Article: Studies from Tohoku University have provided new information about fuel research.

According to a study from Sendai, Japan, "The fate of coal-N in the fixed-bed pyrolysis of 25 coals,with 62-81 wt % (daf) C has been studied with a quartz reactor at 1000 degrees C under ambient pressure to examine the effects of metal cations present naturally in these coals on the partitioning of coal-N into N-2, NH3, HCN, tar-N, and char-N. Nitrogen mass balances for all runs fall within the reasonable range of 100 +/- 5%, and N-2 is the predominant product for all of the coals."

"As the N-2 yield increases, the sum of NH3, HCN, and tar-N is unchanged significantly, whereas the char-N yield decreases almost linearly, showing that most of N-2 originates from ...

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