Coal Surface Mining and Power Production in the Face of Environmental Protection Requirements

摘要

A partial listing of topic areas includes: Overview of the United States environmental research program related to coal extraction conversion through the year 2000; Present and future role of lignite in Polish power production and basic problems of environmental protection; Legislation and regulations controlling coal extraction and conversion in the United States; Present and future surface coal extraction technologies in the United States; Surface mining of lignite with belt conveyors and its environmental advantages; Coal mining and ground water; The impact of lignite mining on surface water and means of its control; Coal refuse disposal practices and challenges in the United States; Reclamation practices for coal refuse and fly ash disposal; Successful revegetation of coal-mined lands in the United States; Efforts of agricultural reclamation of toxic spoils in lignite surface mining in Poland; Selected problems of environmental protection in designing coal fired power - plants and high tension systems; Air pollution in the vicinity of large thermal power plants and control.