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Underground coal gasification

Title
Underground coal gasification / George H. Lamb.
Author
Lamb, George H.
Publication
Park Ridge, N.J. : Noyes Data Corp., 1977.

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Description
xii, 255 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Energy technology review ; no. 14
Uniform Title
Energy technology review ; no. 14.
Subject
Coal gasification, Underground
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 251-255.
Contents
GENERAL BACKGROUND AND HISTORY: Energy requirements -- Historical development -- Beneficial implications -- U.S. Resource assessment and characterization -- THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COAL GASIFICATION: General composition and reactions -- Fundamental processes and properties -- GENERAL METHODS OF UNDERGROUND GASIFICATION: Shaft methods -- Shaftless method -- Combination methods -- U.S. PROGRAMS: LERC gasification project (LVW) -- The LLL coal gasification process (TPB) -- MERC coal gasification process (LWG) -- PROPOSED ALTERNATIVE METHODS AND IMPROVEMENTS: Blind borehole-fill system -- Shaftless borehole-producer method -- Steeply dipping coal beds -- Concept for in situ gasification of deep coal deposits -- Concept of process using gravitational forces and a specified drill hole pattern -- Proprietary processes -- OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES, DESIGNS AND STUDIES: Site characterization -- Coal processing experiments -- Materials research -- Special designs -- Specialized techniques -- Explosive fracturing studies -- TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS: Flame front coning -- Liquid plugging -- Roof collapse -- MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS FOR IN SITU PROCESSING: In situ information requirements -- General diagnostic measurements -- LERC instrumentation and process control program -- LLL instrumentation programs -- EM measurement of fluid permeability -- MERC instrumentation programs -- Sandia laboratories instrumentation studies -- INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS: Western Europe -- Soviet effort -- Underground gasification in Czechoslovakia -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS: General benefits -- LLL Hoe Creek experiments -- Control and disposal of pollutants -- ECONOMICS: LLL cost estimate.
ISBN
  • 0815506708
  • 9780815506706
LCCN
77077022
OCLC
  • ocm03360992
  • 3360992
  • SCSB-9123093
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