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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Production_of_chemicals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Production of chemicals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Production_of_chemicals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Liquefaction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Liquefaction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Liquefaction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Liquefaction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gasification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gasification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Gasification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gasification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Coal_industry" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Вугаль – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Вугаль" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="कोइला – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="कोइला" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal" title="Coal – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Coal" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8A%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B0" title="Въглища – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Въглища" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugalj" title="Ugalj – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ugalj" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaou" title="Glaou – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Glaou" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carb%C3%B3" title="Carbó – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Carbó" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C4%95%D1%80_%D0%BA%C4%83%D0%BC%D1%80%C4%83%D0%BA%C4%95" title="Çĕр кăмрăкĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Çĕр кăмрăкĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhl%C3%AD" title="Uhlí – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Uhlí" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glo" title="Glo – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Glo" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kul_(bjergart)" title="Kul (bjergart) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kul (bjergart)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohl" title="Kohl – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" data-title="Kohl" data-language-autonym="Deitsch" data-language-local-name="Pennsylvania German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deitsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohle" title="Kohle – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kohle" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C3%A9k%C7%AB%CA%BC" title="Tsékǫʼ – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Tsékǫʼ" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Diné bizaad</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivis%C3%BCsi" title="Kivisüsi – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kivisüsi" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B8%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%82_(%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%BF)" title="Γαιάνθρακας (καύσιμο) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γαιάνθρακας (καύσιμο)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carb%C3%B2%E1%B9%85" title="Carbòṅ – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Carbòṅ" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carb%C3%B3n" title="Carbón – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Carbón" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbo" title="Karbo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Karbo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrikatz" title="Harrikatz – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Harrikatz" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF" title="زغال‌سنگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="زغال‌سنگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol" title="Kol – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Kol" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbon" title="Charbon – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Charbon" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cjarbon" title="Cjarbon – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="Cjarbon" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gual" title="Gual – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Gual" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gual" title="Gual – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Gual" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carb%C3%B3n" title="Carbón – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Carbón" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B2i-than" title="Mòi-than – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Mòi-than" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9D%ED%83%84" title="석탄 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="석탄" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AD" title="Ածուխ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ածուխ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="कोयला – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कोयला" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugljen" title="Ugljen – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ugljen" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbono" title="Karbono – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Karbono" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_bara" title="Batu bara – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Batu bara" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86%D0%B2%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B" title="Æвзалы – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Æвзалы" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol" title="Kol – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Kol" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbone" title="Carbone – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Carbone" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%97%D7%9D" title="פחם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="פחם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areng_watu" title="Areng watu – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Areng watu" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%81" title="ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲು – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲು" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%AE%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%AC%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A6%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98)" title="ნახშირი (წიაღისეული) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნახშირი (წიაღისეული)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D9%95%D9%86%D8%A0" title="ژٕنؠ – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="ژٕنؠ" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D3%A9%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%80" title="Көмір – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Көмір" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaa_mawe" title="Makaa mawe – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Makaa mawe" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chabon" title="Chabon – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Chabon" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D3%A9%D0%BC%D2%AF%D1%80" title="Көмүр – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Көмүр" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lbe mw-list-item"><a href="https://lbe.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83%D1%87%D3%80" title="ХъуручӀ – Lak" lang="lbe" hreflang="lbe" data-title="ХъуручӀ" data-language-autonym="Лакку" data-language-local-name="Lak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лакку</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%96%E0%BB%88%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%99%E0%BA%AB%E0%BA%B5%E0%BA%99" title="ຖ່ານຫີນ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ຖ່ານຫີນ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbo" title="Carbo – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Carbo" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akme%C5%86ogles" title="Akmeņogles – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Akmeņogles" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmens_anglis" title="Akmens anglis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Akmens anglis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Carbon" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjteekoal" title="Sjteekoal – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Sjteekoal" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbun" title="Carbun – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Carbun" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%91sz%C3%A9n" title="Kőszén – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kőszén" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Јаглен – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Јаглен" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arintany" title="Arintany – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Arintany" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BD%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF" title="കൽക്കരി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="കൽക്കരി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE" title="कोळसा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="कोळसा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arang_batu" title="Arang batu – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Arang batu" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D2%AF%D2%AF%D1%80%D1%81" title="Нүүрс – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Нүүрс" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8" title="ကျောက်မီးသွေး – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ကျောက်မီးသွေး" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teconalli" title="Teconalli – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="Teconalli" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenkool" title="Steenkool – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Steenkool" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="कोइला – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="कोइला" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE" title="ह्यंग्वा – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="ह्यंग्वा" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E7%82%AD" title="石炭 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="石炭" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6%C3%B6l" title="Kööl – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Kööl" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull" title="Kull – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kull" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol" title="Kol – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Kol" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Carbon" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%CA%BBmir" title="Koʻmir – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Koʻmir" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE" title="ਕੋਲਾ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕੋਲਾ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7" title="کوئلا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="کوئلا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%89%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87" title="ډبرين سکاره – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ډبرين سکاره" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcd mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon – Picard" lang="pcd" hreflang="pcd" data-title="Carbon" data-language-autonym="Picard" data-language-local-name="Picard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Picard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%99gle_kopalne" title="Węgle kopalne – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Węgle kopalne" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carv%C3%A3o_mineral" title="Carvão mineral – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Carvão mineral" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83rbune" title="Cărbune – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Cărbune" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27illimsa" title="K&#039;illimsa – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="K&#039;illimsa" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%8F" title="Угля – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Угля" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Ископаемый уголь – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ископаемый уголь" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%81_%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%85" title="Таас чох – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Таас чох" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qymyri" title="Qymyri – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Qymyri" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cravuni" title="Cravuni – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Cravuni" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal" title="Coal – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Coal" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlie" title="Uhlie – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Uhlie" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premog" title="Premog – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Premog" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhuxul_Dhagax" title="Dhuxul Dhagax – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Dhuxul Dhagax" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%DB%95%DA%B5%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B2" title="خەڵووز – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="خەڵووز" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%99" title="Угаљ – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Угаљ" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugljen" title="Ugljen – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Ugljen" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batubara" title="Batubara – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Batubara" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivihiili" title="Kivihiili – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Kivihiili" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_(br%C3%A4nsle)" title="Kol (bränsle) – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Kol (bränsle)" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbon_(bato)" title="Karbon (bato) – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Karbon (bato)" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF" title="நிலக்கரி – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="நிலக்கரி" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81" title="బొగ్గు – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="బొగ్గు" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%96%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99" title="ถ่านหิน – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ถ่านหิน" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%82" title="Ангишт – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Ангишт" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chy mw-list-item"><a href="https://chy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%27ose" title="Ho&#039;ose – Cheyenne" lang="chy" hreflang="chy" data-title="Ho&#039;ose" data-language-autonym="Tsetsêhestâhese" data-language-local-name="Cheyenne" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tsetsêhestâhese</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6m%C3%BCr" title="Kömür – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Kömür" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%8F" title="Вугілля – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Вугілля" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84%DB%81" title="کوئلہ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="کوئلہ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Carbon" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Than_%C4%91%C3%A1" title="Than đá – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Than đá" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoye" title="Hoye – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="Hoye" data-language-autonym="Walon" 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href="/wiki/Anthracite" title="Anthracite">Anthracite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal">Bituminous coal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">Charcoal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_combustion_products" title="Coal combustion products">Coal combustion products</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station" title="Coal-fired power station">Coal-fired power station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_gas" title="Coal gas">Coal gas</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Coal in</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Australia" title="Coal in Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Canada" title="Coal in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Europe" title="Coal in Europe">Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_India" title="Coal in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Poland" title="Coal in Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Russia" title="Coal in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_South_Africa" title="Coal