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Useful Publications and Web Sites on UCG

Web Sites

UK DTI Cleaner Fossil Fuel Programme

The site gives details of the UK Cleaner Fossil Fuel Technology programme of the Department o f Trade and Industry.Project summaries and reports can be downloaded in pdf format.

The Coal Authority

An overview of the UK project on UCG is provided in the information section. see link

LINC Energy

This is the site for Linc Energy who operated the current Australian UCG project at Chinchilla.

Ergo Exergy

Ergo Exergy provided UCG technology for the Linc Energy Project in Australia. Two papers on the project can be downloaded from this site.

Publications

  1. Underground Coal Gasification in the United Kingdom Summary Document prepared for the 5th European Gasification Conference 'Gasification-The Clean Choice' 8-10 April 2002, Noordwijk (Also available on The Coal Authority Website)
  2. The Chinchilla IGCC Project to Date - Underground Coal Gasification and Environment, Proceedings of the 2002 Gasification Technologies Conference, San Francisco, USA, October 27 - 30, 2002.(Available on the Ergo Exergy Website)
  3. An IGCC Project at Chinchilla, Australia based on Underground Coal Gasification, Proceedings of the 2001 Gasification Technologies Conference, San Francisco, USA, October 8-10, 2001.(Also available on the Ergo Exergy Website)
  4. Underground Coal Gasification – A Joint European Field Trial in Spain DTI Project Summary 017, March 1999
  5. Environmental Protection Agency (1999), The Class V Underground Injection Control Study, Volume 13 In-Situ Fossil Fuel Recovery Well. U.S. EPA Report, Spetember 1999, September 1999. Avaiable on EPA Website Report 816-R-014m
  6. Review of UCG Technological Advances Report No. COAL R211, Aug 2001, available on DTI web site, as a (Available at DTI Fossil Fuel Technology under Project Summaries)
  7. Clean Energy from UCG in China - UK-China Technology Transfer - DTI Project Profile 290. (Available at DTI Fossil Fuel Technology under Project Profiles).
  8. Summary of DTI Energy Paper 67 Cleaner Coal Technologies: The Government's Plan for R& D,technology Transfer and Export Promotion, DTI, April 1999 (Available at DTI Fossil Fuel Technology under Other Publications)
  9. The Future Development of UCG, Comprehensive Report to CEC by the European Working Group Report on UCG, April 1989