Materials Technology@TMS: Web-Link Information

Materials Technology@TMS is a sister organisation of my life-long professional Materials Institute, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) both house collaborative websites designed to be a professional knowledge networks.

Online technical communities have been developed to allow materials professionals from all over the world to network, share knowledge, and utilize resources. As such, you are welcome to add the power of Materials Technology@TMS to your site's pages.

"Developed and managed by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Materials Technology@TMS is the on-line technical community environment developed by and for materials scientists and engineers. Here, materials professionals can network, share knowledge, and utilize resources in technology-specific communities through discussion boards, databases, research, articles, proceedings, newswires, and other informational tools."

NB. IOM3's Materials World"> can also be followed on Twitter. More? Get news by joining for free Materials Twibes by Richard Cooper IOM3's webmaster.

These links and more may be accessed on the RHS Menu. under the heading "Materials Science & Eng. Free Online Journals-Resources"

European professionals may opt to join both societies via IOM3 with eTMS at a benificial rate.

Coal Research Forum_Minerals and Coal Mining Concerns, Efforts and Progress Tackling Global Energy and GHG-CO2 Emissions Challenges

Today, I wish to take a couple of minutes of your time to bring to the fore the Advanced and Mature Minerals and Mining Communities concerns and efforts, pitting their wits to face the global energy and greenhouse gas emissions challenges represented here by the focus on CO2.

I shall largely base my enquiry upon the rich resource offered by the Coal Research Forum (CRF).

Such is the abundance of high quality freely available online CRF contributions, that, I can only trust many of you, globally will help me read, digest and bring the best "Options For the Future for a Global Future " to the fore.

In previous posts, I started to dress the Venn Diagramme presentation, whose focus is CO2-GHG reduction , posting briefly, too briefly on the green power field or universe, and on the planetary UN-blue metallurgical, materials science, industries and markets field_universe. Now we shall take a rapid look at things from the coal, minerals and mining perspective.

To help a reader new to the field come to grips rapidly with these issues, I find the divisional structure of the forum useful cf below.

Divisions

1. Advanced Power Generation.
2. Coal Characterisation.
3. Coal Conversion.
4. Coal Preparation.
5. Combustion.
6. Environment.
Divisions, Division Chairmen and contact details

Conference Meeting Titles and the freely available Online Papers are obviously of incredible assistance. Main Title Headings and full links to papers are given below.
-Coal Preparation Division Seminar.
- EU Conferences on Coal Research and its Applications
-Industrial perspective.
-Research Events
-Combustion/Coal Characterisation/Coal Conversion Divisional Meeting.
-Understanding the Low Carbon Economy.
-Zero Emissions Power Plant, with Annual Meetings of the Coal Research Forum and the Coal Utilisation Subject Group.
-Recent Developments in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Link to all the conference papers listed under the above headings

More information and global links from The Minerals Engineering Society...

NB. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs...!

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