Characterization, Processing and Utilization of Coal, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coal is one of the most important raw materials and energy sources in the modern world. Even with all the problems related to sustainable development, it does not seem possible that humanity can give up this mineral resource over the next 100 years.
The exploration, processing, and use of coal within a context of sustainable industry remains one of the greatest challenges in this mineral area. Despite the importance and relative ease of coal exploration, these resources have historically been underestimated as a new source of energy in the transformation industry. Currently, there is a clear need to seek alternatives for strategic planning and research for the use of this mineral resource in a sustainable way, with respect to environmental control and preservation laws. The importance of coal to the world becomes clear when analyzing the composition of the global energy matrix and realizing that coal is in a position below oil. Regarding electricity generation, it is the world's main resource.
Within this scenario, the challenge that presents itself is the structuring of actions for the research, sustainability, and expansion of the coal production chain. This objective should be defined based on modern technologies, which aim to guarantee the production of a cleaner material, implementing an interdisciplinary project, based on thematic lines such as production, conversion, applications, as well as the environment in mineral coal systems.
This Special Issue is organized into three sections:
- Section 1—Production: research and case studies in specific coal exploration and processing systems.
- Section 2—Utilization and conversion: research and case studies for the use and/or conversion of coal in metallurgical and carbochemical industries.
- Section 3—Environmental control: research and case studies for environmental control systems, the recovery of degraded areas, and the development of cleaner technologies for the coal industry.
Dr. Irineu Antonio Schadach Brum
Prof. Dr. Carlos Hoffmann Sampaio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coal
- mineral processing
- production
- coal utilization
- coal conversion
- environmental control
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