Study on the Oxidation and Spontaneous Combustion Characteristics of Jurassic Coal in North Shaanxi

Proximate and ultimate analysis, X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and thermal analysis experiments were carried out to study the spontaneous combustion oxidation based characteristic of six Jurassic coal samples from North Shaanxi in West China and three Permo-carboniferous coal samples from East China. The results showed that the characteristic of north Shaanxi Jurassic coal was low ash, low sulfur, high volatile, high oxygen content and amorphous structure. More type and quantity of reactive functional groups existed in the original Jurassic coal, such as carboxyl, methyl, methylene and ether oxygen. And the characteristic temperatures of north Shaanxi Jurassic coal sample in the oxidation and spontaneous combustion process was lower than other coal samples, due to the participation in the reaction with oxygen of the more active functional groups.