Beneficiation of thermal coal in India is a relatively new development. For the year 2006, India produced 380 million metric tons of thermal coal, of which only 17 million metric tons were beneficiated coals. One potentially attractive method for upgrading India's coal feed stocks is the air table dry deshaling technology. Dry deshaling offers significant advantages over wet cleaning operations, including reduced surface moisture, enhanced heating value, elimination of processing water and waste slurries, and reduced transportation of large amounts of ash-forming minerals. To evaluate this...