Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective: Volume 5: Case Studies – Advances in Field and Laboratory Research

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective: A Companion to Volumes 1-4 includes the latest research findings about coal and peat fires in the United States, China, Indonesia, Spain, India, and elsewhere. This book focuses on important information about the relationship of combustion to human health and to water quality. It contains key information for geoscientists, fire-science and environmental engineers, and anyone interested in coal and peat fires that affect humans as well as entire ecosystems.

Chapters authored by world-renowned experts in coal and peat firesGlobal in scope – case studies from fires around the world are includedIncludes a companion website with additional resources and a periodically updated world map of coal and peat fires

1. The Earliest Known Uses of Coal as a Fuel: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Bronze Age Coal Fires   Glenn B. Stracher, J. Marion Wampler, Li Jun, Wang Yongqiang 2. Coal-Fire Microarthropods from the Centralia, Pennsylvania and Healy, Alaska Mine Fires  Glenn B. Stracher, Jimmy Wedincamp, Breana Simmons, John P. Shields, Yelena White, Melissa A. Nolter, Anupma Prakash, Nancy Lindsley-Griffin (late) 3. Coal Fires of Northeastern Pennsylvania    Harold J. Aurand Jr., Melissa A. Nolter, Daniel H. Vice 4. The Summit Hill Coal-Mine Fire, Pennsylvania  Daniel H. Vice, Harold Aurand, Jr., Nicole M. Andel 5. Modern and Ancient Coal Fires in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana   Edward L. Heffern, Catherine A. Riihimaki, Peter W. Reiners 6. The Occurrence and Use of Coal Cinders in Washington State William Kombol, Daniel H. Vice 7. The Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Mine Waste and Stream Effects in the El Bierzo Coalfield, Spain   Joana Ribeiro, Isabel Suárez-Ruiz, Deolinda Flores 8. Analyzing the Status of Thermal Events in Longwall Coal-Mine Gobs Jianwei Cheng 9. Gases Generated During the Low-Temperature Oxidation and Pyrolysis of Coal and the Effects on Methane-Air Flammable Limits  Zhenmin Luo, Tao Wang, Fangmin Cheng 10. Determination of the Characteristics of Coal-Spontaneous Combustion and the Danger Zone  Deng Jun, Zhao Jingyu, Xiao Yang, Zhang Yanni, Wang Caiping 11. Quantification of the Environmental Impact of Coal Fires: Xinjiang, China   Zeng Qiang, Pu Yan, Nie Jing, Cao Zhanmin 12. Colloid Technology for Preventing and Extinguishing the Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Zhai Xiaowei 13. Crystallochemical Behavior of Slag Minerals and the Occurrence of Potentially New Mineral Species from Lapanouse-de-Sévérac, France Lukasz Kruszewski, Pierre Gatel, Vincent Thiéry, Izabela Moszumańska, Danuta Kusy   14. The Burning Coal Heap of La Ricamarie, Loire Coal Basin, France Vincent Thiéry, Bernard Guy, Łukasz Kruszewski, Jean-François Carpentier 15. Burning Coal-Mine Collieries in the Jharia Coalfield of India Hartwig Gielisch, Glenn B. Stracher 16. Evidence of Human Health Impacts from Uncontrolled Coal Fires in Jharia, India Aarinola Halimah Balogun, Upasana Dhar, Robert B. Finkelman, Sukalyan  Chakraborty, Olalekan Olanipekun, Wasim Akram Shaikh, Glenn B. Stracher 17. Environmental Monitoring in the Jharia Coalfield, India: Vegetation Indices and Surface Temperature Measurements  Varinder Saini, Ravi P. Gupta, Manoj K. Arora 18. Remote Sensing Techniques for Detecting Self-Heated Hot Spots on Coal Waste Dumps in Upper Silesia, Poland Adam Nádudvari, Justyna Ciesielczuk 19. Geochemical Behavior of Trace Elements in the Upper and Lower Silesian Basin Coal-Fire Gob Piles of Poland   Lukasz Kruszewski  20. Peat Fires in Ireland Nuria Prat-Guitart, Ciaran Nugent, Enda Mullen, Fraser J.G. Mitchell, Donna Hawthorne, Claire M. Belcher, Jonathan M. Yearslsey