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noungaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting

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There was a cooking demonstration, with identical meals cooked on cookers using natural gas, and coal gas. It showed the new fuel was cleaner and also cheaper.
Studying the mechanism of temperature change during coal gas desorption is of great significance for analyzing the mechanism of energy migration and transformation in coal mining.
Purified coal gas is delivered to the power station at the UCG Project at Block-V Tharparker.
Coal gas was often used in suicides, we would find the deceased lying across two or three kitchen chairs, with their head in the oven and the tap fully open.
In a statement issued here on Saturday Managing Director of UCG, Dr Mohammad Shabir said that the Sindh government allotted Block5 of Thar Coal field to UCG to generate underground coal gas known as Syn gas to produce electricity.
water lying near coal bed fired the coal underground and produced coal gas. The gas was supplied to the experimental plant and lit the flame.
Bulgarian environment protection activists protested on Wednesday against prospecting for shale and coal gas and their extraction in Bulgariaas northeastern Dobrudzha region.
"Immediately on the outbreak of war Dr W B Davidson, then engineer of Nechells Gas Works, turned his attention to this question of extracting toulene from coal gas for the manufacture of TNT, and with the approval of the Gas Committee he carried out experiments at Nechells Gas Works by washing the town gas with water gas oil which had been "pre-benzolized to the extent of five per cent, his object being to extract toulol and lower fractions, and leave the benzol fractions in the gas.
The knowledge available regarding the coal and gas outburst mechanism is still qualitative at present, and the ground stress, coal gas, and physical and mechanical properties of coal determine the formation and initiation of an outburst.
UCG involves setting fire to underground coal and harvesting the resultant gases - mainly coal gas. But protesters say tests in Australia have shown UCG wells can leak the same harmful substances into groundwater as can allegedlyt be released by fracking.
The way out of the present dismal scenario is to convert the existing power generation units from furnace oil to coal gas, which is produced through coal gasification plants.