The co-combustion characteristic of textile dyeing sludge and coal

Experimental textile dyeing sludge came from a sewage treatment plant in Guangdong, and blended with Shanxi bituminous coal. The proximate analysis and elemental analysis on the sample were shown in Table 1. Sample was dried on oven at 105°C for 12 h, then the sample was crushed to pass through an 80 mesh (<178 um) sieves, after that the sample prepared in a drying vessel.