30: Trace Elements in Coal Science (1996)

Authors

  • Dalway John Swaine CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology, North Ryde, NSW, and School of Chemistry, University of Sydney

Abstract

Liversidge Research Lecture delivered before the Royal Society of New South Wales, 12th June, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of New South Wales from J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., 1996, 129, 139-148.

"Trace elements are relevant to several aspects of coal science. Five topics are dealt with in detail, namely, the occurrence of trace elements, boron as an indicator of marine influence, boiler deposits, fluorine in coal, and the deposition of trace elements from the atmosphere. There is an increasing interest in the fate of trace elements from the combustion of coal for power production, especially environmental aspects of trace elements from the atmosphere and from ash disposal areas. Several suggestions for future work are outlined."

Author Biography

Dalway John Swaine, CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology, North Ryde, NSW, and School of Chemistry, University of Sydney


Dalway John Swaine received his BSc and MSc from the University of Melbourne after working with the CSIR Lubricants and Bearings Section. With the assistance of scholarships, he obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 1952, and continued to work in Scotland until 1959, when he returned to the CSIRO in NSW. Since 1985, Swaine was Honorary Research Fellow of the CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology and Professorial Fellow of the University of Sydney. He sadly died in 2013, after this transcript was compiled.

 

For additional biographical information, photographic permissions, references and a list of honours, awards and publications, please see pages 2–4 of the transcript.

References

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ASTM, 1979. Standard test method for total fluorine in coal by the oxygen bomb combustion/ion selective electrode method. American Society for Testing and Materials, D3761-79, 4 pp.

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Branagan, D. and Holland, G., 1985 (Eds.). Ever Reaping Something New - a Science Centenary. University of Sydney, 1st edition, 256 pp.

Brown, H.R. and Swaine, D.J., 1964. Inorganic constituents of Australian coals. Journal of the Institute of Fuel, 37, 422-440.

Godbeer, W.C. and Swaine, D.J., 1987. Fluorine in Australian coals, Fuel, 66, 794-798.

Godbeer, W.C. and Swaine, D.J., 1995. The deposition of trace elements in the environs of a power station. In Environmental Aspects of Trace Elements in Coal, pp. 178-203 (D.J. Swaine and F. Goodarzi, Eds.). Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Godbeer, W.C., Swaine, D.J. and Goodarzi, F., 1994. Fluorine in Canadian coals. Fuel, 73, 1291-1293.

Goodarzi, F. and Swaine, D.J., 1994a. Paleoenvironmental and environmental implications of the boron content of coal. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin, 471, 76 pp.

Goodarzi, F. and Swaine, D.J., 1994b. The influence of geological factors on the concentration of boron in Australian and Canadian coals. Chemical Geology, 118, 301-318.

Le Fèvre, R.J.W., 1968. The establishment of chemistry within Australian science - contributions from New South Wales. In A Century of Scientific Progress, pp. 332-378, Royal Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 1968.

Swaine, D.J., 1962a. Boron in New South Wales coals. Australian Journal of Science, 25, 265-266.

Swaine, D.J., 1962b. The Trace-Element Content of Fertilizers. Commonwealth Bureau of Soils, Harpenden, 306 pp.

Swaine, D.J., 1971. Boron in coals of the Bowen Basin as an environmental indicator. Geological Survey of Queensland, Report 62, 41-48.

Swaine, D.J., 1977. Trace elements in coal. In Trace Substances in Environmental Health - XI, pp. 107-116. D.D. Hemphill (Ed.), University of Missouri, Columbia.

Swaine, D.J., 1989. Environmental aspects of trace elements in coal. Journal of Coal Quality, 8, 67-71.

Swaine, D.J., 1990. Trace Elements in Coal. Butterworths, London, 294 pp.

Swaine, D.J., 1992a. The organic association of elements in coals. Organic Geochemistry, 18, 259-261.

Swaine, D.J., 1992b. Guest editorial: Environmental aspects of trace elements in coal. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 14, 2.

Swaine, D.J., 1994. Trace elements in coal and their dispersal during combustion. Fuel Processing Technology, 39, 121-137.

Swaine, D.J., 1995. The formation, composition and utilisation of flyash. In Environmental Aspects of Trace Elements in Coal, pp. 204-220. D.J. Swaine and F. Goodarzi (Eds.) Kluwer, Dordrecht.

Swaine, D.J. and Goodarzi, F., 1995 (Eds.). Environmental Aspects of Trace Elements in Coal. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 324 pp.

Swaine, D.J. and Taylor, G.F., 1970. Arsenic in phosphatic boiler deposits. Journal of the Institute of Fuel, 43, 261.

Swaine, D.J., Godbeer, W.C. and Morgan, N.M., 1989. The deposition of trace elements from the atmosphere. In Trace Elements in New Zealand: Environmental, Human and Animal, pp. 1-10. R.G. McLaren, R.J. Haynes and G.P. Savage, (Eds.). New Zealand Trace Elements Group, Lincoln.

Portrait of Dalway John Swaine.

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