Transbaikal State University, Chita, Russia:

P. B. Avdeev, Dean of the Mining Faculty, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences
G. P. Sidorova, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences
A. A. Yakimov, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, yaa76@yandex.ru

The most important part of the system of technical regulation is standardization. New approaches to standardization in the framework of the technical regulation system suggest to create conditions at which high-quality and competitive national products will enter the market. The product quality, as one of the main factors of competitiveness, is understood as a set of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of product properties. Obligatory rate setting and governmental control of production safety requirements are regulated by special normative legal documents that are technical regulations. Coal quality evaluation is a challenge as coals feature exclusive heterogeneity of composition and properties. Quality indicators characterizing safety of coal production are regulated by the currently effective Russian state standard GOST R 515912000 Lignite, Black Coal, Anthracite. General Technical Requirements. This standard specifies quality indicators that characterize safety of coal only in terms of ash content, as well as fractions of total mass of sulfur, chlorine and arsenic. Now, much attention is paid to radiation safety of coal production. Coal-based fuel power engineering is assumed by ecologists one of the largest sources of environmental pollution with radionuclides, but coal and coal products are regulated neither by the above state standards nor by the radiation safety standards (NRB–99/2009). Lack of regulating documents results in considerable difficulties in coal radiation quality control that conditions requirements for the content of radionuclides in burning coals. The content of natural radionuclides (NRN) in produced coal is uncontrolled, and coals with high content of NRN is supplied to consumers, which leads to an additional load on the environment due to emissions of radioactive aerosols and owing to formation of ash with the elevated content of radioactive elements during coal combustion.

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