THE COAL QUESTION: INQUIRY CONCERNING NATIONAL PROGRESS & PROBABLE COAL EXHAUSTION

By DANIEL MILLER

CONTENTS PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GASI?CATION FEEDSTOCK CHARACTERIZATION FOR PYROLYSIS AND GASI?CATION THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF GASI?CATION GASI?ERS: TYPES, OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES, AND COMMERCIAL FORMS HYDRODYNAMICS OF CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED SYSTEMS INVESTIGATION OF BIOMASS GASI?ER PRODUCT GAS COMPOSITION AND ITS CHARACTERIZATION GAS CLEANING AND TAR CONVERSION IN BIOMASS GASI?CATION PART II EXPERIMENTS, MODELING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF GASI?CATION MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES: COLD FLOW STUDIES CAVITY MODELS FOR UNDERGROUND COAL GASI?CATION GASI?CATION OF MIXED BIOMASS: ANALYSIS USING EQUILIBRIUM, SEMI-EQUILIBRIUM, AND KINETIC MODELS NUMERICAL MODELLING OF FLUIDIZED BED GASI?CATION: AN OVERVIEW ENTRAINED FLOW GASI?CATION: CURRENT STATUS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ADVANCED NUMERICAL METHODS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED GASI?CATION AND CHP GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES TRANSIENT COLD FLOW SIMULATION OF A FAST FLUIDIZED BED FUEL REACTOR FOR CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION PART III INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND UTILIZATION OF WASTES SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE BIOMASS GASI?CATION PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF AMMONIA RECENT ADVANCES IN POWER GENERATION THROUGH BIOMASS AND MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE GASI?CATION SOLAR-ASSISTED GASI?CATION BASED COOK STOVES PART IV ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES OF GASI?CATION DUAL FLUIDIZED BED GASI?CATION OF SOLID FUELS NEW PATHWAYS IN CLEAN COMBUSTION OF BIOMASS AND COAL VIA PARTIAL GASI?CATION SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS IN GASI?CATION OF COAL/BIOMASS BLENDS: ANALYSIS AND REVIEW CHEMICAL LOOPING AND PLASMA TECHNOLOGIES FOR GASI?CATION OF COAL AND BIOMASS