Anthracite vs Bituminous coal

This illustrates the difference between the two types of coal and how they burn. This is a single chunk of Bituminous coal on a bed of Anthracite. Where the Anthracite burns with very little flame due to the high percentage of carbon and low volatile content, the Bituminous is more like a sponge soaked in oil. I found the chunk of Bituminous alongside the railroad tracks - lost many, many years ago when steam trains used to run. Now there are not even any rails left and it has been turned into a rail-trail recreational path.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• coal
• anthracite
• butuminous
• burn
• fire
• heat
• smoke
• volatile
• carbon
• stove

[djsee4]

i was led to this video by experimental road surfacing and let me just tell you i personally trespassed all over the heart of PA exactly where the f'in roads are with all the signs posted everywhere and here's the juicy part: i threw a hand grenade my friend get me right on the f'in road and it didn't f'in burn.

[kb1gni]

@djsee4 Again, in English this time, please?

[djsee4]

@kb1gni All I'm sayin is when I pour out some liquor to my homies on the road I don't want to poison my firends in H-E double hockey sticks. So burn whatever you thinki smells better but my homies in hell ain't gotta have this!!!!

[kb1gni]

@djsee4  Ummm... alrighty, then.

[lilmrbassoon]

does the anthracite coal come in small bits and large chunks? because my cousin had a coal fireplace and there wasnt a flat surface to put the little bits of coal in. i wish i had that fireplace in my room. actually, i wish i had the whole house. i loved it.

[kb1gni]

@lilmrbassoon Anthracite comes in a range of different sizes, from pieces the size of a grain of rice to be used in automatic feed "stoker" stoves all the way up to "stove" sized coal which is bigger than a potato. To burn coal in a fireplace you'd need a grate so the air can get under the coal.

[WVlandnwater]

Pocahontas seam has the highest btu of all coal

[jjs777fzr]

@jordi0508 Actually no - eastern bit coal tends to have higher btu content than hard coal - where a significant portion of the btu extracted from burning bit coal is from the volatile gases.

[djsee4]

And then just for kicks I'll ask you who in the HELL burns coal to heat their cabode when I'm from the frozen tundra and our insurance became unaffordfable when we like our wood burning stove???

[jordi0508]

Bituminous is basically JUNK coal due to is LOW carbon content. Anthracite coal is of such HIGH carbon content that the BTU's per ton are off the wall!!!!! the Highest carbon content in the world is in PA and in fact in Jim Thorpe PA sets a chunk of coal with the highest carbon content ever found on this planet. The higher the carbon the higher the BTU output. Basically its the same as what bituminous coal was a few million years ago....