Abstract

This report addresses four problem areas associated with the siting of coal conversion plants in the five major coal bearing regions of the United States. The areas are: the proper choice of cooling and cooling water requirements in coal conversion plants; the selection of energy conservative water environmental control technologies with emphasis on the potential use of the thermosludge process for the treatment of coal conversion foul condensate wastewaters; the selection of waste disposal methods for twenty process-site combinations; and the determination of whether particular conversion processes, products and plant sizes are environmentally more suitable to one site rather than another.

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