage of material occurring within a range of ±0.1 of the relative density at which separation takes place in coal cleaning operations. NGM is said to affect the separation performance of coal cleaning equipment and is believed to be the primary reason or at least an important reason for misplacement between the products. Therefore, coal producers, coal consumers and the technology providers in India are concerned about the effect of NGM on coal cleaning operations. It is true that Indian coal is one of the most difficult to “wash”. The question is, whether this difficulty to “wash” is getting translated or not into a kind of obsession with NGM while keeping other factors apparently out of consideration?

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First author gratefully acknowledges the intellectual input received from Dr Arun Kumar Majumder, IIT Kharagpur and Atul Bhatnagar, Tata Steel in writing this paper.

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  1. Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 826004, India

    Sumantra Bhattacharya, Abhishek Maheshwari & Manishankar Panda

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Bhattacharya, S., Maheshwari, A. & Panda, M. Coal Cleaning Operations: The Question of Near Gravity Material. Trans Indian Inst Met 69, 157–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-015-0737-z

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