“…(25) exhibits up-convex, power-decreasing type, it can be concluded that Fixed carbon increases with the increase of coal rank, and at low metamorphic stage, Fixed carbon content increases greatly. Figure 8 shows that with the increase of coal rank, the fixed carbon content exists the upper and lower curves Chang et al 2006;Qin et al 2007;Chang et al 2008;Hao et al 2012;Zheng 2012;Gao 2012;Jiang et al 2012;Lin et al 2013;Xiao et al 2016)-268, English, (Mahajan and Walker 1971;Joubert et al 1973;Yalçin and Durucan 1991;DeGance et al 1993;Chaback et al 1996;Nodzeński 1998;Hildenbrand et al 2006;Faiz et al 2007a, b;Yu et al 2008a, b, c;Gensterblum et al 2010;Taraba 2011;Wang 2012)-297) expressed in the following equations:Fc ad;max ¼ 92:3433À 88:918 expðÀ1:7628R o;max Þ and Fc ad;min ¼ 73:01726À 273:61127 expðÀ0:9814R o;max Þ, The corresponding average curve is as follow: Fc ad;avr ¼ 82:57758 À 162:60685 expðÀ1:03532R o;max Þ,besides, The ranges of fixed carbon content in subbituminous coal are from 2% to 56%, in low volatile bituminous coal are from 18% to 70%, in mid volatile bituminous coal are from 18% to 85%, in high volatile bituminous coal are from 21% to 92%, in anthracite are from 50% to 95%.…”