in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Turkey" title="Coal in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Ukraine" title="Coal in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">Coal mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining_in_Chile" title="Coal mining in Chile">in Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Coal mining in the United Kingdom">in the UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_States" title="Coal mining in the United States">in the USA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal-mining_region" title="Coal-mining region">Coal-mining region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station" title="Coal-fired power station">Coal power</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coal_power_in_China" title="Coal power in China">in China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States" title="Coal power in the United States">in the USA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_preparation_plant" title="Coal preparation plant">Coal preparation plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_tar" title="Coal tar">Coal tar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coke_(fuel)" title="Coke (fuel)">Coke (fuel)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coking" title="Coking">Coking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metallurgical_coal" title="Metallurgical coal">Metallurgical coal</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Externalities</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ash_pond" title="Ash pond">Ash pond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asian_brown_cloud" title="Asian brown cloud">Asian brown cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asthma" title="Asthma">Asthma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackdamp" title="Blackdamp">Blackdamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_lung_disease" title="Black lung disease">Black lung disease</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_dust" title="Coal dust">Coal dust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Coal_mining_disasters_in_the_United_States" title="Category:Coal mining disasters in the United States">Coal mining disasters in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_refuse" title="Coal refuse">Coal refuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_slurry" title="Coal slurry">Coal slurry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues" title="Environmental issues">Environmental problems involving</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Appalachia" title="Environmental issues in Appalachia">Appalachia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_effects_of_coal_ash" title="Health effects of coal ash">coal ash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_justice_and_coal_mining_in_Appalachia" title="Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia">coal mining in Appalachia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions" title="Greenhouse gas emissions">Greenhouse gas emissions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry" title="Health and environmental impact of the coal industry">human health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NOx" title="NOx">NOx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smog" title="Smog">smog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smoke" title="Smoke">smoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide" title="Sulfur dioxide">sulfur dioxide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_petroleum_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental impact of the petroleum industry">the petroleum industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toxic_heavy_metal" title="Toxic heavy metal">toxic heavy metals</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firedamp" title="Firedamp">Firedamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide" title="Hydrogen sulfide">Hydrosulfuric acid</a></li> <li><a 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Coal_sidebar" title="Template:Coal sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Coal_sidebar" title="Template talk:Coal sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Coal_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Coal sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Coal</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Combustible" class="mw-redirect" title="Combustible">combustible</a> black or brownish-black <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_rock" title="Sedimentary rock">sedimentary rock</a>, formed as <a href="/wiki/Stratum" title="Stratum">rock strata</a> called <a href="/wiki/Coal_seams" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal seams">coal seams</a>. Coal is mostly <a href="/wiki/Carbon" title="Carbon">carbon</a> with variable amounts of other <a href="/wiki/Chemical_element" title="Chemical element">elements</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen" title="Hydrogen">hydrogen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sulfur" title="Sulfur">sulfur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nitrogen" title="Nitrogen">nitrogen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal is a type of <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuel</a>, formed when dead <a href="/wiki/Plant_matter" class="mw-redirect" title="Plant matter">plant matter</a> decays into <a href="/wiki/Peat" title="Peat">peat</a> which is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years.<sup id="cite_ref-EIA_Coal_Explained_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA_Coal_Explained-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Vast deposits of coal originate in former <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetlands</a> called <a href="/wiki/Coal_forest" title="Coal forest">coal forests</a> that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pennsylvanian_(geology)" title="Pennsylvanian (geology)">Pennsylvanian</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">Permian</a> times.<sup id="cite_ref-ClealThomas2005_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ClealThomas2005-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coal is used primarily as a fuel. While coal has been known and used for thousands of years, its usage was limited until the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>. With the invention of the <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engine</a>, coal consumption increased.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2020, coal supplied about a quarter of the world's <a href="/wiki/Primary_energy" title="Primary energy">primary energy</a> and over a third of its <a href="/wiki/Electricity_generation" title="Electricity generation">electricity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IEAstats2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEAstats2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steel" title="Steel">steel</a>-making and other industrial processes burn coal. </p><p>The extraction and burning of coal <a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental impact of the coal industry">damages the environment</a>, causing premature death and illness,<sup id="cite_ref-Heal_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heal-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and it is the largest <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthropogenic" class="extiw" title="wikt:anthropogenic">anthropogenic</a> source of <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a> contributing to <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>. Fourteen billion tonnes of carbon dioxide were emitted by burning coal in 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-cebf_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cebf-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which is 40% of total fossil fuel emissions<sup id="cite_ref-phys2018_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phys2018-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and over 25% of total global <a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions" title="Greenhouse gas emissions">greenhouse gas emissions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As part of worldwide <a href="/wiki/Energy_transition" title="Energy transition">energy transition</a>, many countries have <a href="/wiki/Coal_phase-out" title="Coal phase-out">reduced or eliminated their use of coal power</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary_General" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Secretary General">United Nations Secretary General</a> asked governments to stop building new <a href="/wiki/Coal_plants" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal plants">coal plants</a> by 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Global coal use was 8.3 billion tonnes in 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-record_levels_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-record_levels-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and is set to remain at record levels in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-iea_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iea-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To meet the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a> target of keeping <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> below 2&#160;°C (3.6&#160;°F) <a href="/wiki/Coal_phase-out" title="Coal phase-out">coal use needs to halve</a> from 2020 to 2030,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and "phasing down" coal was agreed upon in the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Climate_Pact" title="Glasgow Climate Pact">Glasgow Climate Pact</a>. </p><p>The largest consumer and importer of coal in 2020 was <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_China" title="Coal in China">China</a>, which accounts for almost half the world's annual coal production, followed by <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_India" title="Coal in India">India</a> with about a tenth. <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Indonesia#Coal" title="Energy in Indonesia">Indonesia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Australia" title="Coal in Australia">Australia</a> export the most, followed by <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Russia" title="Coal in Russia">Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Overland-2023_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Overland-2023-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> <p>The word originally took the form <i>col</i> in <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a>, from reconstructed <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</a> *<i>kula</i>(<i>n</i>), from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Indo-European">Proto-Indo-European</a> root *<i>g</i>(<i>e</i>)<i>u-lo-</i> "live coal".<sup id="cite_ref-etym_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etym-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic</a> cognates include the <a href="/wiki/Old_Frisian" title="Old Frisian">Old Frisian</a> <span title="Old Frisian-language text"><i lang="ofs">kole</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch" title="Middle Dutch">Middle Dutch</a> <span title="Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)-language text"><i lang="dum">cole</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">kool</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> <span title="Old High German (ca. 750-1050)-language text"><i lang="goh">chol</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Kohle</i></span> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">kol</i></span>. <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">gual</i></span> is also a cognate via the Indo-European root.<sup id="cite_ref-etym_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etym-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation_of_coal">Formation of coal</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg/220px-Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg/330px-Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg/440px-Struktura_chemiczna_w%C4%99gla_kamiennego.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Example chemical structure of coal</figcaption></figure> <p>The conversion of dead vegetation into coal is called <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coalification" class="extiw" title="wikt:coalification">coalification</a>. At various times in the geologic past, the Earth had dense forests<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in low-lying areas. In these wetlands, the process of coalification began when dead plant matter was protected from <a href="/wiki/Oxidation" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxidation">oxidation</a>, usually by mud or acidic water, and was converted into <a href="/wiki/Peat" title="Peat">peat</a>. The resulting <a href="/wiki/Peat_bog" class="mw-redirect" title="Peat bog">peat bogs</a>, which trapped immense amounts of carbon, were eventually deeply buried by sediments. Then, over millions of years, the heat and pressure of deep burial caused the loss of water, methane and carbon dioxide and increased the proportion of carbon.<sup id="cite_ref-BGS_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BGS-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The grade of coal produced depended on the maximum pressure and temperature reached, with <a href="/wiki/Lignite" title="Lignite">lignite</a> (also called "brown coal") produced under relatively mild conditions, and <a href="/wiki/Sub-bituminous_coal" title="Sub-bituminous coal">sub-bituminous coal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal">bituminous coal</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Anthracite" title="Anthracite">anthracite coal</a> (also called "hard coal" or "black coal") produced in turn with increasing temperature and pressure.<sup id="cite_ref-EIA_Coal_Explained_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA_Coal_Explained-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the factors involved in coalification, temperature is much more important than either pressure or time of burial.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Subbituminous coal can form at temperatures as low as 35 to 80&#160;°C (95 to 176&#160;°F) while anthracite requires a temperature of at least 180 to 245&#160;°C (356 to 473&#160;°F).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although coal is known from most geologic <a href="/wiki/Period_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Period (geology)">periods</a>, 90% of all coal beds were deposited in the <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous</a> and <a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">Permian</a> periods.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Paradoxically, this was during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Paleozoic_icehouse" title="Late Paleozoic icehouse">Late Paleozoic icehouse</a>, a time of global <a href="/wiki/Ice_age" title="Ice age">glaciation</a>. However, the drop in global sea level accompanying the glaciation exposed <a href="/wiki/Continental_shelf" title="Continental shelf">continental shelves</a> that had previously been submerged, and to these were added wide <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">river deltas</a> produced by increased <a href="/wiki/Erosion" title="Erosion">erosion</a> due to the drop in <a href="/wiki/Base_level" title="Base level">base level</a>. These widespread areas of wetlands provided ideal conditions for coal formation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201888–92_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201888–92-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The rapid formation of coal ended with the <a href="/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event#Coal_Gap" title="Permian–Triassic extinction event">coal gap</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event" title="Permian–Triassic extinction event">Permian–Triassic extinction event</a>, where coal is rare.<sup id="cite_ref-Retallack1996_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Retallack1996-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Favorable geography alone does not explain the extensive Carboniferous coal beds.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201899_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201899-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other factors contributing to rapid coal deposition were high <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a> levels, above 30%, that promoted intense <a href="/wiki/Wildfire" title="Wildfire">wildfires</a> and formation of <a href="/wiki/Charcoal" title="Charcoal">charcoal</a> that was all but indigestible by decomposing organisms; high <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a> levels that promoted plant growth; and the nature of Carboniferous forests, which included <a href="/wiki/Lycophyte" title="Lycophyte">lycophyte</a> trees whose <a href="/wiki/Determinate_growth" class="mw-redirect" title="Determinate growth">determinate growth</a> meant that carbon was not tied up in <a href="/wiki/Heartwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Heartwood">heartwood</a> of living trees for long periods.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201898–102_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGhee201898–102-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One theory suggested that about 360 million years ago, some plants evolved the ability to produce <a href="/wiki/Lignin" title="Lignin">lignin</a>, a complex polymer that made their <a href="/wiki/Cellulose" title="Cellulose">cellulose</a> stems much harder and more woody. The ability to produce lignin led to the evolution of the first <a href="/wiki/Trees" class="mw-redirect" title="Trees">trees</a>. But bacteria and fungi did not immediately evolve the ability to decompose lignin, so the wood did not fully decay but became buried under sediment, eventually turning into coal. About 300 million years ago, mushrooms and other fungi developed this ability, ending the main coal-formation period of earth's history.