COAL SERVICES

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Commodities trading companies, importers, exporters, miners are facing one priority above all: to ensure their projects’ commercial, technical, and operational viability. They must also ensure shipment quality. For commodities traders, importers, exporters, miners and supply chain managers, certainty in the value of commercial settlements is a key concern. Across the entire life cycle, from early-stage exploration through trading to smelting and recycling, companies seek to minimize risk while attaining high industry and international standards.

SOLUTION

Bureau Veritas minimizes risk for clients by providing a broad range of essential inspection and testing services throughout the value chain to make sure the quality and quantity of the cargo that they produce, import and export meeting with their requirements.

Coal is being used at coal-fired power plants across the world. Basically, there are two type of coal: thermal and metallurgical. Thermal coal is mainly consumed in coal-fired power plants, cement plants, and other factories which are using boilers, while metallurgical coal is only being used to producing steel in major steel mills globally.

What can BV offer?

Working from the world’s major ports and mining and refining locations, our team of qualified inspectors and laboratory analysts will accurately and swiftly determine the physical properties of materials through supervision of weighing (Including draft survey), sampling, sample preparation and analysis, pre-shipment inspection, loading and discharging inspection.

- Sampling at site or in the warehouse

- Pre-shipment inspection

- Sampling, sample preparation and analysis

- Loading and discharging supervision

- Draft survey

- Hold inspection

- Issuing certificate of weight, certificate of sampling and analysis, certificate of hold cleanliness, and draft survey report.

OUR APPROACH

Coal testing methods:

- Total moisture

- Inherent moisture

- Ash

- Volatile matter

- Total sulphur

- Fixed carbon

- Gross calorific value

- Net calorific value

- HGI.

- Size

- Ash fusion temperature

- Ultimate analysis

- Ash analysis