The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Coal Supply Chains, Volume One, Second Edition presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest technology and practices. The book provides authoritative insights into a variety of case studies to help readers identify the most appropriate technologies to take coal, and its associated by-products, into an essential cleaner environment that includes integrated energy systems. The book's expertise highlights the future direction of coal use towards more efficient and clean usage. Key emerging topics such as hybrid technologies, integrated power and chemical processes, and advanced CO2 abatement strategies are explored, with a focus on economic and sustainable values.
In addition, the book includes two brand new chapters on the optimization of mine development and the impacts of tailings treatment. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, the book is a comprehensive and invaluable resource for professionals in the coal mining, preparation and utilization industry, those in the power sector, including plant operators and engineers, and researchers and academics interested in this field.
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Table of Contents
Part I
1. Coal formation
2. Coal petrography
3. Coal resources and reserves
4. Coal sampling
5. Coal analysis
6. Aspects of surface chemistry of coal and its characterization in fine coal processing
7. Overview of Industrial Utilization of coal
Part II
8. Advances in coal mining technology
9. Underground coal gasification
10. Coal Preparation fundamentals
11. Coal comminution and sizing
12. Cleaning of coarse and small coal
13. Cleaning of fine and ultrafine coal
14. Solid-liquid separation technologies for coal
15. Treatment of coal tailings
16. Economic factors affecting coal preparation plant design worldwide
Part III
17. Optimization, simulation and control of coal preparation plants
18. Supply chain management for bulk materials in the coal industry
19. Coal conveying
20. Coal handling aling the supply chain
21. Transportation by rail and sea in the coal industry