This commission is involved in the application of petrology to coal utilisation and mining. A major emphasis has been in relating the petrographic composition of coals to characteristics of metallurgical coke. However, other projects have involved the classification of liquefaction and combustion residues, reactive inertinite and the development of fully automated microscope systems for characterising coals.

CHAIR

Dr. Isabel Suárez-Ruiz
Instituto Nacional del Carbón, CSIC
Apartado 73, Francisco Pintado Fe 26
33080 Oviedo
SPAIN
Tel.:    +34 98 511 9090
Fax:    +34 98 529 7662
E-mail:    isruiz_(at)_incar.csic.es

SECRETARY

Dr. Magdalena Misz-Kennan
University of Silesia
Faculty of Earth Sciences
ul. Bedzinska 60
41-200 Sosnowiec
POLAND
Tel.: +48-32-291 36 89 546
Fax: +48-32-291 5865
Email:magdalena.misz@us.edu.pl

Working Groups

• Coke Petrography
  Convenor: Heike Eickhoff 
• Combustion
  Convenors Edward Lester
• Coal Blends
• Coal Blends Accreditation Program
  Convenor: Isabel Suarez Ruiz
• Automation
  Convenor: David Pearson
• Inertinite in Combustion
  Convenor: Angeles G?mez Borrego
• A New Approach to Study the Coal Cleat System by Image Analysis (proposal for new WG)
  Convenor: Cristina Rodrigues
• Structural Order
  Convenor: no convenor
• Identification and petrographic classification of components in Fly Ashes
  Convenors: Isabel Suarez Ruiz, Bruno Valentim