Coal research in the United States

Jack S. Siegel

Energy, 1986, vol. 11, issue 11, 1125-1138

Abstract: Three principal factors drive the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy's (DOE) coal research program: 1.(1) oil and gas are expected to continue to be extensively used in the industrial, commercial, residential, and transportation sectors;2.(2) as a result of their poor economic health, U.S. utilities may run into a capacity shortfall in the 1990s and turn to natural gas and/or oil to meet their capacity needs; and3.(3) new environmental rquirements are looming that may greatly hinder the use of coal and/or add greatly to the costs of using coal. As a result, there is the need to develop: 1.(1) inexpensive coal-based fuels and/or machines that can economically, and in enviromentally sound ways, use coal in the light industrial, commercial, residential, and to some extent the transportation sectors;2.(2) low capital cost, modular, environmentally sound systems for baseload utility applications;3.(3) economical technologies to produce coal-based substitutes for petroleum-based liquids as well as substitutes for natural gas; and4.(4) reliable, cost-effective environmental control devices. To address these needs, the DOE is supporting research in every part of the coal utilization and conversion fuel cycles. The following is a summary of that program. It should be noted that, in addition to the DOE's program, considerable coal research is being conducted by private entities in the United States and in other countries.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(86)90049-6

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