Question

What are the importance of bituminous and lignite? (5 marks)

Answer 1

Answer: Bituminous is hard coal and used commercially for heating and in thermal plant.

Lignite is soft and is not used less.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Burning bituminous coal at higher temperatures reduces its carbon monoxide emissions. Therefore, large combustion units and well-maintained ones generally have lower pollution output. Bituminous coal has slagging and agglomerating characteristics

Lignite is the most important domestic energy source and dominated electricity production in Turkey for many years. Recently, new lignite coal reserves have been explored and are thought to contain 15.6 billion tons, which would constitute about 7.1% of the total world's lignite reserves.