| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Woodhead Publishing series in energy |
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Woodhead Publishing in energy.
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| Contents |
Part I. Historical Development of UCG; 1. Early development and discoveries. -- 2. UCG development in the USSR. -- 3. UCG Program in the USA. -- 4. European UCG tests Part II. UCG Technology. -- 5. Process description and major methods of UCG. -- 6. UCG and gasification kinetics. -- 7. Well linking. -- 8. Environmental impact and groundwater. -- 9. The role of rock deformation in UCG. -- Part III. Modern UCG projects, scaling up and commercialization; 10. What makes a UCG technology commercial-ready? -- 11. UCG to products: Designs, efficiencies, economics. -- 12. Ergo Exergy: Majuba, Swan Hills. -- 13. Carbon Energy: Bloodwood Creek. -- 14. Linc Energy: Chinchilla. -- Part IV. Fire underground: prospective technologies; 15. Underground coal fires. -- 16. Soil remediation by underground fires. -- 17. UCG under sea bed. -- 18. Underground retorting and gasification of shale oils. -- 19. Advanced measurements and monitoring techniques |
| Summary |
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is carried out in unmined coal seams, using wells drilled from the surface and converting coal into synthesis gas. The gas can be used for power generation and synthesis of automotive fuels, fertilizers and other products. UCG offers financial, social, and environmental benefits over conventional coal extraction and utilization methods and may play a critical role in ensuring energy security in the future. Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion provides an overview of underground coal gasification technology, its current status and future directions. Comprehensive in approach, the book covers history, science, technology, hydrogeology, rock mechanics, environmental performance, economics, regulatory and commercial aspects of UCG projects. The first book on the subject in forty years, it is unique in analysing more than a century of global UCG developments by experts from Australia, Canada, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, the USA and Uzbekistan |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Coal gasification, Underground.
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Coal -- Combustion.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- General.
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Coal -- Combustion.
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Coal gasification, Underground.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blinderman, Michael S., editor
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Klimenko, Alexander Y., editor
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| ISBN |
9780081003244 |
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0081003242 |
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