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.
1. 1: Introduction to underground coal gasification and combustion - p. xii 2. Part One: Historical development of underground coal gasification (UCG) - p. 8 3. 2: Early developments and inventions in underground coal gasification - p. 8 4. 3: History of UCG development in the USSR - p. 24 5. 4: Underground coal gasification research and development in the United States - p. 58 6. 5: Underground coal gasification (UCG) in Europe: Field trials, laboratory experiments, and EU-funded projects - p. 127 7. Part Two: Underground coal gasification (UCG) technology development - p. 171 8. 6: The development of UCG in Australia - p. 171 9. 7: Gasification kinetics - p. 212 10. 8: The role of groundwater as an important component in underground coal gasification - p. 252 11. 9: The effects of rock deformation in underground coal gasification - p. 281 12. 10: Underground coal gasification (UCG) modeling and analysis - p. 327 13. 11: Environmental performance of underground coal gasification - p. 362 14. Part Three: Modern underground coal gasification (UCG) projects, scaling up and commercialization - p. 399 15. 12: What makes a UCG technology ready for commercial application? - p. 399 16. 13: Underground coal gasification (UCG) to products: Designs, efficiencies, and economics - p. 434 17. 14: Majuba underground coal gasification project - p. 467 18. 15: UCG commercialization and the Cougar Energy project at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia - p. 502 19. 16: Underground gasification of oil shale - p. 526 20. Part Four: Fire underground: Prospective technologies - p. 579 21. 17: Underground fire prospective technologies - p. 579 22. 18: Using fire to remediate contaminated soils - p. 599 23. 19: Advanced measurements and monitoring techniques - p. 625 24. Index - p. 637
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.
1. 1: Introduction to underground coal gasification and combustion - p. xii 2. Part One: Historical development of underground coal gasification (UCG) - p. 8 3. 2: Early developments and inventions in underground coal gasification - p. 8 4. 3: History of UCG development in the USSR - p. 24 5. 4: Underground coal gasification research and development in the United States - p. 58 6. 5: Underground coal gasification (UCG) in Europe: Field trials, laboratory experiments, and EU-funded projects - p. 127 7. Part Two: Underground coal gasification (UCG) technology development - p. 171 8. 6: The development of UCG in Australia - p. 171 9. 7: Gasification kinetics - p. 212 10. 8: The role of groundwater as an important component in underground coal gasification - p. 252 11. 9: The effects of rock deformation in underground coal gasification - p. 281 12. 10: Underground coal gasification (UCG) modeling and analysis - p. 327 13. 11: Environmental performance of underground coal gasification - p. 362 14. Part Three: Modern underground coal gasification (UCG) projects, scaling up and commercialization - p. 399 15. 12: What makes a UCG technology ready for commercial application? - p. 399 16. 13: Underground coal gasification (UCG) to products: Designs, efficiencies, and economics - p. 434 17. 14: Majuba underground coal gasification project - p. 467 18. 15: UCG commercialization and the Cougar Energy project at Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia - p. 502 19. 16: Underground gasification of oil shale - p. 526 20. Part Four: Fire underground: Prospective technologies - p. 579 21. 17: Underground fire prospective technologies - p. 579 22. 18: Using fire to remediate contaminated soils - p. 599 23. 19: Advanced measurements and monitoring techniques - p. 625 24. Index - p. 637
