Selected results of the slovak coal research

Abstract

The contribution gives the review of Slovak brown coal research in the last 10 years. The state and development trends of the coal research in Slovakia from the point of view of the clean coal technologies application are described. Some selected results which have been obtained at the Institute of Geotechnics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences are also introduced.

Keywords

• Slovak brown coal
• clean coal technologies
• desulphurization
• physical
• chemical and biological processing