Coal Production and Processing Technology

Coal Production and Processing Technology provides uniquely comprehensive coverage of the latest coal technologies used in everything from mining to greenhouse gas mitigation. Featuring contributions from experts in industry and academia, this book: Discusses coal geology, characterization, beneficiation, combustion, coking, gasification, and liquefaction Explores coalbed methane drilling, excavatability, surface production, strata control, and longwall production Tackles financial, safety, and environmental issues, including coal company valuations, mine emergency preparedness, and carbon management Capturing state-of-the-art knowledge from different facets of the coal chain, Coal Production and Processing Technology offers a holistic view of today’s coal industry as well as a look at future trends.

COAL RESERVES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS Nature and Chemistry of Coal and Its ProductsBinoy K. Saikia, Ananya Saikia, and Bimala P. Baruah Statistical Data on Worldwide Coal Reserves, Production, Consumption, and Future DemandMohan S. Rana and Faisal S. AlHumaidan Geochemistry of Coal: Occurrences and Environmental Impacts of Trace ElementsYa. E. Yudovich and M. P. Ketris Coal Reservoir CharacterizationZhongwei Chen, Tianhang Bai, and Zhejun Pan COAL MINING AND PRODUCTION Drilling and Blasting in Coal MiningCelal Karpuz and Hakan Basarir Excavatability of Surface Coal Measure RocksCelal Karpuz and Hakan Basarir Surface Coal Production Methods and EquipmentNuray Demirel and Celal Karpuz Strata Control for Underground Coal MinesCelal Karpuz and Hakan Basarir Longwall Production with SubsidenceC. Okay Aksoy and Halil Köse Coalbed MethaneGouthami Senthamaraikkannan and Vinay Prasad Health and Safety Issues in Coal MiningNuray Demirel and Celal Karpuz COAL CONVERSION PROCESSES Coal BeneficiationT. Gouri Charan Coal Combustion for Power ProductionHisao Makino and Kenji Tanno Coal GasificationMamoru Kaiho and Yoichi Kodera Coal Liquefaction and ProcessingArno de Klerk Coal to Metallurgical CokeVinod K. Saxena and Hari P. Tiwari Coal-Based Products and Their UsesXian-Yong Wei, Zhi-Min Zong, Xing Fan, and Zhan-Ku Li Disposal and Utilization of Coal Combustion, Gasification, and Coking ResiduesL. Reijnders Environmental Issues in Coal Utilization and Mitigation MeasuresDeepak Pudasainee and Rajender Gupta GLOBAL ISSUES AND TRENDS Carbon Management in the Coal IndustryAli Elkamel, Zarook Shareefdeen, and Raymond Yeung Carbon Sequestration in Coal-Fired Combustion/Gasification ProcessesRajender Gupta, Deepak Pudasainee, and Bill Gunter Coal Company Valuation, Production, and ReservesMark J. Kaiser Future Trends in Coal TechnologyArno de Klerk

M. R. Riazi (www.riazim.com) is a professor and the chairman of chemical engineering at Kuwait University. He earned his M.Sc and Ph.D from Pennsylvania State University, where he also served as an assistant professor of chemical engineering. He has been a visiting scholar/faculty member at various universities in the US, Canada, Norway, and Middle East. Widely published, highly decorated, and a popular invited speaker/consultant, Dr. Riazi is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of IJOGCT (London, UK) and an editor of the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He is an AIChE fellow and received a Pi Epsilon Tau National Petroleum Engineering Honor Society diploma of honor. Rajender Gupta is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta. He has been involved in coal research from beneficiation to carbon capture for more than 35 years. He graduated in 1972 from IIT Kharagpur and earned his Ph.D from the University of Newcastle. Dr. Gupta led several research projects at the Cooperative Research Centres for Coal at the University of Newcastle. He currently leads coal research at the Canadian Centre of Clean Coal Carbon and Mineral Processing at the University of Alberta. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences.