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The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Production

  • 1st Edition - October 31, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Dave Osborne
  • Language: English

Coal is an important fossil fuel resource for many nations due to its large remaining resources, relatively low processing cost and potential high energy intensity. Certain issues… Read more

Description

Coal is an important fossil fuel resource for many nations due to its large remaining resources, relatively low processing cost and potential high energy intensity. Certain issues surround its utilisation, however, including emissions of pollutants and growing concern about climate change. The two volumes of The coal handbook present a systematic and comprehensive review of coal production and utilisation in industrial applications, from power plants to steel and iron making, with emphasis on cleaner production. Volume 1 Coal production opens with chapters on coal characterisation. Following sections address important coal extraction and preparation technologies and the coal supply chain. After an introductory section exploring the social and economic value of coal and emissions from coal utilisation, Volume 2 concentrates on global coal production and coal use in industry.

Key features

  • Reviews the coal production supply chain from analysis to extraction and distribution
  • Explores coal characterisation, formation, petrography, reserves, sampling and analysis
  • Examines coal extraction and preparation and highlights advances in coal mining technology, underground coal gas extraction, coal sizing, comminution and cleaning, and solid-liquid separation technologies

Readership

Experts, engineers and managers in research institutes for mining, metallurgy and materials science, steel industry, mining companies and steel plant building companies; University students and academics in the fields of metallurgy and materials engineering, mining, and environmental management and recycling

Table of contents

VOLUME 1:
Part I: Introduction and coal characterization

Chapter 1: Industrial uses of coal

Chapter 2: Coal formation

Chapter 3: Coal petrography

Chapter 4: Coal resources and reserves

Chapter 5: Coal sampling

Chapter 6: Coal analysis

Part II: Coal extraction and preparation

Chapter 7: Advances in coal mining technology

Chapter 8: Underground coal gasification

Chapter 9: Coal comminution and sizing

Chapter 10: Cleaning of coarse and small coal

Chapter 11: Cleaning of fine and ultrafine coal

Chapter 12: Surface chemistry fundamentals in fine coal processing

Chapter 13: Solid–liquid separation technologies for coal

Chapter 14: Economic factors affecting coal preparation: plant design worldwide and case studies illustrating economic impact

Chapter 15: Post-treatment of coal

Chapter 16: Treatment of coal tailings

Chapter 17: Optimization, simulation and control of coal preparation plants

Part III: Coal supply chain

Chapter 18: Supply chain management for bulk materials in the coal industry

Chapter 19: Coal conveying

Chapter 20: Coal handling along the supply chain

Chapter 21: Transportation by rail and sea in the coal industry

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 31, 2014
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Dave Osborne

Dave Osborne is a coal technology specialist with global experience in coal preparation, quality assurance and technical marketing through direct involvement in all facets of the subject area. He is internationally renowned and actively involved in international professional institutions and organisations. Dave’s experience includes Head of Coal Technology for Anglo American Coal and Group Manager of Coal Technology for Xstrata Coal. Dave has a Bachelor of Mining Engineering and PhD in Applied Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Dave also earned a postgraduate certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Pennsylvania State University.
Affiliations and expertise
Industry Advisor, Somerset International Australia Pty Ltd, Brisbane Qld, Australia