“…The accurate measurement of particle size distribution (PSD) of coal samples is significant to both scientific research and engineering, such as coal combustion [1][2][3][4][5], coal chemical industry [6][7][8][9], adsorption and desorption [10][11][12], and coal and gas outburst [13,14]. There are more than one hundred methods and instruments to measure particle size distribution, including sieving, settling velocity measurements, laser diffraction (LD), photon correlation spectroscopy, sound spectrum method, dynamic light scattering method, scanning electron microscope, and X-ray diffraction [15][16][17][18][19][20]. Of these methods, sieving and LD particle analyzers are widely used for measuring general coal particles (>10 μm) because of their high accuracy, simple operation, fast speed, and high repeatability.…”