Research Article

Total Scanning Fluorescence Characteristics of Coals and Implication to Coal Rank Evaluation

Table 1

Laboratory procedure to clean coal for TSF analysis.

DisaggregationSample core of cuttings, crushed to powder, dry-sieved to obtain grains with a 1000 to 63  𝜇 m size distribution

DCM (dichloromethane)10-minute ultrasound bath in 20 mL HPLC grade DCM
DCM (dichloromethane)1-week digestion at room temperature in DCM