The commercial extraction of methane from coal beds is now well established in a number of
countries throughout the world, including the USA, Australia, China, India and Canada …

Hydrothermal carbonization can be defined as combined dehydration and decarboxy lation
of a fuel to raise its carbon content with the aim of achieving a higher calorific value. It is …

This article addresses the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type. While
theoretically settled long ago as being different aspects of coal systems science, the two …

Organic petrology developed as coal petrology at the beginning of the 20th century
dedicated mainly to the study of coals because of their utilization in industry. Coal petrology …

Sedimentary organic matter derives from biological precursor material which undergoes
systematic, irreversible changes upon burial which mainly reflect increasing diagenetic …

This book is an integrated approach towards the applications of coal (organic) petrology and
discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics. Coal petrology …

Stable carbon and hydrogen isotope signatures of methane, water, and inorganic carbon
are widely utilized in natural gas systems for distinguishing microbial and thermogenic …

Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, which provide direct measurements
of the chemical structure of organic matter, have been obtained for a large number of New …

A series of molecular dynamics simulations using the ReaxFF reactive force field was
carried out to investigate the mechanism of initial thermal decomposition associated with …

A worldwide data set of more than 500 humic coals from the major coal-forming geological
periods has been used to analyse the evolution in the remaining (Hydrogen Index, HI) and …