“…In accordance with the existing conceptions [1], during natural coalification, which generates fuel chemical potential, gaseous and liquid products of metamorphism leave the "reaction zone", which is followed by the decrease of fixed residue mass and alteration of its elemental composition (mass contents of carbon ( q C ), hydrogen (q H ), oxygen (q O ), nitrogen (q N ), and sulphur (q S )) as a result of different reactions rates of the mentioned elements.…”