Health and environmental effects of coal gasification and liquefaction technologies. A workshop summary and panel reports

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5231623

Brown, R; Witter, A ^[1]

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1. eds.

In his 1977 Environmental Message, President Carter directed the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a joint program to identify the health and environmental problems associated with advanced energy technologies and to review the adequacy of present research programs. This report is the result of a workshop to address the health and environmental effects of coal gasification and liquefaction technologies held in Leesburg, Virginia, from August 20 to 25, 1978. Throughout the workshop, attendees participated in six panels: occupational and public health and safety; air quality; water quality, water quantity, and aquatic ecology; errestrial effects; ambient measurement and monitoring; and source characterization. This report contains a presentation of the highlights of the issues considered by the panels and the panel reports, which contain specific information on environmental and health effects, information requirements, and detailed research statements. Lists of participants and support staff are provided in the Appendix. This report on coal gasification and liquefaction technologies responds to the first part of the President's directive - to identify health and environmental problems. The requisite research information needs associated with these problems will be compared with present Federal research programs in another report, a synthetic fuels summary, which will relate the priority of health and environmental research requirements of both oil shale and coal gasification and liquefaction technologies to ongoing research. The results of these reports and other products of the Interagency Committee should provide a basis for strengthening the Federal program for ensuring safe and timely development of our energy resources.

• Research Organization: Mitre Corp., McLean, VA (USA). METREK Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-79EV10018
• OSTI ID: 5231623
• Report Number(s): PB-297618; DOE/HEW/EPA-03; MTR-79W00137
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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