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Proceedings of the Opportunities in the Synfuels Industry

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5784252
Reports from a meeting on opportunities in the synfuels industry are presented. Topics included: prospects and constraints in the use of coal in Italy; Australian coals in the domestic and international energy scenes, the present and future; update on the synfuels industry in the republic of South Africa; a comparative techno-economic analysis of coprocessing, direct coal liquefaction and resid upgrading; review and update of the coal fired diesel engine; German coals; utilization now and in future; Canadian coal export future; coal gasification combined cycle power generation enhancement with methanol; the outlook for coal in Korea; US coal export opportunities; coal opportunities in Eastern Europe; world oil price and how it relates to future coal mine development; the technologies of the clean coal technology demonstration program; use of oil shale waste in a circulating fluid bed; synfuels in Japan; beneficiation by oil agglomeration of center North Dakota lignite; heavy clean coal project; the future coal in southeast Asia; global perspectives; and fluid bed operations to date. Individual projects are processed separately on the data bases.
Research Organization:
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND (United States). Energy and Environmental Research Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-90PC90361
OSTI ID:
5784252
Report Number(s):
CONF-900845--; ON: DE91014476
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English