HAROLD H. SCHOBERT, Chairman, Fuel Sciences Program, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
if you haven't already contacted our home-state experts at WVU.
We refer you especially to Chapter 6:
"Clean Fuels and Specialty Products from Coal"
An excerpt:
"This chapter discusses the status of technologies for coal conversion to clean fuels and the role of the DOE in developing and promoting lower-cost, higher-efficiency processes to meet future needs. This discussion is divided into three major sections: gasification of coal, products from the gas obtained from coal gasification, and products from direct liquefaction and pyrolysis of coal.1 Opportunities for economic production of a range of coal-based products using coproduct systems, also known as coal refineries, is then addressed. The chapter concludes with the committee's major findings relating to clean fuels and specialty products from coal."
This looks like a valuable study and report, Mike - if we're all really interested in coal, and how to use it to make our liquid fuels and some of our chemicals and plastics. It contains many references for follow-up and fact-checking. We'll probably be sending you many burdensome emails based on our own findings within it. You should publish the web address so that every one of your readers with a computer could check it out.