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although some authors pointed at some evidence of lignin degradation during the Carboniferous, and suggested that climatic and tectonic factors were a more plausible explanation,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> reconstruction of ancestral enzymes by phylogenetic analysis corroborated a hypothesis that lignin degrading enzymes appeared in fungi approximately 200 MYa.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One likely tectonic factor was the <a href="/wiki/Central_Pangean_Mountains" title="Central Pangean Mountains">Central Pangean Mountains</a>, an enormous range running along the equator that reached its greatest elevation near this time. Climate modeling suggests that the Central Pangean Mountains contributed to the deposition of vast quantities of coal in the late Carboniferous. The mountains created an area of year-round heavy precipitation, with no dry season typical of a <a href="/wiki/Monsoon" title="Monsoon">monsoon</a> climate. This is necessary for the preservation of peat in coal swamps.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coal is known from <a href="/wiki/Precambrian" title="Precambrian">Precambrian</a> strata, which predate land plants. This coal is presumed to have originated from residues of algae.<sup id="cite_ref-Tyler1957_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tyler1957-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mancuso1981_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mancuso1981-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sometimes coal seams (also known as coal beds) are interbedded with other sediments in a <a href="/wiki/Cyclothem" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclothem">cyclothem</a>. Cyclothems are thought to have their origin in <a href="/wiki/Glacial_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Glacial cycle">glacial cycles</a> that produced fluctuations in <a href="/wiki/Sea_level" title="Sea level">sea level</a>, which alternately exposed and then flooded large areas of continental shelf.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chemistry_of_coalification">Chemistry of coalification</h3></div> <p>The woody tissue of plants is composed mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Modern peat is mostly lignin, with a content of cellulose and hemicellulose ranging from 5% to 40%. Various other organic compounds, such as waxes and nitrogen- and sulfur-containing compounds, are also present.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Lignin has a weight composition of about 54% carbon, 6% hydrogen, and 30% oxygen, while cellulose has a weight composition of about 44% carbon, 6% hydrogen, and 49% oxygen. Bituminous coal has a composition of about 84.4% carbon, 5.4% hydrogen, 6.7% oxygen, 1.7% nitrogen, and 1.8% sulfur, on a weight basis.<sup id="cite_ref-Perry_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perry-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The low oxygen content of coal shows that coalification removed most of the oxygen and much of the hydrogen a process called <i>carbonization</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Carbonization proceeds primarily by <a href="/wiki/Dehydration_reaction" title="Dehydration reaction">dehydration</a>, <a href="/wiki/Decarboxylation" title="Decarboxylation">decarboxylation</a>, and demethanation. Dehydration removes water molecules from the maturing coal via reactions such as<sup id="cite_ref-hatcher-etal-1992_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hatcher-etal-1992-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>2 R–OH → R–O–R + H<sub>2</sub>O</dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Decarboxylation" title="Decarboxylation">Decarboxylation</a> removes carbon dioxide from the maturing coal:<sup id="cite_ref-hatcher-etal-1992_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hatcher-etal-1992-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>RCOOH → RH + CO<sub>2</sub></dd></dl> <p>while demethanation proceeds by reaction such as </p> <dl><dd>2 R-CH<sub>3</sub> → R-CH<sub>2</sub>-R + CH<sub>4</sub></dd> <dd>R-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>-CH<sub>2</sub>-R → R-CH=CH-R + CH<sub>4</sub></dd></dl> <p>In these formulas, R represents the remainder of a cellulose or lignin molecule to which the reacting groups are attached. </p><p>Dehydration and decarboxylation take place early in coalification, while demethanation begins only after the coal has already reached bituminous rank.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The effect of decarboxylation is to reduce the percentage of oxygen, while demethanation reduces the percentage of hydrogen. Dehydration does both, and (together with demethanation) reduces the saturation of the carbon backbone (increasing the number of double bonds between carbon). </p><p>As carbonization proceeds, <a href="/wiki/Aliphatic_compound" title="Aliphatic compound">aliphatic compounds</a> convert to <a href="/wiki/Aromatic_compound" title="Aromatic compound">aromatic compounds</a>. Similarly, aromatic rings fuse into <a href="/wiki/Polyaromatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyaromatic">polyaromatic</a> compounds (linked rings of carbon atoms).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The structure increasingly resembles <a href="/wiki/Graphene" title="Graphene">graphene</a>, the structural element of graphite. </p><p>Chemical changes are accompanied by physical changes, such as decrease in average pore size.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Macerals">Macerals</h3></div> <p>Macerals are coalified plant parts that retain the morphology and some properties of the original plant. In many coals, individual macerals can be identified visually. Some macerals include:<sup id="cite_ref-KO_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KO-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>vitrinite, derived from woody parts</li> <li>lipinite, derived from spores and algae</li> <li>inertite, derived from woody parts that had been burnt in prehistoric times</li> <li>huminite, a precursor to vitrinite.</li></ul> <p>In coalification huminite is replaced by vitreous (shiny) <i>vitrinite</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maturation of bituminous coal is characterized by <i>bitumenization</i>, in which part of the coal is converted to <a href="/wiki/Bitumen" title="Bitumen">bitumen</a>, a hydrocarbon-rich gel.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Maturation to anthracite is characterized by <i>debitumenization</i> (from demethanation) and the increasing tendency of the anthracite to break with a <a href="/wiki/Conchoidal_fracture" title="Conchoidal fracture">conchoidal fracture</a>, similar to the way thick glass breaks.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Ranks"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Types">Types</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG/220px-Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG/330px-Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG/440px-Sydney_Mines_Point_Aconi_Seam_038.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="2016" /></a><figcaption>Coastal exposure of the Point Aconi Seam in <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coal_Rank_USGS.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Coal_Rank_USGS.png/300px-Coal_Rank_USGS.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Coal_Rank_USGS.png/450px-Coal_Rank_USGS.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Coal_Rank_USGS.png/600px-Coal_Rank_USGS.png 2x" data-file-width="2132" data-file-height="2665" /></a><figcaption>Coal ranking system used by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a></figcaption></figure> <p>As geological processes apply <a href="/wiki/Pressure" title="Pressure">pressure</a> to dead <a href="/wiki/Biotic_material" title="Biotic material">biotic material</a> over time, under suitable conditions, its <a href="/wiki/Metamorphic_grade" class="mw-redirect" title="Metamorphic grade">metamorphic grade</a> or rank increases successively into: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peat" title="Peat">Peat</a>, a precursor of coal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lignite" title="Lignite">Lignite</a>, or brown coal, the lowest rank of coal, most harmful to health when burned,<sup id="cite_ref-Heal_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heal-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> used almost exclusively as fuel for electric power generation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sub-bituminous_coal" title="Sub-bituminous coal">Sub-bituminous coal</a>, whose properties range between those of lignite and those of bituminous coal, is used primarily as fuel for steam-electric power generation.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal">Bituminous coal</a>, a dense sedimentary rock, usually black, but sometimes dark brown, often with well-defined bands of bright and dull material. It is used primarily as fuel in steam-electric power generation and to make <a href="/wiki/Coke_(fuel)" title="Coke (fuel)">coke</a>. Known as steam coal in the UK, and historically used to raise steam in steam locomotives and ships</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthracite" title="Anthracite">Anthracite coal</a>, the highest rank of coal, is a harder, glossy black coal used primarily for residential and commercial <a href="/wiki/Space_heating" class="mw-redirect" title="Space heating">space heating</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graphite" title="Graphite">Graphite</a>, a difficult to ignite coal which is mostly used in pencils, or powdered for <a href="/wiki/Lubrication" title="Lubrication">lubrication</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannel_coal" title="Cannel coal">Cannel coal</a> (sometimes called "candle coal"), a variety of fine-grained, high-rank coal with significant hydrogen content, which consists primarily of <a href="/wiki/Liptinite" title="Liptinite">liptinite</a>. It is related to boghead coal.</li></ul> <p>There are several international standards for coal.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The classification of coal is generally based on the content of <a href="/wiki/Coal_volatiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal volatiles">volatiles</a>. However the most important distinction is between thermal coal (also known as steam coal), which is burnt to generate electricity via steam; and <a href="/wiki/Metallurgical_coal" title="Metallurgical coal">metallurgical coal</a> (also known as coking coal), which is burnt at high temperature to make <a href="/wiki/Steel" title="Steel">steel</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hilt%27s_law" title="Hilt&#39;s law">Hilt's law</a> is a geological observation that (within a small area) the deeper the coal is found, the higher its rank (or grade). It applies if the thermal gradient is entirely vertical; however, <a href="/wiki/Metamorphism" title="Metamorphism">metamorphism</a> may cause lateral changes of rank, irrespective of depth. For example, some of the coal seams of the <a href="/wiki/Madrid,_New_Mexico" title="Madrid, New Mexico">Madrid, New Mexico</a> coal field were partially converted to anthracite by <a href="/wiki/Contact_metamorphism" class="mw-redirect" title="Contact metamorphism">contact metamorphism</a> from an igneous <a href="/wiki/Sill_(geology)" title="Sill (geology)">sill</a> while the remainder of the seams remained as bituminous coal.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_coal_mining" title="History of coal mining">History of coal mining</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tiangong_Kaiwu_Coal_Mining.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Tiangong_Kaiwu_Coal_Mining.gif/170px-Tiangong_Kaiwu_Coal_Mining.gif" decoding="async" width="170" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Tiangong_Kaiwu_Coal_Mining.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="212" data-file-height="330" /></a><figcaption>Chinese coal miners in an illustration of the <i>Tiangong Kaiwu</i> encyclopedia, published in 1637</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest recognized use is from the <a href="/wiki/Shenyang" title="Shenyang">Shenyang</a> area of China where by 4000 BC <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> inhabitants had begun carving ornaments from black lignite.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal from the <a href="/wiki/Fushun" title="Fushun">Fushun</a> mine in northeastern China was used to smelt <a href="/wiki/Copper" title="Copper">copper</a> as early as 1000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo">Marco Polo</a>, the Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century, described coal as "black stones&#160;... which burn like logs", and said coal was so plentiful, people could take three hot baths a week.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Europe, the earliest reference to the use of coal as fuel is from the geological treatise <i>On Stones</i> (Lap. 16) by the Greek scientist <a href="/wiki/Theophrastus" title="Theophrastus">Theophrastus</a> (c. 371–287 BC):<sup id="cite_ref-Mattusch_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattusch-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Among the materials that are dug because they are useful, those known as <i>anthrakes</i> [coals] are made of earth, and, once set on fire, they burn like charcoal [anthrakes]. They are found in Liguria&#160;... and in Elis as one approaches Olympia by the mountain road; and they are used by those who work in metals.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Theophrastus, On Stones (16) <sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p><span class="anchor" id="outcrop_coal"></span><a href="/wiki/Outcrop" title="Outcrop">Outcrop</a> coal was used in Britain during the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> (3000–2000 BC), where it formed part of <a href="/wiki/Funeral" title="Funeral">funeral</a> <a href="/wiki/Pyre" title="Pyre">pyres</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannicacoal_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannicacoal-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a>, with the exception of two modern fields, "the <a href="/wiki/Mining_in_Roman_Britain" title="Mining in Roman Britain">Romans</a> were exploiting coals in all the major coalfields in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> by the end of the second century AD".<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_1997,_322–324_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_1997,_322–324-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Evidence of trade in coal, dated to about AD 200, has been found at the <a href="/wiki/Heronbridge_Roman_Site" title="Heronbridge Roman Site">Roman settlement at Heronbridge</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Chester" title="Chester">Chester</a>; and in the <a href="/wiki/The_Fens" title="The Fens">Fenlands</a> of <a href="/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia">East Anglia</a>, where coal from the <a href="/wiki/English_Midlands" class="mw-redirect" title="English Midlands">Midlands</a> was transported via the <a href="/wiki/Car_Dyke" title="Car Dyke">Car Dyke</a> for use in drying grain.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal cinders have been found in the hearths of <a href="/wiki/Roman_villa" title="Roman villa">villas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_forts" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman forts">Roman forts</a>, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a>, dated to around AD 400. In the west of England, contemporary writers described the wonder of a permanent brazier of coal on the altar of <a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a> at <a href="/wiki/Aquae_Sulis" title="Aquae Sulis">Aquae Sulis</a> (modern day <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a>), although in fact easily accessible surface coal from what became the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_coalfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset coalfield">Somerset coalfield</a> was in common use in quite lowly dwellings locally.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Evidence of coal's use for <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a>-working in the city during the Roman period has been found.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Eschweiler" title="Eschweiler">Eschweiler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhineland" title="Rhineland">Rhineland</a>, deposits of <a href="/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal">bituminous coal</a> were used by the Romans for the smelting of <a href="/wiki/Iron_ore" title="Iron ore">iron ore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_1997,_322–324_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_1997,_322–324-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face,_Britain,_1942_D8263.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg/220px-Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg/330px-Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg/440px-Men_of_the_Mine-_Life_at_the_Coal_Face%2C_Britain%2C_1942_D8263.