Documents, Tools & Resources
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Documents, Tools & Resources
Popular Documents
- Identifying Opportunities for Coal Mine Methane Recovery at U.S. Coal Mines: Profiles of Selected Gassy Underground Coal Mines 2002-2006 (PDF) (207 pp, 1.4MB, About PDF)
- U.S. Abandoned Coal Mine Methane Recovery Project Opportunities (PDF) (61 pp, 921K, About PDF)
- Coal Mine Methane Global Overview, prepared by CMOP on behalf of the Methane to Markets Partnership Coal Subcommittee
- Thermal Oxidation of Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane (PDF) (6 pp, 197K, About PDF)
- Technical Options Series
CMOP strives to provide users with the necessary tools to maximize profitable methane reductions. Support documents are available for categories of general information, U.S. activities, international activities, technical guidance, and finance and policy.
Documents
- Program Information - This section contains overview materials about CMOP, our accomplishments, and coal mine methane (CMM) projects generally.
- Identifying Project Opportunities - This section contains information about potential U.S. CMM projects, including conventional projects using drained gas at active underground mines, abandoned coal mines, and ventilation air methane.
- Implementing Projects - This section contains technical information about aspects of recovering and utilizing CMM, including degasification techniques, end use technologies, and flaring.
- Finance and Policy - This section contains information about financing CMM projects, regulatory barriers to these projects, and emissions inventories and methodologies.
- International - This section contains country-specific information about CMM projects and opportunities in key coal producing countries, including China, Russia, Poland, and Ukraine.
- Archived Documents - This section contains historical program reports in the above categories that contain useful information but may no longer be current.
Tools and Resources
- The International Coal Mine Methane Projects Database
contains information on over two hundred coal mine methane recovery and utilization projects operating, in development, or planned around the world.
- Department of Energy (DOE) domestic energy prices
This link offers access to DOE's Short-Term Energy Outlook, an annual document that contains various data on domestic electricity and natural gas prices.
- United States Coalbed Methane maps
The two maps accessible from this DOE Web site show the location and size of CBM fields, CBM production, coal basins, and both abandoned and active gassy coal mines.
- Our Interactive Unit Converter allows you to convert figures among the many different units of measure in reference to CMM, power generation, etc.
- The Natural GasStar Program also offers a useful Methane Unit Converter (PDF) (2 pp, 76K) guide for its partners.
- The EPA's Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator allows you to translate greenhouse gas reductions into a more commonplace term.