The Thermal History of Select Coal-Waste Dumps in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland

Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 432-462

  Misz Kennan, Magdalena ^a   Tabor, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b BAROSZ GWIMET Ltd   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coal waste; Gaseous emission; Indicators of self heating; Monitoring; Self heating; Self ignition; Waste deposition

Indexed keywords

COAL; COMBUSTION; FOG; GAS EMISSIONS; HEATING; MONITORING; WASTE INCINERATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COAL WASTES; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; SELF IGNITION; SELF-HEATING; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UPPER SILESIAN COAL BASINS; WASTE DEPOSITION;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84942795986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59509-6.00015-6     Document Type: Chapter

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