
Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion
Description
Key Features
- Provides researchers, engineers, industry, educators and regulators with an authoritative overview of science and practical applications of underground coal gasification technologies
- Offers insight into efficiency, environmental performance, costs, permitting issues and commercial aspects of UCG projects
- Written by scientists and practitioners of UCG technology sharing hands-on experience of step-by-step UCG implementation
Readership
Researchers, engineers, executives, regulators, geoscientists, students, environmentalists and general public interested in energy security, coal mining, gasification technologies, clean coal options, alternative mining methods, and protection of groundwater. Investment professionals with an interest in energy, power generation and petrochemicals. Students of engineering, hydrogeology, rock mechanics and geology departments.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion
- Early development and discoveries in underground coal gasification
- History of UCG Development in the USSR
- Underground Coal Gasification Research and Development in the United States
- European underground coal gasification (UCG) tests
- The Development of UCG in Australia
- Gasification kinetics
- The Role of Groundwater as an Important Component in Underground Coal Gasification
- The Effects of Rock Deformation in Underground Coal Gasification
- Underground coal gasification modelling and analysis
- Environmental Performance of Underground Coal Gasification
- What Makes a UCG Technology Ready for Commercial Application?
- Underground Coal Gasification to Products: Designs, Efficiencies, Economics
- Majuba Underground Coal Gasification Project
- UCG Commercialisation and the Cougar Energy Project at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
- Underground Gasification of Oil Shale
- Underground coal fires
- Soil remediation by underground fires
- Advanced underground measurement and monitoring techniques
Product details
- No. of pages: 662
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: November 28, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081003138
- eBook ISBN: 9780081003244
About the Editors
Michael Blinderman
Affiliations and Expertise
Alexander Klimenko
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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JasonGerhard Wed Jun 13 2018
Eye opener
This book is truly an eye opener to the sustainable use of combustion. A must read for post-graduate students in energy, combustion and environmental science.