Coal Gasification and Its Applications

Coal gasification enables engineers, energy companies and policy experts to unlock the potential of domestic coal reserves for cleaner energy and energy security. Taking a process engineering approach to the subject, Bell and Towler outline a complete coal-to-products system and provide guidance for those who are working to improve specific components in the coal conversion processes. While coal gasification is a mature technology, it is receiving fresh attention as a cleaner technology for coal-based energy production and as an enabling technology to make deeper coal reserves economically viable. Thus, gasification has become part of the CleanTech and energy security agendas. As well as introducing engineers and students to the core principles and practice of coal gasification, the authors introduce new technologies such as in-situ gasification of coal, CO2 sequestration and gas cleaning processes. Coal Gasification and Its Applications is an in-depth study of the coal to gas process. It includes a well-researched look at the carbon capture and sequestration, a topic that has previously been ignored by most other coal gasification publications.