Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion

Informationen zum Autor Michael S. Blinderman is a recognized authority on Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology, with over 30 years' experience in UCG research, development, pilot and commercial operations in Uzbekistan (Angren), Russia (Yuzhno-Abinsk), Australia (Chinchilla and Kingaroy), South Africa (Majuba), and New Zealand (Huntly West). He serves as a managing director of a UCG technology company, Ergo Exergy Technologies Inc., in Canada. Alexander Y. Klimenko received his PhD from Moscow University in 1991 and his DEng from the University of Queensland in 2007. He has 150 journal and conference publications which are cited more than 2370 times, and he is involved in various UCG projects. Dr Klimenko lectures in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, the University of Queensland, Australia. Klappentext Underground Coal Gasification and Combustion provides a comprehensive overview of the development of UCG, its current situation, and likely future directions. After an introductory part reviewing the history of UCG, following sections focus on UCG technology and modern UCG projects. Final chapters address prospective technologies. Underground coal gasification (UCG) processes convert solid coal resources that would otherwise not be mined into syngas. The resulting syngas can be used for power generation, fuel production, or other petrochemical processes. . In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in UCG as it may offer financial, social, and environmental benefits over conventional coal extraction methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Historical Development of UCG 1. Early development and discoveries 2. UCG development in the USSR 3. UCG Program in the USA 4. European UCG tests Part II. UCG Technology 5. Process description and major methods of UCG 6. UCG and gasification kinetics 7. Well linking 8. Environmental impact and groundwater 9. The role of rock deformation in UCG Part III. Modern UCG projects, scaling up and commercialization 10. What makes a UCG technology commercial-ready? 11. UCG to products: Designs, efficiencies, economics 12. Ergo Exergy: Majuba, Swan Hills 13. Carbon Energy: Bloodwood Creek 14. Linc Energy: Chinchilla Part IV. Fire underground: prospective technologies 15. Underground coal fires 16. Soil remediation by underground fires 17. UCG under sea bed 18. Underground retorting and gasification of shale oils ...

Autorentext
Michael S. Blinderman is a recognized authority on Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology, with over 30 years' experience in UCG research, development, pilot and commercial operations in Uzbekistan (Angren), Russia (Yuzhno-Abinsk), Australia (Chinchilla and Kingaroy), South Africa (Majuba), and New Zealand (Huntly West). He serves as a managing director of a UCG technology company, Ergo Exergy Technologies Inc., in Canada. Alexander Y. Klimenko received his PhD from Moscow University in 1991 and his DEng from the University of Queensland in 2007. He has 150 journal and conference publications which are cited more than 2370 times, and he is involved in various UCG projects. Dr Klimenko lectures in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, the University of Queensland, Australia.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt

Part I. Historical Development of UCG
1. Early development and discoveries

2. UCG development in the USSR
3. UCG Program in the USA

4. European UCG tests

   Part II. UCG Technology
   5. Process description and major methods of UCG

5. UCG and gasification kinetics
6. Well linking
7. Environmental impact and groundwater

8. The role of rock deformation in UCG

   Part III. Modern UCG projects, scaling up and commercialization
   10. What makes a UCG technology commercial-ready?

9. UCG to products: Designs, efficiencies, economics
10. Ergo Exergy: Majuba, Swan Hills
11. Carbon Energy: Bloodwood Creek

12. Linc Energy: Chinchilla

    Part IV. Fire underground: prospective technologies
    15. Underground coal fires

13. Soil remediation by underground fires
14. UCG under sea bed
15. Underground retorting and gasification of shale oils