- European Coal Geology and Technology
Coal can not be ignored even today. Even thought we are coming up with different alternate energy sources, it is obvious that coal will keep a strong place in the energy sector for a long time. The book by R. Gayer captures the role of coal mining in the European countries. List price of the book is $200.00. Save 20% when you purchase online at only $160.00.
Book Synopsis from the publisher:
Despite the decline in the coal mining industry across Europe during the last decade, coal continues to supply a major part of the growing energy requirements, particularly in the developing countries. During this period there has been a shift in coal extraction techniques from deep underground mines to open pits, reflecting cheaper production costs in a market economy. It seems probable that the European coal industry is entering a period of stability. However, the change to opencast mining has highlighted environmental issues and the need to solve these problems. The book presents 39 papers written by coal scientists in the forefront of European coal research. The papers cover a wide spectrum of coal geology and technology, with sections on regional coal reserves, coal basin tectonics and stratigraphy, coal petrology and palaeontology, mineral matter in coal and the environment, mining geophysics, coal technology and coalbed methane. Many studies describe coal deposits from Central and Eastern Europe, some of which are not well known in the West, that the papers and included references will provide an invaluable data source.
* Pub. Date: July 1997
* Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House
* Format: Hardcover, 448pp
* Series: Geological Society Special Publication Ser.
* ISBN-13: 9781897799864
* ISBN: 1897799861
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Czech Republic Energy Policy: conception and implementation in a market economy 1
- Coal production and usage in the Czech Republic 3
- Controls on the evolution of the Namurian paralic basin, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic 13
- The origin of magnetic remanence components of Westphalian C to Stephanian C sediments, West Bohemia: a record of waning Variscan tectonism 29
- A depositional and diagenetic model for the Eocene Sulcis coal basin of SW Sardinia 49
- Turkish lignite deposits 77
- The origin and properties of a coal seam associated with continental thin micritic limestones, Selimoglu Divrigi, Turkey 101
- Chemical characteristics, mineralogical composition and rank of high sulphur coking coals of Middle Miocene age in the Gokler coal field, Gediz, Turkey 115
- The main coal facies and lithotypes of the Pliocene coal basin, Oltenia, Romania 131
- Bulgarian low rank coals: geology and petrology 141
- Coal petrology and facies associations of the South Yakutian Coal Basin, Siberia 149
- Coal rank variations with depth related to major thrust detachments in the South Wales coalfield: implications for fluid flow and mineralization 161
- Deep borehole evidence for a southward extension of the Early Namurian deposits near Nemcicky, S Moravia Czech Republic: implication for rapid coalification 179
- Mossbauer spectroscopic investigation of low rank coal lithotypes 195
- Comparison of solid state [superscript 13]C NMR of algal coals/anthracite and charcoal-like fusinites: further evidence for graphitic domains 201
- Composition and properties of North Bohemian coals 207
- Aliphatic biological markers in Miocene Maritza-Iztok lignite, Bulgaria 219
- Floristic characters of the upper coal-bearing formation in the Transcarpathians 229
- The distribution of sulphur in the Palaeocene coals of the Sindh province of Pakistan 237
- Sulphur distribution in a multi-bed seam 245
- Values of [delta][superscript 34] in iron disulphides of the North Bohemian lignite basin, Czech Republic 261
- Determination of different forms of sulphur in Yugoslav soft brown coals 269
- Origin of vanadium in coals: parts of the western Kentucky (USA) No. 9 coal rich in vanadium 273
- Environmental impact of minerals in UK coals 287
- A well logging method for the determination of the sulphur contents in coal seams by means of deep gammaspectrometry 297
- A logging correlation scheme for the main coal seam of the North Bohemian brown coal basin, and the implications for the palaeogeographical development of the basin 309
- Seismic monitoring for rock burst prevention in the Ostrava-Karvina coalfield, Czech Republic 321
- An analysis of mining induced seismicity and its relationship to fault zones 329
- Comparison of structures derived from mine workings and those interpreted in seismic profiles: an example from the Kacice deposit, Kladno Mine, Bohemia 337
- Improvements in direct coal liquefaction using beneficiated coal fractions 349
- Conversion of low rank coal into liquid fuels by direct hydrogenation 357
- Desulphurization of low-rank coals by low-temperature carbonization 365
- Amelioration of high organic sulphur coal for combustion in domestic stoves 371
- The use of pulverized lignite/natural gas mixed fuels in the high-temperature process of a cement rotary kiln 379
- The possibility of underground gasification of Bulgarian Dobrudja’s coal 385
- Coalbed methane migration in and around fault zones 391
- Geological research into gas sorbed in the coal seams of the Carboniferous in the Mseno Roudnice basin, Czech Republic 409
- Estimation method for methane emission from Polish coal mining 425
- Methane emissions and its utilization from Ostrava-Karvina collieries in the Upper Silesian coal basin, Czech Republic 435
- Index 441
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