Contents: 1. Coal : basic and industrial fuel’s quality is declining. 2. Quality and its Relevance to Coal Producing and Utilizing Industries. 3. Paralysis of Coal and Ash Deposition in Coal-Fired Boilers. 4. Factors Influencing the Combustion of Lignite. 5. Metallurgical Coke for the Blast furnace, its Quality and Tradability. 6. Coke and Blast Furnace Reactions. 7.Impacts of Coal Burning Rate fluctuations on the Cement Clinker. 8. Quality Based Coal Trading: Worldwide Practices. 9. Transportation and Storage of R.O.M. Coal.10. Quality Control of Coal by Blending. 11. Sampling of Coal Beds for Analysis. 12. Principles of Sampling of Coal For Quality Characteristics. 13. On Line Analysis of Coal Quality. 14. An Application to Statistical Quality Control of R.O.M. Coal. 15. ISO 9000 Series Quality System for Coal Production and Supply. 16. Introduction to Six Sigma and Quality Functions Deployment : Special Reference to Coal Mine and User Plant Relationship. 17. The North American Coal Sampling Systems and Quality Control Procedures. 18. The Test Standardization Method: The South African Sampling and Analysis of Coal and Coke.19. Methods of Determination of Forms of Sulfur in Coal. 20. Sized Coal Degradation at Transfer Points.

The book features all of many more so as to capture the State of the art of coal combustion quality at the mine, power, steel and cement plants. Arguably, this is the first book of its kind where a unification of the requirements of different plants producing and using coal is defined .It provides both technical and managerial aspects of coal quality assurance and deliverance.