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Contents

List of contributors xi
Biographies xiii
Preface xxv
Acknowledgments xxix

1 Coal 1
Isabel Su arez-Ruiz, María Antonia Diez and Fernando Rubiera
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 General concepts about coal 3
1.3 Coal resources 5
1.4 Coal reserves, production, and consumption 8
1.5 Coal quality 10
1.6 Environmental issues related to coal 24
1.7 The coal in the future 26
1.8 Concluding remarks 27
Acknowledgments 28
References 28

2 Current status of CO 2 capture from coal facilities 31
Marta G. Plaza and Covadonga Pevida
2.1 Introduction 31
2.2 Post-combustion CO 2 capture in coal-fired power plants 32
2.3 Oxy-combustion capture in coal power plants 40
2.4 Power generation from coal gasification with pre-combustion
capture 44
2.5 CO 2 capture in coal-based industrial processes 48
2.6 Concluding remarks 54
Acknowledgments 55
References 55