Proximate analysis is a long-serving, widely used approach for determining the rank of coals. This method works by separating out inert components, volatile components and fixed carbon. The quality of ...

Sept. 11, 2003 — A new hydrogen gasification process which is modeled after a coal gasification process has been issued a patent pending. Using gasification technologies, hydrogen can cost around 20 ...

As the world searches for less polluting sources of energy, a number of companies have built pilot plants to determine how best to manage the manufacturing processes for these new materials. The ...

Industrial facilities of all kinds frequently must deal with particulate matter impinging the wheel and housing of industrial fans and eroding fan components. This is true even of fans manufactured ...

DOE programs addressed in this chapter—namely, coal preparation, coal-liquid mixtures, and coalbed methane recovery—currently constitute relatively minor components of the total DOE coal program.