Health and Environmental Research Program Related to Coal-Conversion Technologies and Their Future Directions

摘要

A technical review meeting was held to provide an open forum for discussing future health and environmental research needs in coal conversion technologies. The technical review meeting had the following major objectives: (1) to provide a broad review of the short-term health and environmental data base developed over the past several years; (2) to uncover the data gaps which might still exist in the short-term data base; and (3) to develop recommendations for future health and environmental research needs related to coal conversion technologies. To accomplish these objectives, five Panels were established: Panel I, Health Effects Research; Panel II, Ecological Effects Research; Panel III, Chemical and Physical Characterization Research; Panel IV, Industrial Hygiene Research; and Panel V, Health and Environmental Assessments. Initially, all panels met in plenary session for an overview of the currently available data bases in each area of research. The panels then met in separate sessions to focus on their respective areas of research and to address future research needs in those areas. This document summarizes the deliberations, conclusions, and recommendations of the participants at this meeting. Separate abstracts of individual sessions were prepared for inclusion in the Energy Data Base. (ERA citation 08:009109)