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>Coal miner in Britain, 1942</figcaption></figure> <p><span class="anchor" id="Sea_coal"></span> No evidence exists of coal being of great importance in Britain before about AD 1000, the <a href="/wiki/High_Middle_Ages" title="High Middle Ages">High Middle Ages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TCC_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCC-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal came to be referred to as "seacoal" in the 13th century; the wharf where the material arrived in London was known as Seacoal Lane, so identified in a charter of <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">King Henry III</a> granted in 1253.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Initially, the name was given because much coal was found on the shore, having fallen from the exposed coal seams on cliffs above or washed out of underwater coal outcrops,<sup id="cite_ref-TCC_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCC-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but by the time of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>, it was understood to derive from the way it was carried to London by sea.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1257–1259, coal from <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> was shipped to London for the <a href="/wiki/Metalsmith" title="Metalsmith">smiths</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lime_(material)" title="Lime (material)">lime</a>-burners building <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TCC_64-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCC-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Seacoal Lane and Newcastle Lane, where coal was unloaded at wharves along the <a href="/wiki/River_Fleet" title="River Fleet">River Fleet</a>, still exist.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>These easily accessible sources had largely become exhausted (or could not meet the growing demand) by the 13th century, when underground extraction by <a href="/wiki/Shaft_mining" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaft mining">shaft mining</a> or <a href="/wiki/Adit" title="Adit">adits</a> was developed.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannicacoal_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannicacoal-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The alternative name was "pitcoal", because it came from mines. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_(135852999).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg/220px-The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg/330px-The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg/440px-The_Harmsworth_atlas_and_Gazetter_1908_%28135852999%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6371" data-file-height="9573" /></a><figcaption>Coal production of the world in 1908 as presented by <i>The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetter</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Cooking and home heating with coal (in addition to firewood or instead of it) has been done in various times and places throughout human history, especially in times and places where ground-surface coal was available and firewood was scarce, but a widespread reliance on coal for home hearths probably never existed until such a switch in fuels happened in London in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-Goodman-2020_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goodman-2020-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Goodman_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruth Goodman (historian)">Ruth Goodman</a> has traced the socioeconomic effects of that switch and its later spread throughout Britain<sup id="cite_ref-Goodman-2020_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goodman-2020-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and suggested that its importance in shaping the industrial adoption of coal has been previously underappreciated.<sup id="cite_ref-Goodman-2020_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goodman-2020-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: xiv–xix">&#58;&#8202;xiv–xix&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>The development of the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> led to the large-scale use of coal, as the <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engine</a> took over from the <a href="/wiki/Water_wheel" title="Water wheel">water wheel</a>. In 1700, five-sixths of the world's coal was mined in Britain. Britain would have run out of suitable sites for watermills by the 1830s if coal had not been available as a source of energy.<sup id="cite_ref-Wrigley_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wrigley-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1947 there were some 750,000 miners in Britain,<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the last deep coal mine in the UK closed in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A grade between bituminous coal and anthracite was once known as "steam coal" as it was widely used as a fuel for <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotive" title="Steam locomotive">steam locomotives</a>. In this specialized use, it is sometimes known as "sea coal" in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Small "steam coal", also called <i>dry small steam nuts</i> (DSSN), was used as a fuel for domestic <a href="/wiki/Water_heating" title="Water heating">water heating</a>. </p><p>Coal played an important role in industry in the 19th and 20th century. The predecessor of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, the <a href="/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community" title="European Coal and Steel Community">European Coal and Steel Community</a>, was based on the trading of this commodity.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coal continues to arrive on beaches around the world from both natural erosion of exposed coal seams and windswept spills from cargo ships. Many homes in such areas gather this coal as a significant, and sometimes primary, source of home heating fuel.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition">Composition</h2></div> <p>Coal consists mainly of a black mixture of diverse organic compounds and polymers. Of course, several kinds of coals exist, with variable dark colors and variable compositions. Young coals (brown coal, lignite) are not black. The two main black coals are bituminous, which is more abundant, and anthracite. The&#160;% carbon in coal follows the order anthracite &gt; bituminous &gt; lignite &gt; brown coal. The fuel value of coal varies in the same order. Some anthracite deposits contain pure carbon in the form of <a href="/wiki/Graphite" title="Graphite">graphite</a>. </p><p>For bituminous coal, the elemental composition on a dry, ash-free basis of 84.4% carbon, 5.4% hydrogen, 6.7% oxygen, 1.7% nitrogen, and 1.8% sulfur, on a weight basis.<sup id="cite_ref-Perry_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perry-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This composition reflects partly the composition of the precursor plants. The second main fraction of coal is ash, an undesirable, noncombustable mixture of inorganic minerals. The composition of ash is often discussed in terms of oxides obtained after combustion in air: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Ash composition, weight percent </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1123817410">.mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su{display:inline-block;font-size:80%;line-height:1;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output .template-chem2-su>span{display:block;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output sub.template-chem2-sub{font-size:80%;vertical-align:-0.35em}.mw-parser-output sup.template-chem2-sup{font-size:80%;vertical-align:0.65em}</style><span class="chemf nowrap">SiO<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span></td> <td>20–40 </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">Al<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>O<sub class="template-chem2-sub">3</sub></span></td> <td>10–35 </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">Fe<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>O<sub class="template-chem2-sub">3</sub></span></td> <td>5–35 </td></tr> <tr> <td>CaO</td> <td>1–20 </td></tr> <tr> <td>MgO</td> <td>0.3–4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">TiO<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span></td> <td>0.5–2.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">Na<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>O</span> &amp; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">K<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>O</span></td> <td>1–4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">SO<sub class="template-chem2-sub">3</sub></span></td> <td>0.1–12<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Of particular interest is the sulfur content of coal, which can vary from less than 1% to as much as 4%. Most of the sulfur and most of the nitrogen is incorporated into the organic fraction in the form of <a href="/wiki/Organosulfur_compound" class="mw-redirect" title="Organosulfur compound">organosulfur compounds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heterocycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterocycle">organonitrogen compounds</a>. This sulfur and nitrogen are <a href="/wiki/Covalent_bond" title="Covalent bond">strongly bound</a> within the hydrocarbon matrix. These elements are released as SO<sub>2</sub> and NO<sub>x</sub> upon combustion. They cannot be removed, economically at least, otherwise. Some coals contain inorganic sulfur, mainly in the form of <a href="/wiki/Iron_pyrite" class="mw-redirect" title="Iron pyrite">iron pyrite</a> (FeS<sub>2</sub>). Being a dense mineral, it can be removed from coal by mechanical means, e.g. by <a href="/wiki/Froth_flotation" title="Froth flotation">froth flotation</a>. Some sulfate occurs in coal, especially weathered samples. It is not volatilized and can be removed by washing.<sup id="cite_ref-KO_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KO-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Minor components include: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Average content </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Substance</th> <th>Content </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(element)" title="Mercury (element)">Mercury</a> (Hg) </td> <td align="right"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6999100000000000000♠"></span>0.10<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.01&#160;<a href="/wiki/Parts-per_notation" title="Parts-per notation">ppm</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-lab_hg_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lab_hg-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">Arsenic</a> (As) </td> <td align="right"><span class="nowrap">1.4–71 <a href="/wiki/Parts-per_notation" title="Parts-per notation">ppm</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-usgs_fs2005_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usgs_fs2005-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Selenium" title="Selenium">Selenium</a> (Se) </td> <td align="right"><span class="nowrap">3 <a href="/wiki/Parts-per_notation" title="Parts-per notation">ppm</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-acs_env_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acs_env-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As minerals, Hg, As, and Se are not problematic to the environment, especially since they are only trace components. They become however mobile (volatile or water-soluble) when these minerals are combusted. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses">Uses</h2></div> <p>Most coal is used as fuel. 27.6% of world energy was supplied by coal in 2017 and Asia used almost three-quarters of it.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other large-scale applications also exist. The <a href="/wiki/Energy_density" title="Energy density">energy density</a> of coal is roughly 24 <a href="/wiki/Megajoule" class="mw-redirect" title="Megajoule">megajoules</a> per kilogram<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (approximately 6.7 <a href="/wiki/Kilowatt-hours" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilowatt-hours">kilowatt-hours</a> per kg). For a coal power plant with a 40% efficiency, it takes an estimated 325&#160;kg (717&#160;lb) of coal to power a 100&#160;W lightbulb for one year.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electricity_generation">Electricity generation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station" title="Coal-fired power station">Coal-fired power station</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castle_Gate_Power_Plant,_Utah_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg/220px-Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg/330px-Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg/440px-Castle_Gate_Power_Plant%2C_Utah_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2293" data-file-height="1439" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Castle_Gate_Power_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Castle Gate Power Plant">Castle Gate Power Plant</a> near Helper, Utah, US</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg/220px-Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg/330px-Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg/440px-Ashtabulacoalcars_e2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="897" data-file-height="634" /></a><figcaption>Coal rail cars</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_(winter_2017).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg/220px-Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg/330px-Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg/440px-Komatsu_bulldozer_pushing_coal_in_Power_plant_Ljubljana_%28winter_2017%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4296" data-file-height="2352" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bulldozer" title="Bulldozer">Bulldozer</a> pushing coal in <a href="/wiki/Ljubljana_Power_Station" title="Ljubljana Power Station">Ljubljana Power Station</a>, Slovenia</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2022, 68% of global coal use was used for electricity generation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 11">&#58;&#8202;11&#8202;</span></sup> Coal burnt in <a href="/wiki/List_of_coal_power_stations" class="mw-redirect" title="List of coal power stations">coal power stations</a> to <a href="/wiki/Electricity_generation" title="Electricity generation">generate electricity</a> is called <b>thermal coal</b>. It is usually pulverized and then burned in a furnace with a <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boiler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Coal_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Coal-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The furnace heat converts boiler water to <a href="/wiki/Steam" title="Steam">steam</a>, which is then used to spin <a href="/wiki/Turbine" title="Turbine">turbines</a> which turn <a href="/wiki/Electrical_generator" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical generator">generators</a> and create electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Thermodynamic_efficiency" class="mw-redirect" title="Thermodynamic efficiency">thermodynamic efficiency</a> of this process varies between about 25% and 50% depending on the pre-combustion treatment, turbine technology (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Supercritical_steam_generator" title="Supercritical steam generator">supercritical steam generator</a>) and the age of the plant.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A few <a href="/wiki/Integrated_gasification_combined_cycle" title="Integrated gasification combined cycle">integrated gasification combined cycle</a> (IGCC) power plants have been built, which burn coal more efficiently. Instead of pulverizing the coal and burning it directly as fuel in the steam-generating boiler, the <a href="/wiki/Coal_gasification" title="Coal gasification">coal is gasified</a> to create <a href="/wiki/Syngas" title="Syngas">syngas</a>, which is burned in a <a href="/wiki/Gas_turbine" title="Gas turbine">gas turbine</a> to produce electricity (just like natural gas is burned in a turbine). Hot exhaust gases from the turbine are used to raise steam in a <a href="/wiki/Heat_recovery_steam_generator" title="Heat recovery steam generator">heat recovery steam generator</a> which powers a supplemental <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbine</a>. The overall plant efficiency when used to provide <a href="/wiki/Combined_heat_and_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined heat and power">combined heat and power</a> can reach as much as 94%.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> IGCC power plants emit less local pollution than conventional pulverized coal-fueled plants. Other ways to use coal are as <a href="/wiki/Coal-water_slurry_fuel" title="Coal-water slurry fuel">coal-water slurry fuel</a> (CWS), which was developed in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, or in <a href="/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_generator" title="Magnetohydrodynamic generator">an MHD topping cycle</a>. However these are not widely used due to lack of profit. </p><p>In 2017 38% of the world's electricity came from coal, the same percentage as 30 years previously.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018 global installed capacity was 2<a href="/wiki/Terawatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Terawatt">TW</a> (of which 1TW is in China) which was 30% of total electricity generation capacity.<sup id="cite_ref-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The most dependent major country is South Africa, with over 80% of its electricity generated by coal;<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but China alone generates more than half of the world's coal-generated electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Efforts around the world to reduce the use of coal have led some regions to switch to natural gas and <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a>. In 2018 coal-fired power station <a href="/wiki/Capacity_factor" title="Capacity factor">capacity factor</a> averaged 51%, that is they operated for about half their available operating hours.