Coal Petrography
Coal Petrography Laboratory
CMPDI's Coal Petrography Laboratory is one of the leading laboratories of India to undertake the characterization of coal / lignite, source rock evaluation for hydrocarbon generation at the exploration stage, washery product, and quality control of Indian/imported coal. Coal Petrography study is essentially microscopic study of coal (maceral composition, vitrinite reflectance & v type distribution) which plays an important role for blending of coal in coke making and charaterisation of coking and non-coking coal for its end use.
The Coal Petrography Laboratory from time to time has upgraded itself with the induction of state of art automatic equipment for rapid/detail determination of both organic and inorganic constituent of coal. It is only laboratory in India to achieve accreditation of ICCP (International Committee for Coal Petrography).
With its highly trained and dedicated manpower and sophisticated/imported equipment, the Laboratory is in a position to undertake following analysis:
- Coal characterization for coal exploration, washery product control, blend studies for coking as well as for non-coking coals
- Maceral Analysis
- Vitrinite Reflectance %
- V Type Distribution
- Minerals in Coal
- Coke Petrology
- Pore Structure
- Pore Size & Pore Size Distribution
- Mosaic Size
- Fracture Characteristics
- Oil and Gas Exploration
- Vitrinite Reflectance
- Maceral Analysis, Liptinite (Exinite) Fluorescence
- Maturation Potential
- Thermal History Studies
- Oil Shales
- Maceral Analysis
- Liptinite (Exinite) Fluorescence
- Vitrinite Reflectance
- Mineralogical Phase Analysis
- Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Minerals and Phases through X-Ray Diffractometer
- Shape, size of Minerals in Coal/Metal/Rock and Cleat Study of Coal for CBM Exploration is being carried out by SEM