Underground coal gasification and combustion /

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 environ...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Blinderman, Michael S.; Klimenko, Alexander Y.
Published: Woodhead Publishing,
Publisher Address: Duxford, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Woodhead Publishing series in energy
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Online Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081003138
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.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN: 9780081003244
0081003242
Index Number: TP759
CLC: TQ546
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.