@ARTICLE{Kosowska-Golachowska_Monika_Determination_2014, author={Kosowska-Golachowska, Monika and Gajewski, Władysław and Musiał, Tomasz}, number={No 3 September}, journal={Archives of Thermodynamics}, pages={3-16}, howpublished={online}, year={2014}, publisher={The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences}, abstract={In this study, a new laser flash system was proposed for the determination of the thermal conductivity of brown coal, hard coal and anthracite. The main objective of the investigation was to determine the effect of coal rank, composition, physical structure and temperature on thermal conductivity. The solid fuels tested were medium conductors of heat whose determined thermal conductivities were in the range of 0.09 to 0.23 W/(m K) at room temperature. The thermal conductivity of the solid fuels tested typically increased with the rank of coal and the measurement temperature. The results of this study show that the physical structure of solid fuels and temperature have a dominant effect on the fuels' thermal conductivity.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Determination of the effective thermal conductivity of solid fuels by the laser flash method}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/94561/PDF/01_paper.pdf}, doi={10.2478/aoter-2014-0018}, keywords={effective thermal conductivity, effective thermal diffusivity, specific heat, laser flash method, hard coal, brown coal anthracite}, }