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The coal industry, and society's use of coal, is in a time of transition in many parts of the world.
Rethinking Coal: Chemicals and Carbon-Based Materials in the 21st Century provides a discussion of the nature and properties of coal, how coal is currently used, environmental forces driving for change in the use of coal, and how coal could be used in cleaner, greener ways in the future.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classification
- 3 Coalification
- 4 Structure
- 5 Minerals
- 6 Mining
- 7 Preparation
- 8 Electricity
- 9 Environment
- 10 Coke
- 11 Gasification
- 12 Synthesis
- 13 Liquefaction
- 14 Competition
- 15 Climate
- 16 Chemicals
- 17 Carbons
- 18 W(h)ither?
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Bibliographic Essay
About the author
Harold Schobert has been a Professor of Fuel Science at Penn State University for 25 years, also at times being chair of the Fuel Science academic program and director of the EMS Energy Institute. He has been a visiting professor at North-West University in South Africa, as well as universities in Japan and Turkey. Previously, while at the University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center, Schobert occasionally taught a chemical engineering course in coal technology. His teaching career began as a temporary instructor in the chemistry department at Iowa State University.
Summary
The coal industry, and society's use of coal, is in a time of transition in many parts of the world. Rethinking Coal: Chemicals and Carbon-Based Materials in the 21st Century provides a discussion of the nature and properties of coal, how coal is currently used, environmental forces driving for change in the use of coal, and how coal could be used in cleaner, greener ways in the future.
