Pyrolysis: Pathway to Coal Clean Technologies

Abstract

Pyrolysis remains key to all coal utilisation processes such as combustion, gasification and liquefaction. Understanding the thermochemical changes accompanying these processes through pyrolysis would help in defining the technical performance of the processes. With the recent concern for the environment and renewed interest in research on clean coal technology (CCT), hydrogen from coal through the integrated gasification combined cycle has been considered for the proposed hydrogen economy