New Trends in Coal Science (Nato Science Series C:, 244)

This volume contains the lectures presented at the Advanced Study Institute on "New Trends in Coal Science" which was held at Datca, HUgla, Turkey during August 23 - September 4, 1987. The book includes 23 chapters which were originally written for the meeting by some of the world's foremost investigators. Chemists everywhere are carrying out exciting research that has important implications for the energy and fuels industries and for society in general. For the near future, coal resources will continue to be of great importance and science and technology of the highest order are needed to extend this fossil energy resource and to utilize it in an economical way that is also environmentally acceptable. These were the main purposes for the organization of this NATO ASI. The Institute constituted two working weeks on structure and reactivity of coal and so is the book. Through the presentation of many specific recent results on structure and characterization of coal and its products the potential of new instrumental techniques is presented in the first part of the book. Finally the reactivity of coals at different conditions both in laboratory and industry is discussed. We hope that the volume will be of great use to research workers from academic and industrial background. In addition it could serve as a textbook for a graduate course on coal science and technology. Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Origin of Coals....Pages 1-52 The Nature and Origins of Coal Macerals....Pages 53-72 Macromolecular Structure of Coals: Status and Opportunities....Pages 73-84 Solvent Swelling of Coals....Pages 85-116 Solid State 13 C NMR in Coal Research: Selected Techniques and Application....Pages 117-158 A New Approach for Quantitative 13 C NMR Spectroscopy of Coal....Pages 159-167 Structural Analysis of Coal Derivatives....Pages 169-186 Estimating Thermophysical Properties of Coal Liquids Using NMR Spectra....Pages 187-196 The Infrared Spectra of Coals, 1980–1986....Pages 197-218 Introduction to Coal Photochemistry....Pages 219-239 Coal Characterization by Means of Curie-Point Pyrolysis Techniques....Pages 241-269 Chromatographic Techniques in Coal Science....Pages 271-285 The Oxygen Functional Groups in Bituminous Coal....Pages 287-303 Slow and Rapid Pyrolysis of Coal....Pages 305-338 Coal Liquefaction Kinetics....Pages 339-359 Catalysis of Coal Liquefaction....Pages 361-381 Solubilization of Coal....Pages 383-399 Supercritical Gas Extraction of Coal....Pages 401-415 Coal Desulfurization. The Protodesulfurization of Naphthalene Thiols and Sulfides....Pages 417-431 Kinetics of Coal Gasification....Pages 433-452 Transport and Other Effects in Coal Gasification....Pages 453-480 Fluidized Bed Combustion of Coal....Pages 481-494 Prediction of the Behaviour of Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Coal Combustors....Pages 495-522 Back Matter....Pages 523-529