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Underground coal gasification modelling activities in Belgium

Conference ·
OSTI ID:324691
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  1. Institution pour le Developpement de la Gazeification Souterraine, Liege (Belgium)
  2. Univ. de Liege (Belgium). Institut de Chimie
  3. Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
This paper summarizes recent modelling studies in Belgium. The models were developed within the framework of the two European Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) field trials at great depth: Thulin (Belgium), 1980--1987 and Alcorisa (Spain), 1992--1997 (in progress). UCG process modelling can be divided into two categories according to the degree of physicochemical description details: (1) models based on a macroscopic or ``global`` description of phenomena and (2) models based on a more detailed description of the mechanisms involved. In parallel to UCG process modelling activities, a production well model was developed on the same detailed description of the mechanisms involved.
OSTI ID:
324691
Report Number(s):
CONF-970931--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English