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Documents, Tools & Resources
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, Jan. 2009) (207 pp, 1.2MB, 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
- Active Underground Mines
- Abandoned Underground Mines
- Active Surface Mines
- CMM Recovery and Utilization
- Ventilation Air Methane (VAM)
- U.S. Policy and Finance
- International
EPA Tools and Resources
- Coal Mine Methane Project Cash Flow Model Beta Version enables you to evaluate the potential economic viability of recovering and beneficially using CMM at a specific site in one of six ways.
- Interactive Unit Converter allows you to convert figures among the many different units of measure in reference to CMM, power generation, etc.
- Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator allows you to translate greenhouse gas reductions into a more commonplace term.
External Tools and Resources
- 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.
- World Coal Institute
- U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Data Retrieval System for U.S. mines
- IEA Clean Coal Centre Web site
- Australia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization