Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Volume 1: Coal - Geology and Combustion
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-444-60207-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective is a compelling collection of research conducted by scientists and engineers around the world. The first of four volumes in the collection, Coal - Geology and Combustion, features chapters that discuss the origin of coal and coal fires; mining and use of coal; combustion and coal petrology; environmental and health impacts of coal fires; combustion by-products; geochemical, geophysical, and engineering methodologies for studying coal fires; the control, extinguishment, and political implications of coal fires; and much more.

Zielgruppe

Mineralogists, petrologists, coal geologists, geophysicists, mining engineers, environmental and remote sensing scientists, and anyone involved in technical aspects of coal mining, coal fires, and combustion metamorphism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stracher, Glenn B

Prakash, Anupma

Sokol, Ellina V.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Technologien für Fossile Energieträger

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Coal -- Geology and Combustion

1. Coal Formation and the Origin of Coal Fires (A.G. Kim).

2. Coal-Mining Techniques and Coal Fires (S.R. Michalski).

3. Spontaneous Combustion and Coal Petrology (M. Mastalerz, A. Drobniak, J.C. Hower, and J.M.K. O'Keefe).

4. Coal and Ancient Man: Cremation at the Tschudi Burn, Chan Chan, Northern Peru (W.E. Brooks, C. Galvez Mora, J.C. Jackson, J.P. McGeehin, and D.G. Hood).

5. Geotechnical and Environmental Problems: Coal and Spontaneous Combustion (L.J. Donnelly, and F.G. Bell).

6. The Effects of Global-Coal Fires (G.B. Stracher, and T.P. Taylor).

7. Environmental and Health Impacts of Coal Fires (R.B. Finkelman, and G.B. Stracher).

8. Coal-Fire Gas Chromatography (T.R. Blake, and S. Meinardi, and D.R. Blake).

9. Gas Vent Mineralization and Coal Combustion (G.B. Stracher).

10. Sample Identification and Imaging of Gas-Vent Mineral Assemblages (P.A. Schroeder, C. Fleisher, and G.B. Stracher).

11. Semivolatile Hydrocarbon Residues of Coal and Coal Tar (S.D. Emsbo-Mattingly, and S.A. Stout).

12. Magnetic Signatures of Rocks and Soils Affected by Burning Coal Seams (R.S. Sternberg).

13. Historical Use of Airborne Thermal Infrared Imaging for Detecting and Studying Coal Fires (D.H. Vice).

14. Remote Sensing of Coal Fires (A. Prakash, and R. Gens).

15. The Policy Setting for Coal Fires: Indicators for Government Action (K.M. McCurdy).

16. United States Bureau of Mines - Study and Control of Fires in Abandoned Mines and Waste Banks (A.G. Kim).

17. Smouldering-Combustion Phenomena and Coal Fires (G. Rein).

18. Burning and Suppression of Smouldering Coal Fires (R. Hadden, and G. Rein).

19. Modern-Foam-Injection Technology for Extinguishing Coal Fires (L. LaFosse, and M. Cummins)

Über Autor(innen)

Sokol, Ellina V.
Ellina Sokol is a distinguished research scientist at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

Prakash, Anupma
Anupma Prakash is Professor of Geophysics (Remote Sensing) at the Department of Geosciences and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. After receiving her M.Sc. degree in Geology from Lucknow University, India, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee, India, she moved to the Netherlands to work for the International Institute of Geo-information Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands. She is internationally recognized for her research on the use of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques for investigating surface and underground coal mine fires. Her coal fire research involves fire detection, mapping, monitoring, depth estimation, characterization and quantitative estimation of environmental impacts.