The first edition of the book Coal: Typology - Chemistry - Physics
- Constitution appeared in 1961. In 1981 a new edition was
published in which the text was unaltered proving that after 20
years the book was still considered a standard work in its field.
The enormous activities in the 80's in the field of coal conversion
processes (especially gasification and
liquefaction) and the equally amazing development of instrumental
techniques of observation and analysis prompted a complete revision
and update of the book. The present edition contains 1000 pages
compared to the 514 pages of its predecessors of 1961 and 1981. The
number of illustrations has greatly increased from 253 to 574 and
that of the tables from 76 to 208. These figures amply testify to
the increase in coal research.
Compared with its former editions, the present book treats a
considerable number of new subjects: modern concepts of
geotectonics and of organic geochemistry; the problem of
pseudohomogeneity of vitrinite; developments of the classification
and systematics of coals and coal components (macerals); an expose
on electron microscopy and the most important instrumental physical
methods of analysis (FTIR, NMR, ESCA and analytical pyrolysis
combined with gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy); the
principles of physical-statistical structure analysis based on the
concept of additivity of a large number of molar functions; a
revision of Seyler's ideas of discrete steps in coalification; an
essay on coal fluorescence; and the survey on magnetic properties -
magnetic susceptibility and magnetic resonance - is considerably
enlarged. A completely new chapter is added on cohesion and
adhesion phenomena as found in coals. The chapter on solvent
extraction and solubilisation is
significantly enlarged and new concepts are discussed. The actions
of hydrogen, molecular oxygen and oxidising agents on coal are
updated and a newly written chapter treats the grand processes of
coal conversion (combustion, gasification, carbonisation and
liquefaction). Coal constitution in its diverse aspects is revised
with a practically complete survey of many proposed coal models.
Essays on synthetic coal analogues and on the simulation of natural
coalification are added. Also new is the compendium, a set of
comprehensive tables, containing the most important numerical data
of this book in a fully
comparative form.
Every chapter has its own bibliography, divided into general
references (leading books on the treated subject) and special
references, which are quotations of scientific papers discussed in
the text. The extensive subject index, complete index of names and
the compendium are provided in order to facilitate usage as an
encyclopedic work.
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