Abstract:Combustion characteristics and kinetic parameters of four regional coal samples in O2/CO2 atmosphere were investigated by thermogravimetry(TG). The experiments were performed on low O2 volume fraction varying from 7.5% to 20% at a heating rate of 20 ℃·min-1. With Arrhenius and Coats Redfern equations, the kinetic parameters under different O2 volume fractions were calculated with the method of least squares linear regression. The results show that ignition temperature keeps constant and burn out temperature rises in lower O2 volume fraction. Activated energy, pre exponential factor and reaction degree all decrease in varying extent with the lower O2 volume fraction. There was compensation effect between activation energy and pre exponential factor, besides, the isokinetic temperature and reaction rate constant of four coal samples were obtained. When O2 volume fraction is lower than 12.5%, with reduction of O2 volume fraction, the reaction rate constant rises more and more mildly with the increasing of the temperature.