Spontaneous combustion of subsurface coal is an extremely complicated chemical and physical changing process. In order to quantitatively understand the development of underground coal fires, the heat transfer processes coupled with multi-stage oxidation of coal are investigated by experimental and numerical methods in this paper. With controlled temperature and under lean oxygen conditions, the...

Thermal energy from groundwater in abandoned, flooded, coal mines has the potential to make a significant contribution decarbonization of heat and net-zero carbon emissions. In Glasgow, UK, subsurface observatory been constructed for mine water storage research. We synthesize geological resource findings 4 year period borehole planning, drilling, logging testing. The heterogeneous bedrock is ty...

The scale planning of the coal logistics center plays an important role in coal logistics network planning. Based on the coal logistics network planning, this paper analyses the coalmine production capacity, transportation capacity, coal demand and other factors, then brings forward the demand trend coefficient on that basis. Further, the authors construct a scale-planning model for the coal lo...

Coal is a prime energy source in India and will continue to play its role for coming several decades. However, our indigenous coal suffers from high ash content and present coal based conventional power generation technologies have several drawbacks such as, lower efficiency, environmental loading and damages thereof. Herein the importance of gasification lies because coal gasification is a mea...

The Clean Air Act of 1990 initiated a tradable permit program for emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plants. One effect of this policy was a large increase in the consumption of low-sulfur bituminous coal by coal-fired power plants. However, lowsulfur bituminous coal is also the ideal coking coal for steel production. The analysis presented here will attempt to determine how the ...

Coal gangue is residual abandoned coal, produced after the pre-processing steps of mining. It is an amalgam of several unwanted substances. It is important to separate coal gangue from lump coal before fed to thermal power plants. In this paper, investigation on the fundamental characteristics of coal images and gangue images with digital image processing technology is proposed. The system dete...

The Olang area is a part of Gheshlagh-Olang synclinal, which is a member of eastern Alborz coal basin and is situated at a distance of70 km northeast of Shahroud city. Coal-bearing strata of this region are part of the Shemshak group (Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic).Samples from the 9 coal seams of the Olang coal deposits were collected and ashed. The aim of this study is to determine theoccu...

Projections of future climate change depend upon future anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In preparation for its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change implemented a new approach to generating emissions scenarios, called ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCPs), which replace the scenarios in the ‘Special Report on Emissions Scenarios’ (SRES). The RCP...

We explore the operations, balancing requirements, and costs of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council power system under a stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction target. We include sensitivities for technology costs and availability, fuel prices and emissions, and demand profile. Meeting an emissions target of 85% below 1990 levels is feasible across a range of assumptions, but the ...