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PREFACE The United States has more Btu's in its coal reserves than the Mid-East has in its oil reserves. The United States, if it is to approach self-sufficiency, must exploit coal. Since there are transportation systems for oil and gas products already available in the United States, it would make obvious sense to convert coal into these products so that these usable forms of energy could be shipped to the end-user. Unfortunately, there are technical, institutional, andfinancialbarriers that have prevented the development of the coal conversion industry. These problems and potential solutions to them are delineated in this book. This book includes a compendium of papers presented at a symposium entitled Coal Dilemma II and the discussions that followed between the authors and the participants. The objective of the symposium was to present problems and postulate solutions. The papers are the most current in coal conversion. Technical and economical information is presented in all the papers that appear. Probably the most important aspect of this book is the discussions that followed the presentations of the papers by the participants in the audience and the authors. These discussions will give the reader an insight to the complex nature of the problems that are faced by the United States. I would like to acknowledge the services of and thank several individuals without whose help this manuscript could not have been prepared. Arthur Conn, President of Arthur L. Conn & Associates, and Leonard Seglin, President of Econergy Associates, were the cochairmen of the two-day symposium. They enlisted the aid of the authors whose manuscripts are included in this text and helped stimulate interest in the technical community. I would also like to acknowledge Rosemary Szymanski, Suzanne Rigler, and Loretta Pelofsky for typing, proofreading, and generally preparing the manuscript for publication. Last, but not least, I would like to thank the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for honoring me by giving me the opportunity to be the general chairman of the symposium and the editor of this manuscript. Science Applications, Inc. East Brunswick, New Jersey May 21, 1979
ARNOLD H. PELOFSKY
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PREFACE The United States has more Btu's in its coal reserves than the Mid-East has in its oil reserves. The United States, if it is to approach self-sufficiency, must exploit coal. Since there are transportation systems for oil and gas products already available in the United States, it would make obvious sense to convert coal into these products so that these usable forms of energy could be shipped to the end-user. Unfortunately, there are technical, institutional, andfinancialbarriers that have prevented the development of the coal conversion industry. These problems and potential solutions to them are delineated in this book. This book includes a compendium of papers presented at a symposium entitled Coal Dilemma II and the discussions that followed between the authors and the participants. The objective of the symposium was to present problems and postulate solutions. The papers are the most current in coal conversion. Technical and economical information is presented in all the papers that appear. Probably the most important aspect of this book is the discussions that followed the presentations of the papers by the participants in the audience and the authors. These discussions will give the reader an insight to the complex nature of the problems that are faced by the United States. I would like to acknowledge the services of and thank several individuals without whose help this manuscript could not have been prepared. Arthur Conn, President of Arthur L. Conn & Associates, and Leonard Seglin, President of Econergy Associates, were the cochairmen of the two-day symposium. They enlisted the aid of the authors whose manuscripts are included in this text and helped stimulate interest in the technical community. I would also like to acknowledge Rosemary Szymanski, Suzanne Rigler, and Loretta Pelofsky for typing, proofreading, and generally preparing the manuscript for publication. Last, but not least, I would like to thank the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for honoring me by giving me the opportunity to be the general chairman of the symposium and the editor of this manuscript. Science Applications, Inc. East Brunswick, New Jersey May 21, 1979
ARNOLD H. PELOFSKY
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CONTRIBUTORS RALPH BLOOM, JR., Manager of Business Development, COGAS Development Company GENERAL JAY R. BRILL, Deputy Undersecretary for Strategic Petroleum Reserves, Department of Energy Downloaded by 80.82.77.83 on December 31, 2017 | http://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: November 21, 1979 | doi: 10.1021/bk-1979-0110.pr001
E. L. CLARK, Consultant H. D. COCHRAN, Coal Conversion, Oak Ridge National Laboratory W. ROBERT EPPERLY, General Manager, Exxon Research & Engineering Company GERARD C. GAMBS, Vice President, Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc. RICHARD F. HILL, Executive Manager, Engineering Societies Commission on Energy DR. HENRY R. LINDEN, Professor of Gas Engineering and Research, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology RICHARD A. PASSMAN, Director, Office of Coal Resource Management U.S. Dept. of Energy BRUCE K. SCHMID, Technical Advisor, Gulf Mineral Resources HOWARD M. SIEGEL, Manager, Synthetic Fuels Engineering Dept., Exxon Research & Engineering Company J. C. SWAN, Project Director, Ashland Synthetic Fuels, Ashland Oil Company RONALD H. WOLK, Program Manager, Electric Power Research Institute
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