Use of Thermoanalytic Methods in the Evaluation of Combusted Materials

The paper describes possibilities of using thermoanalytic methods for the evaluation and comparison of materials designed for a direct combustion. Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were both used in the evaluation. The paper includes a description of methods of data processing from analyses for the purposes of comparison of used materials regarding their heating values. The following materials were analysed in the experiments: wooden coal of objectional grain size, fly ash from heating plant exhaust funnels, dendromass waste: spruce sawdust, micro-briquettes of spruce sawdust and fly-ash combined

Acoustic and physiological effects of the surroundings in rock cutting process

A noise effect arising in the rock cutting process is gaining a large attention as to the identification and optimization of the cuttingprocess. The sense experience acquired during the experiments in the process of rotary rock drilling related to the determination of rock typeor to the optimal drilling regime determination is formed due to sense perception, mainly hearing, and its further evaluation by the humanbrain from the information exempted from the environment

Assessment of abrasiveness for research of rock cutting

Rock abrasiveness is ability of rock to wear down the working tool during the mutual interaction between the working indentorand the rock in the mechanical rock cutting process. The cutting indentor is worn down during the interaction, which changes itsgeometric dimensions causing the enlargement of a contact area between the tool and the rock surface. The changes in these dimensionsconsequently alter the rate of advance of the drilling machine and the specific cutting energy. We have determined the abrasivenessaccording to the norm ON 44 1121 (1982) on the testing device constructed at the Institute of Geotechnics SAS