Alternative Energy offers readers comprehensive and easy-to-use information on the development of alternative energy sources.
• Although the set focuses on new or emerging energy sources, such as geothermal power and solar energy, it also discusses existing energy sources such as those that rely on fossil fuels. Each volume begins wi…
There are few places in the developed world particularly where the coal industry does not feel that it faces major challenges. Climate change, safety and a variety of other environmental.issues are just some of the concerns. In many cases these concerns are justified, and certainly in the developing world much more needs to be d…
During the last few decades coal chemistry and coal petrology have developed as special fields of research, of equal importance from both the scientific and practical viewpoints. Until the nineteen twenties coal chemists used to examine coal as a whole. However, after coal petrographers had. discovered tha…
This book provides a thorough, up-to-date overview of wastes accumulating at mine sites. It deals comprehensively with sulfidic mine wastes, mine water, tailings, cyanidation wastes, of gold-silver ores, radioactive wastes of uranium ores, and wastes of phosphate and potash ores. The book emphasizes the characterization, prediction, mnitoring, dispo…