Chemical characterization of Hungarian brown coals by curie-point pyrolysis-low-energy electron impact mass spectrometry and multivariate analysis and by curie-point pyrolysis-gas chromatography-photoionization mass spectrometry
Ziegelhoeffer A.; De Jong J.W.; Ferrari R.; Turi Nagy L.
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 11: 125-147
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0165-2370
DOI: 10.1016/0165-2370(87)85024-6
Accession: 061915376
A series of Hungarian Miocene brown coals were analysed by pyrolysis-low-energy electron impact mass spectrometry and discriminant analysis. Correlation patterns in the mass peaks of these brown coals coincided with the geothermal history determined from the reflectivity of the macerals. Coal rank and the first discriminant function had a correlation coefficient of 0.96. Discriminant analysis also classified the coals according to their depositional environment.