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coke">Coke</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coke_(fuel)" title="Coke (fuel)">Coke (fuel)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg/220px-Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg/330px-Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg/440px-Coke_Ovens_Abercwmboi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3039" data-file-height="2136" /></a><figcaption>Coke oven at a <a href="/wiki/Smokeless_fuel" title="Smokeless fuel">smokeless fuel</a> plant in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, United Kingdom</figcaption></figure> <p>Coke is a solid carbonaceous residue that is used in manufacturing steel and other iron-containing products.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Coal_Steel_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Coal_Steel-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coke is made when <a href="/wiki/Metallurgical_coal" title="Metallurgical coal">metallurgical coal</a> (also known as <i>coking coal</i>) is baked in an oven without oxygen at temperatures as high as 1,000&#160;°C, driving off the volatile constituents and fusing together the fixed carbon and residual ash. Metallurgical coke is used as a fuel and as a <a href="/wiki/Reducing_agent" title="Reducing agent">reducing agent</a> in <a href="/wiki/Smelting" title="Smelting">smelting</a> iron ore in a <a href="/wiki/Blast_furnace" title="Blast furnace">blast furnace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The carbon monoxide produced by its combustion reduces <a href="/wiki/Hematite" title="Hematite">hematite</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Iron_oxide" title="Iron oxide">iron oxide</a>) to iron. </p> <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1123817410"><span class="chemf nowrap">2 Fe<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>O<sub class="template-chem2-sub">3</sub> + 6 CO → 4 Fe + 6 CO<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Pig_iron" title="Pig iron">Pig iron</a>, which is too rich in dissolved carbon, is also produced. </p><p>The coke must be <a href="/wiki/Coke_strength_after_reaction" title="Coke strength after reaction">strong enough</a> to resist the weight of overburden in the blast furnace, which is why coking coal is so important in making steel using the conventional route. Coke from coal is grey, hard, and porous and has a heating value of 29.6 MJ/kg. Some coke-making processes produce byproducts, including <a href="/wiki/Coal_tar" title="Coal tar">coal tar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ammonia" title="Ammonia">ammonia</a>, light oils, and <a href="/wiki/Coal_gas" title="Coal gas">coal gas</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Petroleum_coke" title="Petroleum coke">Petroleum coke</a> (petcoke) is the solid residue obtained in <a href="/wiki/Oil_refining" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil refining">oil refining</a>, which resembles coke but contains too many impurities to be useful in metallurgical applications. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Production_of_chemicals">Production of chemicals</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg/300px-Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg/450px-Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg/600px-Coal_to_chemicals_routes_diagram.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="478" /></a><figcaption>Production of chemicals from coal</figcaption></figure> <p>Chemicals have been produced from coal since the 1950s. Coal can be used as a feedstock in the production of a wide range of chemical fertilizers and other chemical products. The main route to these products was <a href="/wiki/Coal_gasification" title="Coal gasification">coal gasification</a> to produce <a href="/wiki/Syngas" title="Syngas">syngas</a>. Primary chemicals that are produced directly from the syngas include <a href="/wiki/Methanol" title="Methanol">methanol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen" title="Hydrogen">hydrogen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Carbon_monoxide" title="Carbon monoxide">carbon monoxide</a>, which are the chemical building blocks from which a whole spectrum of derivative chemicals are manufactured, including <a href="/wiki/Olefins" class="mw-redirect" title="Olefins">olefins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acetic_acid" title="Acetic acid">acetic acid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Formaldehyde" title="Formaldehyde">formaldehyde</a>, ammonia, <a href="/wiki/Urea" title="Urea">urea</a>, and others. The versatility of <a href="/wiki/Syngas" title="Syngas">syngas</a> as a precursor to primary chemicals and high-value derivative products provides the option of using coal to produce a wide range of commodities. In the 21st century, however, the use of <a href="/wiki/Coalbed_methane" title="Coalbed methane">coal bed methane</a> is becoming more important.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because the slate of chemical products that can be made via coal gasification can in general also use feedstocks derived from <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a>, the chemical industry tends to use whatever feedstocks are most cost-effective. Therefore, interest in using coal tended to increase for higher oil and natural gas prices and during periods of high global economic growth that might have strained oil and gas production. </p><p>Coal to chemical processes require substantial quantities of water.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Much coal to chemical production is in China<sup id="cite_ref-OILDRUM9371_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OILDRUM9371-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ICIS022712_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICIS022712-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> where coal dependent provinces such as <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a> are struggling to control its pollution.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liquefaction">Liquefaction</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coal_liquefaction" title="Coal liquefaction">Coal liquefaction</a></div> <p>Coal can be converted directly into <a href="/wiki/Synthetic_fuel" title="Synthetic fuel">synthetic fuels</a> equivalent to gasoline or diesel by <a href="/wiki/Hydrogenation" title="Hydrogenation">hydrogenation</a> or <a href="/wiki/Carbonization" title="Carbonization">carbonization</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal liquefaction emits more carbon dioxide than liquid fuel production from <a href="/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">crude oil</a>. Mixing in biomass and using <a href="/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage" title="Carbon capture and storage">carbon capture and storage</a> (CCS) would emit slightly less than the oil process but at a high cost.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> State owned <a href="/wiki/China_Energy_Investment" title="China Energy Investment">China Energy Investment</a> runs a coal liquefaction plant and plans to build 2 more.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coal liquefaction may also refer to the cargo hazard when shipping coal.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gasification">Gasification</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Coal_gasification" title="Coal gasification">Coal gasification</a> and <a href="/wiki/Underground_coal_gasification" title="Underground coal gasification">Underground coal gasification</a></div> <p>Coal gasification, as part of an <a href="/wiki/Integrated_gasification_combined_cycle" title="Integrated gasification combined cycle">integrated gasification combined cycle</a> (IGCC) coal-fired power station, is used to produce <a href="/wiki/Syngas" title="Syngas">syngas</a>, a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Carbon_monoxide" title="Carbon monoxide">carbon monoxide</a> (CO) and hydrogen (H<sub>2</sub>) gas to fire gas turbines to produce electricity. Syngas can also be converted into transportation fuels, such as <a href="/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline">gasoline</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diesel_fuel" title="Diesel fuel">diesel</a>, through the <a href="/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process" title="Fischer–Tropsch process">Fischer–Tropsch process</a>; alternatively, syngas can be converted into <a href="/wiki/Methanol" title="Methanol">methanol</a>, which can be blended into fuel directly or converted to gasoline via the methanol to gasoline process.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gasification combined with Fischer–Tropsch technology was used by the <a href="/wiki/Sasol" title="Sasol">Sasol</a> chemical company of <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> to make chemicals and motor vehicle fuels from coal.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During gasification, the coal is mixed with <a href="/wiki/Oxygen" title="Oxygen">oxygen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steam" title="Steam">steam</a> while also being heated and pressurized. During the reaction, oxygen and water molecules <a href="/wiki/Redox" title="Redox">oxidize</a> the coal into carbon monoxide (CO), while also releasing <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen" title="Hydrogen">hydrogen</a> gas (H<sub>2</sub>). This used to be done in underground coal mines, and also to make <a href="/wiki/Town_gas" class="mw-redirect" title="Town gas">town gas</a>, which was piped to customers to burn for illumination, heating, and cooking. </p> <dl><dd>3C (<i>as Coal</i>) + O<sub>2</sub> + H<sub>2</sub>O → H<sub>2</sub> + 3CO</dd></dl> <p>If the refiner wants to produce gasoline, the syngas is routed into a Fischer–Tropsch reaction. This is known as indirect coal liquefaction. If hydrogen is the desired end-product, however, the syngas is fed into the <a href="/wiki/Water_gas_shift_reaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Water gas shift reaction">water gas shift reaction</a>, where more hydrogen is liberated: </p> <dl><dd>CO + H<sub>2</sub>O → CO<sub>2</sub> + H<sub>2</sub></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coal_industry">Coal industry</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main pages: <a href="/wiki/Category:Coal_companies" title="Category:Coal companies">Category:Coal companies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">Coal mining</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal by country">Coal by country</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_industry_in_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal industry in China">Coal industry in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_industry_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal industry in Pakistan">Coal industry in Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_industry_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal industry in India">Coal industry in India</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Coal_companies_of_Australia" title="Coal companies of Australia">Coal companies of Australia</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mining">Mining</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">Coal mining</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg/220px-Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg/330px-Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg/440px-Miners_at_the_Virginia-Pocahontas_Coal_Company_Mine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2895" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Coal miners in the <a href="/wiki/Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachia</a> region in 1974</figcaption></figure> <p>About 8,000 Mt of coal are produced annually, about 90% of which is hard coal and 10% lignite. As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coal&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> just over half is from underground mines.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coal <a href="/wiki/Mining_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mining industry">mining industry</a> employs almost 2.7 million workers.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> More accidents occur during underground mining than surface mining. Not all countries publish <a href="/wiki/Mining_accident" title="Mining accident">mining accident</a> statistics so worldwide figures are uncertain, but it is thought that most deaths occur in <a href="/wiki/List_of_coal_mining_accidents_in_China" title="List of coal mining accidents in China">coal mining accidents in China</a>: in 2017 there were 375 coal mining related deaths in China.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most coal mined is thermal coal (also called steam coal as it is used to make steam to generate electricity) but metallurgical coal (also called "metcoal" or "coking coal" as it is used to make coke to make iron) accounts for 10% to 15% of global coal use.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_traded_commodity">As a traded commodity</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source" title="Cost of electricity by source">Cost of electricity by source</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Art_work_of_Toledo,_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_(page_125)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Art_work_of_Toledo%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_0a107364e8d8eb430ebc183d28c46463_%28page_125%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5659" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Extensive coal docks seen in <a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio" title="Toledo, Ohio">Toledo, Ohio</a>, 1895</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Coal_in_China" title="Coal in China">China mines</a> almost half the world's coal, followed by <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_India" title="Coal in India">India</a> with about a tenth.<sup id="cite_ref-BPReview2016_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BPReview2016-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At 471 Mt and a 34% share of global exports, Indonesia was the largest exporter by volume in 2022, followed by Australia with 344 Mt and Russia with 224 Mt.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other major exporters of coal are the United States, South Africa, Colombia, and Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 118">&#58;&#8202;118&#8202;</span></sup> In 2022, China, India, and Japan were the biggest importers of coal, importing 301, 228, and 184 Mt respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_82-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 117">&#58;&#8202;117&#8202;</span></sup> Russia is increasingly orienting its coal exports from Europe to Asia as Europe transitions to renewable energy and subjects Russia to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-Overland-2023_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Overland-2023-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The price of metallurgical coal is volatile<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and much higher than the price of thermal coal because metallurgical coal must be lower in sulfur and requires more cleaning.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal futures contracts provide coal producers and the <a href="/wiki/Electric_power_industry" title="Electric power industry">electric power industry</a> an important tool for <a href="/wiki/Hedge_(finance)" title="Hedge (finance)">hedging</a> and <a href="/wiki/Risk_management" title="Risk management">risk management</a>. </p><p>In some countries, new onshore <a href="/wiki/Wind_power" title="Wind power">wind</a> or <a href="/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power">solar</a> generation already costs less than coal power from existing plants.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, for China this is forecast for the early 2020s<sup id="cite_ref-CarbTrk2018_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CarbTrk2018-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and for southeast Asia not until the late 2020s.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In India, building new plants is uneconomic and, despite being subsidized, existing plants are losing market share to renewables.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In many countries in the Global North, there is a move away from the use of coal and former mine sites are being used as a tourist attraction.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Market_trends">Market trends</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_production" title="List of countries by coal production">List of countries by coal production</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coal_production_by_region,_OWID.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg/400px-Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg/600px-Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg/800px-Coal_production_by_region%2C_OWID.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Coal production by region</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2022, China used 4520 Mt of coal, comprising more than half of global coal consumption. India, the European Union, and the United States, were the next largest consumers of coal, using 1162, 461, and 455 Mt respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_82-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 114">&#58;&#8202;114&#8202;</span></sup> Over the past decade, China has almost always accounted for the lion's share of the global growth in coal demand.