Oils and gases from coal.
Contributors: United Nations.; United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Published for the United Nations by Pergamon Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford, Eng; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Coal liquefaction -- Congresses.; Coal gasification -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
A review of the state-of-the-art in Europe and North America based on the Work of the Symposium on the Gasification and Liquefaction of Coal held under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Katowice, Poland 23-27 April, 1979.
Table of contents: value: Fettweis, G. Assessment of world resources of coal and prospects for the production of different types of coal in relation to dwindling supplies of other fossil energy.; value: Schilling, H.D. Comparative end-use efficiency of the use of coal.; value: Zielinski, H. Comparative end-use efficiency of the use of coal liquid versus other methods of using coal, e.g. in mining(processing), power generating complexes; in transport compared with electric vehicles; and for electricity generation.; value: Krichko, A.A. Theoretical bases of coal gasification.; value: Stroud, H.J.F. Recent achievements in conventional coal gasification processes.; value: Fumich, G. New gasification methods developed on a laboratory or large scale.; value: Ledent, P. Underground cal gasification.; value: Hulisz, S. Progress in R and D of coal liquefaction.; value: Teggers, H. Prospects for chemical syntheses based on gas from coal.; value: Sacher, H. Use of coal products for non-energy purposes.; value: Nemec, J. Protection of the atmosphere.; value: Chmielowski, J. Protection of waters.; value: Harrison, J.S. The utilization or disposal of coal processing residues.