Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

["Steven Holding" <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

Coal by its nature is organic and just like the bailed up corn stocks in the fall or raked up leaves will build up organic heat given enough heat and you have FIRE

I use to pick up bagged leaves in the fall and run them thru shredder.  The ground leaves would compost out in about a month.  Not unlike PRB Coal.  only I turned the piles weekly to keep the heat in check.  That is the main reason for the earth movers at power plants to turn the coal piles and stop the possible fires.

The Illinoiss State Geological Survey put out bulletins on coal I have 207, 227, 274 and 313 dealing with coal. 

Most coal on Steam Railroads was moved to the coal chutes and consummed before fire.  The Illinois Traction(later Terminal) had two large pit areas with concrete linings to store coal for powerhouse use.  The pits would be flooded so no fire was possible.

Steve in SC

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 2:49:50 PM EST, mikethomasson24 <mthomasson@austin.rr.com> wrote:

The reason that lignite, a lower grade of coal, is used almost exclusively in mine -mouth power plants is that it will spontaneous combust if transported more than a few miles in an open rail car or truck. Some logging railroads used it for awhile, but it was not suitable even for that limited application. 

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From: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: 01/01/2019 1:20 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

January 1, 2019

Tom - Spontaneous combustion!  Happy New Year - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 1/1/2019 1:09:10 PM Central Standard Time, thomas_quimby=yahoo.com@groups.io writes:

What caused these fires?  Keep in mind I deleted a few of these messages without reading them so if this was already answered I missed it.  Thank you

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 6:15:59 AM PST, Mike Decker <mdecker@gwtc.net> wrote:

While I was working, I saw several cars of PRB coal siting in sidings smoking away.  Sometimes, the fire would heat up the car side enough that you could see the discoloration.

Mike

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