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Therefore, international market trends depend on <a href="/wiki/Energy_policy_of_China" title="Energy policy of China">Chinese energy policy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IEA2018_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEA2018-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the government effort to reduce air pollution in China means that the global long-term trend is to burn less coal, the short and medium term trends may differ, in part due to Chinese financing of new coal-fired power plants in other countries.<sup id="cite_ref-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Preliminary analysis by <a href="/wiki/International_Energy_Agency" title="International Energy Agency">International Energy Agency</a> (IEA) indicates that global coal exports reached an all-time high in 2023. Through to 2026, the IEA expects global coal trade to decline by about 12%, driven by growing domestic production in coal-intensive economies such as China and India and <a href="/wiki/Coal_phase-out" title="Coal phase-out">coal phase-out</a> plans elsewhere, such as in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_111-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While thermal coal exports are expected to decline by about 16% by 2026, exports of metallurgical coal are expected to slightly increase by almost 2%.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_111-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Damage_to_human_health">Damage to human health<span class="anchor" id="Health_effects"></span></h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2021_Death_rates,_by_energy_source.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg/220px-2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg/330px-2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg/440px-2021_Death_rates%2C_by_energy_source.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="675" /></a><figcaption>Deaths caused as a result of fossil fuel use, especially coal (areas of rectangles in chart) greatly exceed those resulting from production of <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a> (rectangles barely visible in chart).<sup id="cite_ref-OWID_SafestEnergy_2021_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OWID_SafestEnergy_2021-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The use of coal as fuel causes health problems and deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The mining and processing of coal causes air and water pollution.<sup id="cite_ref-Hendryx-2020_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hendryx-2020-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal-powered plants emit nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate pollution, and heavy metals, which adversely affect human health.<sup id="cite_ref-Hendryx-2020_124-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hendryx-2020-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Coalbed_methane_extraction" title="Coalbed methane extraction">Coal bed methane extraction</a> is important to avoid mining accidents. </p><p>The deadly <a href="/wiki/Pea_soup_fog#London" title="Pea soup fog">London smog</a> was caused primarily by the heavy use of coal. Globally coal is estimated to cause 800,000 premature deaths every year,<sup id="cite_ref-Endcoal_health_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Endcoal_health-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> mostly in India<sup id="cite_ref-Economist2018_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist2018-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and China.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Burning coal is a major contributor to <a href="/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide" title="Sulfur dioxide">sulfur dioxide</a> emissions, which creates PM2.5 <a href="/wiki/Particulates" title="Particulates">particulates</a>, the most dangerous form of air pollution.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coal smokestack emissions cause <a href="/wiki/Asthma" title="Asthma">asthma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strokes" class="mw-redirect" title="Strokes">strokes</a>, reduced <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Artery" title="Artery">artery</a> blockages, <a href="/wiki/Heart_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attacks">heart attacks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Congestive_heart_failure" class="mw-redirect" title="Congestive heart failure">congestive heart failure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_arrhythmias" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardiac arrhythmias">cardiac arrhythmias</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercury_poisoning" title="Mercury poisoning">mercury poisoning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stenosis" title="Stenosis">arterial occlusion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer">lung cancer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-psr_coal-damages-health_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-psr_coal-damages-health-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Annual health costs in Europe from use of coal to generate electricity are estimated at up to €43 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In China, early deaths due to air pollution coal plants have been estimated at 200 per GW-year, however they may be higher around power plants where scrubbers are not used or lower if they are far from cities.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Improvements to China's air quality and human health would grow with more stringent climate policies, mainly because the country's energy is so heavily reliant on coal. And there would be a net economic benefit.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2017 study in the <i><a href="/wiki/Economic_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Journal">Economic Journal</a></i> found that for Britain during the period 1851–1860, "a one standard deviation increase in coal use raised infant mortality by 6–8% and that industrial coal use explains roughly one-third of the urban mortality penalty observed during this period."<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Breathing in <a href="/wiki/Coal_dust" title="Coal dust">coal dust</a> causes <a href="/wiki/Coalworker%27s_pneumoconiosis" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalworker&#39;s pneumoconiosis">coalworker's pneumoconiosis</a> or "black lung", so called because the coal dust literally turns the lungs black.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the US alone, it is estimated that 1,500 former employees of the coal industry die every year from the effects of breathing in coal mine dust.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Huge amounts of coal ash and other waste is produced annually. Use of coal generates hundreds of millions of tons of ash and other waste products every year. These include <a href="/wiki/Fly_ash" class="mw-redirect" title="Fly ash">fly ash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bottom_ash" title="Bottom ash">bottom ash</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Flue-gas_desulfurization" title="Flue-gas desulfurization">flue-gas desulfurization</a> sludge, that contain <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(element)" title="Mercury (element)">mercury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thorium" title="Thorium">thorium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metals" title="Heavy metals">heavy metals</a>, along with non-metals such as <a href="/wiki/Selenium" title="Selenium">selenium</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 10% of coal is ash.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Coal_ash" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal ash">Coal ash</a> is hazardous and toxic to human beings and some other living things.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal ash contains the radioactive elements <a href="/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thorium" title="Thorium">thorium</a>. Coal ash and other solid combustion byproducts are stored locally and escape in various ways that expose those living near <a href="/wiki/Coal_plants" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal plants">coal plants</a> to radiation and environmental toxics.<sup id="cite_ref-sa-coal-ash-more-rdactiv_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sa-coal-ash-more-rdactiv-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Damage_to_the_environment">Damage to the environment</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental impact of the coal industry">Environmental impact of the coal industry</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg/220px-Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg/330px-Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg/440px-Aerial_view_of_ash_slide_site_Dec_23_2008_TVA.gov_123002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="828" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Aerial photograph of the site of the <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant" title="Kingston Fossil Plant">Kingston Fossil Plant</a> coal fly ash slurry spill taken the day after <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill" title="Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill">the event</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">Coal mining</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coal_combustion_wastes" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal combustion wastes">coal combustion wastes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Flue_gas" title="Flue gas">flue gas</a> are causing major environmental damage.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Water systems are affected by coal mining.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, the mining of coal affects <a href="/wiki/Groundwater" title="Groundwater">groundwater</a> and <a href="/wiki/Water_table" title="Water table">water table</a> levels and acidity. Spills of fly ash, such as the <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill" title="Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill">Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill</a>, can also contaminate land and waterways, and destroy homes. Power stations that burn coal also consume large quantities of water. This can affect the flows of rivers, and has consequential impacts on other land uses. In areas of <a href="/wiki/Water_scarcity" title="Water scarcity">water scarcity</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Thar_Desert" title="Thar Desert">Thar Desert</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, coal mining and coal power plants contribute to the depletion of water resources.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the earliest known impacts of coal on the <a href="/wiki/Water_cycle" title="Water cycle">water cycle</a> was <a href="/wiki/Acid_rain" title="Acid rain">acid rain</a>. In 2014, approximately 100 <a href="/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)#106_to_1011_kg" title="Orders of magnitude (mass)">Tg</a>/S of <a href="/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide" title="Sulfur dioxide">sulfur dioxide</a> (SO<sub>2</sub>) was released, over half of which was from burning coal.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After release, the sulfur dioxide is oxidized to H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> which scatters solar radiation, hence its increase in the atmosphere exerts a cooling effect on the climate. This beneficially masks some of the warming caused by increased greenhouse gases. However, the sulfur is precipitated out of the atmosphere as acid rain in a matter of weeks,<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whereas carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Release of SO<sub>2</sub> also contributes to the widespread acidification of ecosystems.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Disused coal mines can also cause issues. Subsidence can occur above tunnels, causing damage to infrastructure or cropland. Coal mining can also cause long lasting fires, and it has been estimated that thousands of <a href="/wiki/Coal_seam_fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal seam fire">coal seam fires</a> are burning at any given time.<sup id="cite_ref-Deep_underground_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deep_underground-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, <a href="/wiki/Brennender_Berg" title="Brennender Berg">Brennender Berg</a> has been burning since 1668, and is still burning in the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-mineralienatlas_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mineralienatlas-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The production of coke from coal produces ammonia, coal tar, and gaseous compounds as byproducts which if discharged to land, air or waterways can pollute the environment.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Whyalla_steelworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Whyalla steelworks">Whyalla steelworks</a> is one example of a coke producing facility where liquid ammonia was discharged to the marine environment.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate_change">Climate change</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg/330px-1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg/495px-1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg/660px-1979-_Radiative_forcing_-_climate_change_-_global_warming_-_EPA_NOAA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption> The warming influence (called <a href="/wiki/Radiative_forcing" title="Radiative forcing">radiative forcing</a>) of long-lived greenhouse gases has nearly doubled in 40 years, with carbon dioxide being the dominant driver of global warming.<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_AGGI_2023_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA_AGGI_2023-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The largest and most long-term effect of coal use is the release of carbon dioxide, a <a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas" title="Greenhouse gas">greenhouse gas</a> that causes <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>. Coal-fired power plants were the single largest contributor to the growth in global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-Gençsü_2019,_p._8_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gençsü_2019,_p._8-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 40% of the total fossil fuel emissions,<sup id="cite_ref-phys2018_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phys2018-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and more than a quarter of total emissions.<sup id="cite_ref-cebf_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cebf-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal mining can emit methane, another greenhouse gas.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016 world gross <a href="/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_emissions" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon dioxide emissions">carbon dioxide emissions</a> from coal usage were 14.5 gigatonnes.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For every megawatt-hour generated, coal-fired electric power generation emits around a tonne of carbon dioxide, which is double the approximately 500&#160;kg of carbon dioxide released by a <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a>-fired electric plant.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The emission intensity of coal varies with type and generator technology and exceeds 1200&#160;g per kWh in some countries.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, the head of the UN climate agency advised that most of the world's coal reserves should be left in the ground to avoid catastrophic global warming.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To keep global warming below 1.5&#160;°C or 2&#160;°C hundreds, or possibly thousands, of coal-fired power plants will need to be retired early.