Publication detail

Lignite as a chemical raw material

PEKAŘ, M., KALOČ, M., KLUČÁKOVÁ, M.

Original Title

Lignite as a chemical raw material

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Potential applications of lignite in non-energetical areas are briefly reviewed, including agrochemistry, biotechnology, sorbent technologies, humic substances production, and microbial transformation. Examples of experimental results from our own research on the South-Moravian lignite are presented – sorption properties of natural lignite, their improvement by thermal activation, results from laboratory and field tests on lignite effect on growing several plants, potential of the South-Moravian lignite as a source of humic substances and their properties, particularly sorption. It is shown that lignite should not be viewed as a fuel of rather low quality and combusted in power plants but should be considered as a valuable raw material for chemical industry to make products with applications in broad areas of human life and activities. Lignite is a potential supply of compounds that can be used for low-scale production of fine chemicals, which could be a field suitable for Czech producers because of very limited local supplies of mineral resources and space for large-scale production.

Keywords

humic substances, lignite, non-energetical applications

Authors

PEKAŘ, M., KALOČ, M., KLUČÁKOVÁ, M.

RIV year

2004

Released

1. 1. 2003

Publisher

VSB-TU Ostrava

Location

Ostrava

ISBN

80-248-0246-5

Book

Mineral raw materials and mining activity of the 21st century

Edition

Part I

Pages from

131

Pages to

136

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT9507,
  author="Miloslav {Pekař} and Miroslav {Kaloč} and Martina {Klučáková}",
  title="Lignite as a chemical raw material",
  booktitle="Mineral raw materials and mining activity of the 21st century",
  year="2003",
  series="Part I",
  pages="6",
  publisher="VSB-TU Ostrava",
  address="Ostrava",
  isbn="80-248-0246-5"
}