Contents: 1. Environmental issues of coal mining and thermal power generation with special reference to Orissa/R.C. Das. 2. Areawise Environmental Quality Management (AEQM) plan for Dhanbad-Bokaro area/P.V. Sridharan and D. Luthra. 3. Microbial population and activity in fly-ash amended soil/S. Basu, G.R. Choudhury, N. Behera and P.C. Mishra. 4. Studies on trace elements and radioactivity of coal and fly-ash from Thermal Power Station at Talcher/V. Vijayan, V.S. Ramamurty and S.N. Behera. 5. Role of thermal power plant fly ash in acid rain/K.S. Gupta, S.V. Manoj and M.Sharma. 6. Pollution control and environmental management practices in the National Thermal Power Corporation/B.N. Ojha and T.K. Dhar. 7. Growth and yield of crops and vegetable in soil amended with coal-fired fly-ash/P.K. Sarangi, S.S. Pati, S.K. Sahu, T.K. Mishra, P.C. Mishra and M.C. Dash. 8. Environmental problems due to coal mining and utilisation: the scenario in Orissa/A. Naik. 9. Expansion in coal mining and its environmental implications/S.P. Banerjee. 10. Selective mining and integrated use of power coal: a new approach in waste management and pollution control/S. Sen, M. Sen and N. Moitra. 11. Air pollution due to Thermal Power Plant – a case study/S.R. Majee, P.K. Sinha and M.K. Ghose. 12. Environmental impact of coal utilisation/K.C. Sahu. 13. An environmental overview of Indian Coal Industry and its porgrammes/A.N. Sinha and B.P. Singh. 14. National Thermal Power Corporation experiences in ash utilization/A. Trehan, R. Krishnamurty and A. Kumar. 15. A study on mineralogical transformations in coal ash during combustion of coals from Godavary Valley, Andhra Pradesh/P.V.L. Prasad Rao and M. Jaganadha Rao. 16. Temporal and spatial variation of Cu, Zn, Ni and Co in the wetlands around two Thermal Power Stations in Madhya Pradesh, India/K. Sankaran Unni. 17. Coal as an adsorbent for Mordant Blue 13/G.S. Gupta and H. Sekhar. 18. Impact of coal mining effluents on the primary productivity of waterbodies and fish farming in and around the Chitra Coalfields in Santal Pargana, Bihar/A. Kumar. 19. Surface and groundwater quality in the coalmine areas of Chhindwara district, Madhya Pradesh/K.S. Unni and A. Fole. 20. Accumulation of heavy metals in Eucalyptus, Acacia and Melia growing on coalmine spoil irrigated with raw domestic sewage/S.K. Maiti.
"This book is the outcome of the National Conference on Pollution Control and Management in Coal Mining and Thermal Power Plants organized in Sambalpur University by the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Earth Sciences during December 1996. Out of some 50 papers presented in the Conference, only 20 papers have been selected for the book which are most relevant to the subject of coal mining methods, coal chemistry, environmental problems due to coal mining and handling, problem of mine filling, coal combustion methods, air pollution problems, fly ash and bottom ash disposal problems and utilization of fly ash in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. This volume will be an important reference book for planners, technocrats, scientists and other research workers engaged in the field of coal mining and coal based thermal power plants and for nonprofessionals interested in safeguarding the environment." (jacket)