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Underground_fires">Underground fires</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Coal-seam_fire" title="Coal-seam fire">Coal-seam fire</a></div> <p>Thousands of coal fires are burning around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Those burning underground can be difficult to locate and many cannot be extinguished. Fires can cause the ground above to subside, their combustion gases are dangerous to life, and breaking out to the surface can initiate surface <a href="/wiki/Wildfire" title="Wildfire">wildfires</a>. Coal seams can be set on fire by <a href="/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion" title="Spontaneous combustion">spontaneous combustion</a> or contact with a <a href="/wiki/Mine_fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Mine fire">mine fire</a> or surface fire. Lightning strikes are an important source of ignition. The coal continues to burn slowly back into the seam until oxygen (air) can no longer reach the flame front. A grass fire in a coal area can set dozens of coal seams on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal fires in China burn an estimated 120 million tons of coal a year, emitting 360 million metric tons of CO<sub>2</sub>, amounting to 2–3% of the annual worldwide production of CO<sub>2</sub> from <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pollution_mitigation_and_carbon_capture">Pollution mitigation and carbon capture</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_(7315637538)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Figure_1-_Sample_Layout_of_Emissions_Controls_at_a_Coal_Power_Plant_%287315637538%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="963" data-file-height="520" /></a><figcaption>Emissions controls at a <a href="/wiki/Coal_fired_power_plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal fired power plant">coal fired power plant</a></figcaption></figure><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Coal_pollution_mitigation" title="Coal pollution mitigation">Coal pollution mitigation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage" title="Carbon capture and storage">Carbon capture and storage</a></div> <p>Systems and technologies exist to mitigate the <a href="/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry" title="Health and environmental impact of the coal industry">health and environmental impact of burning coal</a> for energy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Precombustion_treatment">Precombustion treatment</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Refined_coal" title="Refined coal">Refined coal</a></div> <p>Refined coal is the product of a coal-upgrading technology that removes moisture and certain pollutants from lower-rank coals such as sub-bituminous and lignite (brown) coals. It is one form of several precombustion treatments and processes for coal that alter coal's characteristics before it is burned. <a href="/wiki/Thermal_efficiency" title="Thermal efficiency">Thermal efficiency</a> improvements are achievable by improved pre-drying (especially relevant with high-moisture fuel such as lignite or biomass).<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The goals of precombustion coal technologies are to increase efficiency and reduce emissions when the coal is burned. Precombustion technology can sometimes be used as a supplement to postcombustion technologies to control emissions from coal-fueled boilers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post_combustion_approaches">Post combustion approaches</h3></div> <p>Post combustion approaches to mitigate pollution include <a href="/wiki/Flue-gas_desulfurization" title="Flue-gas desulfurization">flue-gas desulfurization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selective_catalytic_reduction" title="Selective catalytic reduction">selective catalytic reduction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electrostatic_precipitators" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrostatic precipitators">electrostatic precipitators</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fly_ash" class="mw-redirect" title="Fly ash">fly ash</a> reduction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Carbon_capture_and_storage">Carbon capture and storage</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage" title="Carbon capture and storage">Carbon capture and storage</a> (CCS) can be used to capture carbon dioxide from the <a href="/wiki/Flue_gas" title="Flue gas">flue gas</a> of coal power plants and bury it securely in an underground reservoir. Between 1972 and 2017, plans were made to add CCS to enough coal and gas power plants to sequester 161 million tonnes of <span class="chemf nowrap">CO<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">2</sub></span></span></span> per year, but by 2021 98% of these plans had failed.<sup id="cite_ref-:23_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:23-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Cost, the absence of measures to address long-term liability for stored CO<sub>2</sub>, and limited social acceptability have all contributed to project cancellations.<sup id="cite_ref-:122_171-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:122-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 133">&#58;&#8202;133&#8202;</span></sup> As of 2024, CCS is in operation at only four coal power plants and one gas power plant worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="&quot;Clean_coal&quot;_and_&quot;abated_coal&quot;"><span id=".22Clean_coal.22_and_.22abated_coal.22"></span>"Clean coal" and "abated coal"</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Cartoon of seven lumps of coal in Christmas-themed attire, standing in an open doorway with songbooks, singing. A banner says &quot;The Clean Coal Carolers&quot;." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg/220px-Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg/330px-Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Acce-clean-coal-carolers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="342" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Coal industry groups promote the idea of "clean coal". In one video by the <a href="/wiki/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity" title="American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a>, coal lumps are portrayed as characters singing carols with names like "Frosty the Coalman."<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Since the mid-1980s, the term "clean coal" has been widely used with various meanings.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Initially, "clean coal technology" referred to scrubbers and catalytic converters that reduced the pollutants that cause acid rain. The scope then expanded to include reduction of other pollutants such as mercury.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_174-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Recently, the term has come to encompass the use of CCS to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).<sup id="cite_ref-:02_174-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In political discourse, the phrase "clean coal" is sometimes used to suggest that coal itself can be clean.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_174-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This suggestion is false: Technologies to mitigate emissions are implemented in the plants where coal is processed and burned, but coal as a product is intrinsically dirty.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_174-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In discussions on greenhouse gas emissions, another common term is "abatement" of coal use. In the <a href="/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, an agreement was reached to phase down unabated coal use.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Since the term <i>abated</i> was not defined, the agreement was criticized for being open to abuse.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_175-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Without a clear definition, is possible for fossil fuel use to be called "abated" if it uses CCS only in a minimal fashion, such as capturing only 30% of the emissions from a plant.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_175-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The IPCC considers fossil fuels to be unabated if they are "produced and used without interventions that substantially reduce the amount of GHG emitted throughout the life-cycle; for example, capturing 90% or more from power plants."<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:11_177-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economics">Economics</h2></div> <p>In 2018 <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$80 billion</span> was invested in coal supply but almost all for sustaining production levels rather than opening new mines.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the long term coal and oil could cost the world trillions of dollars per year.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal alone may cost Australia billions,<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whereas costs to some smaller companies or cities could be on the scale of millions of dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The economies most damaged by coal (via climate change) may be India and the US as they are the countries with the highest <a href="/wiki/Social_cost_of_carbon" title="Social cost of carbon">social cost of carbon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bank loans to finance coal are a risk to the Indian economy.<sup id="cite_ref-Economist2018_126-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist2018-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>China is the largest producer of coal in the world. It is the world's largest energy consumer, and <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_China" title="Coal in China">coal in China</a> supplies 60% of its primary energy. However two fifths of China's coal power stations are estimated to be loss-making.<sup id="cite_ref-CarbTrk2018_116-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CarbTrk2018-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Air pollution from coal storage and handling costs the US almost 200 dollars for every extra ton stored, due to PM2.5.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Coal pollution costs the <span class="nowrap">€43 billion</span> each year.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Measures to cut air pollution benefit individuals financially and the economies of countries<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> such as China.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subsidies">Subsidies</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies" title="Fossil fuel subsidies">Fossil fuel subsidies</a></div> <p>Subsidies for coal in 2021 have been estimated at <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$19 billion</span>, not including electricity subsidies, and are expected to rise in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coal&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/G20" title="G20">G20</a> countries provide at least <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$63.9 billion</span><sup id="cite_ref-Gençsü_2019,_p._8_155-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gençsü_2019,_p._8-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> of government support per year for the production of coal, including coal-fired power: many subsidies are impossible to quantify<sup id="cite_ref-ClimateTransparency2019_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ClimateTransparency2019-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but they include <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$27.6 billion</span> in domestic and international public finance, <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$15.4 billion</span> in fiscal support, and <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$20.9 billion</span> in state-owned enterprise (SOE) investments per year.<sup id="cite_ref-Gençsü_2019,_p._8_155-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gençsü_2019,_p._8-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the EU state aid to new coal-fired plants is banned from 2020, and to existing coal-fired plants from 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2018, government funding for new coal power plants was supplied by <a href="/wiki/Export%E2%80%93Import_Bank_of_China" title="Export–Import Bank of China">Exim Bank of China</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Urgewald_2018_192-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urgewald_2018-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Bank_for_International_Cooperation" title="Japan Bank for International Cooperation">Japan Bank for International Cooperation</a> and Indian public sector banks.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Kazakhstan#Coal" title="Energy in Kazakhstan">Coal in Kazakhstan</a> was the main recipient of coal consumption subsidies totalling US$2 billion in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Coal_in_Turkey#Subsidies" title="Coal in Turkey">Coal in Turkey</a> benefited from substantial subsidies in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stranded_assets">Stranded assets</h3></div> <p>Some coal-fired power stations could become <a href="/wiki/Stranded_assets" class="mw-redirect" title="Stranded assets">stranded assets</a>, for example <a href="/wiki/China_Energy_Investment" title="China Energy Investment">China Energy Investment</a>, the world's largest power company, risks losing half its capital.<sup id="cite_ref-CarbTrk2018_116-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CarbTrk2018-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, state-owned electricity utilities such as <a href="/wiki/Eskom" title="Eskom">Eskom</a> in South Africa, <a href="/wiki/Perusahaan_Listrik_Negara" title="Perusahaan Listrik Negara">Perusahaan Listrik Negara</a> in Indonesia, <a href="/wiki/Sarawak_Energy" title="Sarawak Energy">Sarawak Energy</a> in Malaysia, <a href="/wiki/Taipower" class="mw-redirect" title="Taipower">Taipower</a> in Taiwan, <a href="/wiki/EGAT" class="mw-redirect" title="EGAT">EGAT</a> in Thailand, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_Electricity" title="Vietnam Electricity">Vietnam Electricity</a> and <a href="/wiki/E%C3%9CA%C5%9E" class="mw-redirect" title="EÜAŞ">EÜAŞ</a> in Turkey are building or planning new plants.<sup id="cite_ref-Urgewald_2018b_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Urgewald_2018b-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2021 this may be helping to cause a <a href="/wiki/Carbon_bubble" title="Carbon bubble">carbon bubble</a> which could cause financial instability if it bursts.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_climate_change" title="Politics of climate change">Politics of climate change</a></div> <p>Countries building or financing new coal-fired power stations, such as China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey and Bangladesh, face mounting international criticism for obstructing the aims of the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018_89-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cornot-Gandolfe_2018-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2019, the Pacific Island nations (in particular <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>) criticized Australia for failing to cut their emissions at a faster rate than they were, citing concerns about coastal inundation and erosion.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian2018_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian2018-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 2021, the G7 members agreed to end new direct government support for international coal power generation.<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coral_not_coal_protest_at_India_Finance_Minister_Arun_Jaitley_Visit_to_Australia_(25563929593).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Coral_not_coal_protest_at_India_Finance_Minister_Arun_Jaitley_Visit_to_Australia_%2825563929593%29.jpg/220px-Coral_not_coal_protest_at_India_Finance_Minister_Arun_Jaitley_Visit_to_Australia_%2825563929593%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Coral_not_coal_protest_at_India_Finance_Minister_Arun_Jaitley_Visit_to_Australia_%2825563929593%29.jpg/330px-Coral_not_coal_protest_at_India_Finance_Minister_Arun_Jaitley_Visit_to_Australia_%2825563929593%29.jpg 1.5x, 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class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the official state rock of <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a><sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These <a href="/wiki/US_states" class="mw-redirect" title="US states">US states</a> have a historic link to coal mining. </p><p>Some cultures hold that children who misbehave will receive only a lump of coal from <a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus" title="Santa Claus">Santa Claus</a> for Christmas in their <a href="/wiki/Christmas_stocking" title="Christmas stocking">stockings</a> instead of presents. </p><p>It is also customary and considered lucky in Scotland to give coal as a gift on <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day" title="New Year&#39;s Day">New Year's Day</a>. This occurs as part of <a href="/wiki/First-footing" class="mw-redirect" title="First-footing">first-footing</a> and represents warmth for the year to come.<sup id="cite_ref-Scotsman_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scotsman-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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title="Portal:Energy">Energy portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biochar" title="Biochar">Biochar</a>&#160;– Lightweight black residue, made of carbon and ashes, after pyrolysis of biomass</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbochemistry" title="Carbochemistry">Carbochemistry</a>&#160;– Branch of chemistry</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_analysis" title="Coal analysis">Coal analysis</a>&#160;– Measurement of properties of coal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_blending" title="Coal blending">Coal blending</a>&#160;– Mixing of mined coal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_homogenization" title="Coal homogenization">Coal homogenization</a>&#160;– Process of mixing coal to reduce variance</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_measures" title="Coal measures">Coal measures</a> (stratigraphic unit)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry" title="Health and environmental impact of the coal industry">Health and environmental impact of the coal industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fluidized_bed_combustion" title="Fluidized bed combustion">Fluidized bed combustion</a>&#160;– Technology used to burn solid fuels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel_phase-out" title="Fossil fuel phase-out">Fossil fuel phase-out</a>&#160;– Gradual reduction of the use and production of fossil fuels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyttja" title="Gyttja">Gytta</a>&#160;– type of fine grained sedimentary mud<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal-mining_region" title="Coal-mining region">Coal-mining region</a>&#160;– Basin with coal deposits</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining" title="Mountaintop removal mining">Mountaintop removal mining</a>&#160;– Type of surface mining</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subcoal" title="Subcoal">Subcoal</a>&#160;– Coal substitute made from recycled waste</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Coal_Question" title="The Coal Question"><i>The Coal Question</i></a>&#160;– Book by William Stanley Jevons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonstein" title="Tonstein">Tonstein</a>&#160;– Type of sedimentary rock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FutureCoal" title="FutureCoal">FutureCoal</a>&#160;– international non-profit, non-governmental association based in London representing the global coal industry<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89pinac_coal_mine" title="Épinac coal mine">Épinac coal mine</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Penguin Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7382-0400-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7382-0400-0"><bdi>978-0-7382-0400-0</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/51449422">51449422</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Coal%3A+A+Human+History&amp;rft.pub=Penguin+Books&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F51449422&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7382-0400-0&amp;rft.aulast=Freese&amp;rft.aufirst=Barbara&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcoalhumanhistory00free_0&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThurber2019" class="citation book cs1">Thurber, Mark (2019). <i>Coal</i>. Polity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1509514014" title="Special:BookSources/978-1509514014"><bdi>978-1509514014</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Coal&amp;rft.pub=Polity+Press&amp;rft.date=2019&amp;rft.isbn=978-1509514014&amp;rft.aulast=Thurber&amp;rft.aufirst=Mark&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoal" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaxman2022" class="citation book cs1">Paxman, Jeremy (2022). <i>Black Gold&#160;: The History of How Coal Made Britain</i>. William Collins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780008128364" title="Special:BookSources/9780008128364"><bdi>9780008128364</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Black+Gold+%3A+The+History+of+How+Coal+Made+Britain.&amp;rft.pub=William+Collins&amp;rft.date=2022&amp;rft.isbn=9780008128364&amp;rft.aulast=Paxman&amp;rft.aufirst=Jeremy&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACoal" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output 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title="Rankine cycle">Rankine cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power" title="Three-phase electric power">Three-phase electric power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virtual_power_plant" title="Virtual power plant">Virtual power plant</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Electric_power_transmission" title="Electric power transmission">Transmission</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Electric_power_distribution" title="Electric power distribution">distribution</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demand_response" title="Demand response">Demand response</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Distributed_generation" title="Distributed generation">Distributed generation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamic_demand_(electric_power)" title="Dynamic demand (electric power)">Dynamic demand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_power_distribution" title="Electric power distribution">Electric power distribution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_power_system" title="Electric power system">Electric power system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_power_transmission" title="Electric power transmission">Electric power transmission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electrical_busbar_system" title="Electrical busbar system">Electrical busbar system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electrical_grid" title="Electrical grid">Electrical grid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electrical_substation" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical substation">Electrical substation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electricity_retailing" title="Electricity retailing">Electricity retailing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current" title="High-voltage direct current">High-voltage direct current</a></li> <li><a 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title="Lherzolite">Lherzolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monzogranite" title="Monzogranite">Monzogranite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monzonite" title="Monzonite">Monzonite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepheline_syenite" title="Nepheline syenite">Nepheline syenite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephelinite" title="Nephelinite">Nephelinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norite" title="Norite">Norite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obsidian" title="Obsidian">Obsidian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pegmatite" title="Pegmatite">Pegmatite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peridotite" title="Peridotite">Peridotite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phonolite" title="Phonolite">Phonolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phonotephrite" title="Phonotephrite">Phonotephrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porphyry_(geology)" title="Porphyry (geology)">Porphyry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pumice" title="Pumice">Pumice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyroxenite" title="Pyroxenite">Pyroxenite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartz_diorite" title="Quartz diorite">Quartz diorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartz_monzonite" title="Quartz monzonite">Quartz monzonite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartzolite" title="Quartzolite">Quartzolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyodacite" title="Rhyodacite">Rhyodacite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyolite" title="Rhyolite">Rhyolite</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comendite" title="Comendite">Comendite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantellerite" title="Pantellerite">Pantellerite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scoria" title="Scoria">Scoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shonkinite" title="Shonkinite">Shonkinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovite" title="Sovite">Sovite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syenite" title="Syenite">Syenite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tachylyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Tachylyte">Tachylyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tephriphonolite" title="Tephriphonolite">Tephriphonolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tephrite" title="Tephrite">Tephrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonalite" title="Tonalite">Tonalite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trachyandesite" title="Trachyandesite">Trachyandesite</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benmoreite" title="Benmoreite">Benmoreite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trachybasalt" title="Trachybasalt">Trachybasalt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiite" title="Hawaiite">Hawaiite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trachyte" title="Trachyte">Trachyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troctolite" title="Troctolite">Troctolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trondhjemite" title="Trondhjemite">Trondhjemite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuff" title="Tuff">Tuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Websterite" title="Websterite">Websterite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wehrlite" title="Wehrlite">Wehrlite</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_rock" title="Sedimentary rock">Sedimentary rock</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argillite" title="Argillite">Argillite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkose" title="Arkose">Arkose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banded_iron_formation" title="Banded iron formation">Banded iron formation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breccia" title="Breccia">Breccia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calcarenite" title="Calcarenite">Calcarenite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalk" title="Chalk">Chalk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chert" title="Chert">Chert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claystone" class="mw-redirect" title="Claystone">Claystone</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Coal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conglomerate_(geology)" title="Conglomerate (geology)">Conglomerate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coquina" title="Coquina">Coquina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diamictite" title="Diamictite">Diamictite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diatomite" class="mw-redirect" title="Diatomite">Diatomite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolomite_(rock)" title="Dolomite (rock)">Dolomite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evaporite" title="Evaporite">Evaporite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">Flint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geyserite" title="Geyserite">Geyserite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greywacke" title="Greywacke">Greywacke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gritstone" title="Gritstone">Gritstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itacolumite" title="Itacolumite">Itacolumite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaspillite" title="Jaspillite">Jaspillite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laterite" title="Laterite">Laterite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lignite" title="Lignite">Lignite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">Limestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lumachelle" title="Lumachelle">Lumachelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marl" title="Marl">Marl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudstone" title="Mudstone">Mudstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_shale" title="Oil shale">Oil shale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oolite" title="Oolite">Oolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phosphorite" title="Phosphorite">Phosphorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">Sandstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shale" title="Shale">Shale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siltstone" title="Siltstone">Siltstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvinite" title="Sylvinite">Sylvinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tillite" class="mw-redirect" title="Tillite">Tillite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travertine" title="Travertine">Travertine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tufa" title="Tufa">Tufa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turbidite" title="Turbidite">Turbidite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varve" title="Varve">Varve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wackestone" title="Wackestone">Wackestone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Metamorphic_rock" title="Metamorphic rock">Metamorphic rock</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthracite" title="Anthracite">Anthracite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphibolite" title="Amphibolite">Amphibolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blueschist" title="Blueschist">Blueschist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cataclasite" title="Cataclasite">Cataclasite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclogite" title="Eclogite">Eclogite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gneiss" title="Gneiss">Gneiss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granulite" title="Granulite">Granulite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenschist" title="Greenschist">Greenschist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hornfels" title="Hornfels">Hornfels</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calcflinta" title="Calcflinta">Calcflinta</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itabirite" title="Itabirite">Itabirite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfieldite" title="Litchfieldite">Litchfieldite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marble" title="Marble">Marble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Migmatite" title="Migmatite">Migmatite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mylonite" title="Mylonite">Mylonite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metapelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Metapelite">Metapelite</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metapsammite&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Metapsammite (page does not exist)">Metapsammite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phyllite" title="Phyllite">Phyllite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudotachylite" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudotachylite">Pseudotachylite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartzite" title="Quartzite">Quartzite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schist" title="Schist">Schist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serpentinite" title="Serpentinite">Serpentinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skarn" title="Skarn">Skarn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slate" title="Slate">Slate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suevite" title="Suevite">Suevite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talc_carbonate" title="Talc carbonate">Talc carbonate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soapstone" title="Soapstone">Soapstone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tectonite" title="Tectonite">Tectonite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whiteschist" title="Whiteschist">Whiteschist</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specific varieties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adamellite" class="mw-redirect" title="Adamellite">Adamellite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appinite" title="Appinite">Appinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphanite" title="Aphanite">Aphanite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borolanite" title="Borolanite">Borolanite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larvikite" title="Larvikite">Blue Granite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epidosite" title="Epidosite">Epidosite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felsite" title="Felsite">Felsite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">Flint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganister" title="Ganister">Ganister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gossan" title="Gossan">Gossan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyaloclastite" title="Hyaloclastite">Hyaloclastite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ijolite" title="Ijolite">Ijolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jadeitite" title="Jadeitite">Jadeitite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasperoid" title="Jasperoid">Jasperoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenyte" title="Kenyte">Kenyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapis_lazuli" title="Lapis lazuli">Lapis lazuli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larvikite" title="Larvikite">Larvikite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litchfieldite" title="Litchfieldite">Litchfieldite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llanite" title="Llanite">Llanite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxullianite" title="Luxullianite">Luxullianite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangerite" title="Mangerite">Mangerite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novaculite" title="Novaculite">Novaculite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietersite" title="Pietersite">Pietersite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrolite" title="Pyrolite">Pyrolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapakivi_granite" title="Rapakivi granite">Rapakivi granite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhomb_porphyry" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhomb porphyry">Rhomb porphyry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodingite" title="Rodingite">Rodingite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shonkinite" title="Shonkinite">Shonkinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taconite" title="Taconite">Taconite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tachylite" title="Tachylite">Tachylite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teschenite" title="Teschenite">Teschenite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theralite" title="Theralite">Theralite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unakite" title="Unakite">Unakite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Variolite" title="Variolite">Variolite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wad_(mineral)" title="Wad (mineral)">Wad</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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