Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of Coal and Coal-Bearing Strata
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1227
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coal geochemistry; coal geology; water environment geochemistry; hydrogeology; coal structure; coal utilization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As an important basic energy, coal has made great contributions to the development of human society. At present, in order to control the emission of carbon dioxide, we are trying to reduce the use of coal and realize its clean utilization as much as possible. Methane from coal-bearing measures (including coalbed methane) is an important unconventional clean energy source. The mineralogical and geochemical information of coal and coal-bearing strata is not only helpful for us to understand the formation mechanism of coal and coal-bearing strata, but also helpful for us to realize the clean utilization of coal.
This Special Issue is organized into the following sections:
- Section 1. Advances in sedimentology of coal-bearing strata;
- Section 2. Advances in mineralogy and geochemistry of strategic key metals (such as Ga and Ge, etc.) in coal;
- Section 3. Advances in mineralogy and geochemistry of hazardous elements in coal;
- Section 4. Advances in methane of coal-bearing measures.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the disclosure of advances in mineralogy and geochemistry of coal and coal-bearing strata in order to better understand the formation mechanism of coal and coal-bearing measures, as well as the clean utilization of coal.
Prof. Dr. Fenghua Zhao
Dr. Dongna Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coal
- strategic key metals
- hazardous elements
- clean utilization
- methane of coal-bearing measures
