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This two-part report elaborated by the Coal Industry Advisory Board on methane emissions from the coal industry and coalbed methane recovery and use constitutes a comprehensive reference book on this increasingly important topic linked to coal exploitation and use.

The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional 
Methane stored in coalbeds has emerged in recent years as a new energy source that offers a viable, cleaner-burning, and abundant alternative to fossil fuels. The recovery of coalbed methane requires a combination of oilfield and coalmining as well as new processes. This comprehensive and current reference covers all aspects of coalbed methane technology. This book discusses the principles of methane storage in coal and the practices of producing the methane economically on a commercial scale. Provides an overall analysis of the coalbed methane process; formation, structure, and properties of coal from the standpoint of importance to methane production; and details of oilfield engineering operations as modified for the production of methane from coal. al exploitation and use.

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Economic and environmental requirements for advanced power generating systems demand the removal of corrosive and other sulfurous compounds from hot coal gas. After a brief account of the world energy resources and an overview of clean coal technologies, a review of regenerable metal oxide sorbents for cleaning the hot gas is provided. Zinc oxide, copper oxide, calcium oxide, manganese oxide based as well as supported and mixed metal oxide sorbents are treated. Performance analysis of these sorbents, effects of various parameters on the desulfurization efficiency, kinetics of sulfidation and regeneration reactions, sulfiding and regeneration mechanisms are discussed. Two chapters present recent results in the direct production of elemental sulfur from regeneration or SO2-rich gases. 

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Presents the IEA analysis of the prospects for the supply of oil, natural gas, and coal through the year 2010. Key characteristics of the supply of fossil fuels are examined: location, costs of extraction and getting them to market, and the implications of the inexorable increase in energy demand on the timing, pace, and location of production. This study is a companion volume to the demand forecasts presented in the 1995 edition of "World Energy Outlook." 

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This companion volume to the author's Geological Evolution of South East Asia (1989) is the first and only book to give an analysis of the oil, gas, and mineral deposits of southeast Asia, including its economic geology. The stratigraphy, structure, hydrocarbon and coal deposits of the major Tertiary basins are described, and regional similarities and differences are analyzed. Among the areas featured are the copper and gold-silver deposits of the Philippines and Indonesia; the Sundaland peninsular core, considered the foremost source of tungsten and tin; and the declining tin mines of Malaysia and Thailand. This comprehensive survey will interest both the economic geologist and researcher of oil and mineral deposits.